Politicians

The federal election is underway, and many of our aspiring politicians seem hell bent on racing into oblivion. Two New Democrats Party candidates (this is our federal Socialist Party) here in BC have had to drop out of the race because of videos showing them smoking pot. One did it whilst driving the Sea to Sky highway between Vancouver and Whistler (apparently he was also dropping a tab or two of LSD at the same time). A dangerous route even when totally sober.




A Conservative cabinet minister joked about the "death of a thousand cuts, a thousand cold cuts". Unfortunately, this was on the heals of the 17th death from listeriosis, blamed on a bacteria to be found in processed meats. Bad as it sounds, the man was (and still is) the Minister of Agriculture. Go figure.

The Liberal Party is captained by a man (university professor) who cannot speak English very well. They even use voice overs on his TV ads, although they do let him say something at the end of each one that contains the word Canada - I can't understand the rest.

There seems to be a wonderful prospect for fun in the upcoming Leaders Debate on the TV. We will have a Conservative leader pushing for greater tax cuts, promoting a balanced budget over jobs, and building more prisons to house all of the dregs of society he wants to put behind bars. (I do seem to remember a lady PM somewhere who steered much the same course). We have a Liberal leader no one can understand, pushing a Green Party agenda with a carbon tax nobody wants; a Green Party leader that seems to want to be a Liberal, pushing a socialist agenda; a Separatist leader (Bloc de Quebecois) who only wants one thing (guess what?), and who speaks much better English than the Liberal leader; and an NDP leader who can't see the issues for all the smoke left behind by his fast departing candidates.

I can hardly wait. I know this is similar to what happens to our neighbour to the south (they still speak of pit bulls, pigs and lipstick), but does this happen in any other civilized country? I wonder.