I am Canadian… I know, shocking isn’t it?
The impending election in Canada has me thirsting for change. There is on’t one party that doesn’t have policy that is directly opposed to the teachings of the Church. That is who I will vote for… the Conservative Party of Canada (Liberal).
Many Catholic Canadians have traditionally voted Liberal, but I forgive them, because I must believe that at one point the term had some association with liberty, and not libertinism. However, its time to start voting conscientiously… and that means that the Liberal Party (socialist) should be deprived of the votes of all Catholics.
I honestly don’t know many people who would actually vote for the New Democratic Party (Socialist). But, apparently some people do, or they wouldn’t be on national television all the time… right?
The Bloc Quebecois is really just a very large lobby group for the Canadian province of Quebec. They are a mix of all of the above parties, but what they really want is to opt out of the Federation and become their own country. I’m okay with that, but then, I never bought into that whole Federalist thing… I’m more of a small state, and even smaller government, guy.
Then there’s the Green Party… what can I say?
There are the issues: abortion, healthcare, homosexual marriage, taxes, Kyoto, gun registry, government reform (to stop the corruption that the Liberal Party is now famous for), and education. All of these are addressed in different ways by each party. Here’s how the Liberals and the Conservatives fare on these issues.
The Liberals are for abortion, for public healthcare only (apparently competition in a partially private healthcare scenario would somehow cause unfair treatment of the poor… which is more important than their lives. I have an analogy to help people understand why this is false reasoning, but I won’t get into it now), for homosexual marriage, not consistent on taxes (but still haven’t removed the temporary war tax that they promised to remove over twelve years ago), for the Kyoto agreement (in theory), for gun registry (even after literally billions have been wasted on it without results), for government reform (as long as it doesn’t mean that they have to change their habits), and for education (in theory… again, only for the votes, not in practice).
The Conservatives officially are neither for, nor against abortion, but wish to bring it to a vote in the future, so that, in the least, a decisin is come about democratically. They are for a public healthcare system suplimented by a closely regulated private system. They are against homosexual marriage. They want to lower taxes and put more money in Canadians’ pockets. They are against Kyoto, since its conclusions and demands are misproportioned at best, suggesting instead a Canadian solution to the “environmental problem”. They are against the gun registry, since it was a multi-billion dollar exercise in burocracy. They are all for government reform and the shrinking of government so that it doesn’t step on peoples’ toes as much as it does now (which it does… ask anyone who has done their own taxes, or has been caught bartering, etc.). Finally, I am not certain where they stand on education… but one would assume that they would be consistent with their positions taken on the other issues.
All in all I think it will be an interesting campaign. Come late January, I’ll have no problem getting up out of my warm bed to go down to the polls and hand in my ballot.
Up Canada! Down the Liberals!
God bless,
Agricola
