Fulford calls this a nothing election. I think he writes about nothing very well.

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Harper has to see how badly he's stepped on his crank. He'll need the voting stats of the coming election to plan for the one after that. I do not like Harper necause he too readily adopted the 'Canada in Afghanistan' plan with Nato. Recall that the US was doing its best under Bush to control Nato and the UN. Canada was severely slapped on its economic wrist in let us know that our non-participation in the "Coalition of the Willing [Keriste what a name!]" was both noticed and disapproved of by Washington. Our government should have at that point responded with a friendly but pointed "Get stuffed!"

There was a time we Canadians seemed to have a common purpose as Canadians. I think over the last five decades we have sold that attitude piece-meal to corporate structures and weakened our nation as a result--NAFTA comes to mind. We need a leader who will campaign and stand with his/her speeches and then follow through on the details. Someone who will re-focus our innervisions for this beautiful and wealthy country. Certainly the children of the poor do not dine at the same table as the various VIPs and CEOs. We have lost part of the dream, and now we even think about privitization of health care because the cost is too much. Bullshit! The system is inefficient, not health care.

Trudeau was I think influenced by the writings of Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong), and during those years he was PM, there did seem to be a growth in our socialist aspect, but more importantly, we seemed to question our politicians more.

Back then I wrote a letter about something or other and sent it to the PM's office. I got a reply that mentioned the issue I'd addressed. For many years now my letters have been answered with "Dear Occupant, your concerns are important to us." And that's the end of it. Sheesh.

We need spirit back, the will to do good for our people and those needing help elsewhere. We need our balls back. We do nothing for our national self-image when we become yes folks for corporations and foreign governments. Unless our goals as Canadians are clear and transparent (sp?) then we are ripe game for others to manipulate. There's too much shit going on behind closed government doors, and I don't like it. (Fell free to tell your friends.) We need back the Pearsons and Diefs, the Trudeaus and the Chretiens. Leaders who spoke what was on OUR minds. We ain't always 'done' right, but we'd always tried to. Why did we stop trying? Why are our soldiers invested more and more in quasi peace keeping missions when there are so many other places that would benefit from this country's expertise in the matter?

I* want my country back: want it taken away from corporate interests that influence Ottawa and the direction we as a people take. And that would require a leader who isn't even on the radar yet.

BM