- WHEREAS crime is at its lowest point in 25 years; WHEREAS violent crime has steadily dropped over the last 15 years; WHEREAS car thefts have decreased in the last 10 years; And WHEREAS youth crime has dropped; BE IT RESOLVED THAT all candidates must continue to play on peoples fears. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT all candidates must increase budgets and staffing as well as changing or enlarging the definition of crime. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT all proposed courses of action must ignore the root causes of crime.
- If the public service has need to speak during a campaign, they must shut-up. Speaking provides information. Information can be interpreted in ways which the government does not want for the electorate. Governments speak for Canadians and do not need Canadians speaking or thinking for themselves.
- A long sentence is often hard to understand. It is often even harder to understand when the person constructing the sentence is trying to sound intelligent. The use of long sentences generally is a direct result of the speaker forgetting and ignoring the audience. Case in point: Stephen Harper and Prison Sentences.
- The European and Asian markets are tumbling. The US has a crisis. But, from his armchair, Harper does not see any problems in Canada and offers several dollars a month more to parents. Because, as we all know, when the world burns you want to be able to choose which daycare you can’t afford.
- The way to stop the world from burning is to slow the growth (Cons), tax the polluter (Libs), sell the atmosphere (NDP), use bandaids (Bloc), tax the polluter and the commuter (Greens). And while these solutions are more complex than I describe, none of them come close to dealing with the complexity of the issue itself.
