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It is becoming increasingly obvious to all onlookers that Canada’s Conservative government’s ‘best-before’ date has expired. With a government rife with false entitlement, failing economics, ruling by ideology and trampling on human rights, Canadians want change. In an overly long election period of their design, the Conservatives are now in free fall.
The only remaining problem is whether there are any candidates for the Conservative Party who are worth paying to go to Ottawa? Key ministers have deserted the ship. There is little talent in the current batch of candidates for the party leader to even select an effective shadow cabinet.
From day one of the campaign, the Conservatives have been touting their economic smarts. They even pre-distributed payments to wealthy households on the assumption that they had their votes. These people might have the government’s money but they know that the government will tax much of it back next year.
And with their supposed economic smarts, why were the Conservatives so reluctant to call a recession a recession? They blame everyone but themselves for the economic problems. They believed that they could put all their investments in the tar sands and left nothing to fall back on. Not even a bank would want to hire these guys.
You would certainly never hire them to protect the environment or teach science.
As things stand at this time, there are few safe seats for the Conservatives east of the Ottawa River. Ontario has 15 new electoral districts this time but few of the new or old seats are safe for the Conservatives. Despite the residual support in the West, there is little likelihood of the Conservatives holding 100 seats in the next parliament.
The pivotal point in the campaign to-date was the confrontation of Conservative Leader Stephen Harper about the graphic scene of a three-year old Syrian child drowned and washed up on a beach. Mr. Harper used the question to promote his war wherein he bombs the sand dunes of the Middle East in his quest to destroy the brigands who call themselves an Islamic State.
If Stephen Harper was really serious in his ill-considered quest for justice in Syria, he would be bombing Syria’s Bashar al Assad. The Syrian President has directed the killing of far more civilian adults and children in the country’s civil war than the late comers of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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