Throne Speech, October 2007

Today, our Governor General delivered Harper's throne speech. It's unacceptable. I actually didn't get a chance to actually hear the speech, but upon reading an article, I got the summary of it, and there are many things I do not like. Below are the three major ones:

1) Abandoning Kyoto - Ever since Harper took power, he has dilly-dallied about the issue of the environment and creating these excuses how the targets for Kyoto are not realistic. They were realistic when we signed the treaty, and because of Harper's dilly-dallying, as well as his attempts at slowing the process, it is now semi-non realistic. And a few days ago, he had 40% popular vote. Why are Canadians so stupid? You can't have an economy if you have no Earth!

2) The ambiguity on the date of the Afghanistan issue - Even though the Liberals were responsible (supposedly) for sending our troops there, Harper is the one who is keeping them there. We are cleaning up for Bush, because he started the mess, and he expects us to help him finish it. And then we have Harper, who was stupid enough to actually send troops there! He wants to extend our mission to 2011! That's an extra two years!

3) The anti-crime legislation - Don't get me wrong, I believe that crime needs to be dealt with. However, I do not like the age of consent bit... What does age of consent have to with crime? Why the hell do we even talk about this?

However, Stephane Dion is not exactly in the best situation. There is a lot of dissent in his party, and if he votes against the throne speech, then he has to run an election, and he will probably run the Liberals into the ground... But, if he doesn't vote against the throne speech, then he has pretty much sided with the evil government so that he saves his own skin.

Either way, Dion is not in a good situation. I think all the dissident Liberals who don't like him should be all shot. In this time of needing to topple the Conservatives, we are taking our jolly time to bitch within the party.

What scares me the most is that the Conservatives could come back as a majority government... And if that happens, we can see our dollar plummet.