However, she shocked me when she joined the Conservatives.

I love this country. My grandfather fought in WWI (at Vimy Ridge among others)and served in WWII, while my father served in Europe in WWII. My step-mother’s uncle was the finance minister that brought us through the war debt free.

However, we have arrived at a point where it is more important, and less morally offensive, to fatten the pockets of political friends than it is to take care of our veterans, properly supply our soldiers, or properly take care of the sick and elderly.
We have a gun registry that does not work but only cost a billion + to fund. We had a scandal in Human Resources that cost 2 billion +, and we have adscam and that doesn’t even account for the waste and mismanagement that occurs.
We have a public health care system that is totally deficient, I know, because I saw it at work when my grandaughter was gravely ill.
The reason I am down is that this isn’t going to improve. As my children and grandchildren grow older, the pigs at the trough will become more numerous, and their take will increase. They will become more adept at hiding their scullduggery (just look at the recent bill introduced to give the finance minister more discretionary funds)and no one will speak up.
We are Canadian. We don’t complain. In fact, we don’t do much of anything when it comes to politics. We let the press determine our priorities and then go along for the ride. Stand up for principle and you will be laughed and scorned at.
We are only going to survive this kind of impassionate idolatry so long before we having nothing left.
I wish I could tell you how I really feel. :)

Also, re: Belinda – I agree with Kim. Jessica Simpson is a bright girl who acts like a ditz for entertainment and money.
Stronach on the other hand, tries to act intelligent and constantly looks like a ditz. She is a classic case of a narcissist. Look at her life. Can’t keep relationships and thinks that seeing her kids occasionally is good enough (and she has custody).
She leaves the Conservative Party because it is wrong to align with the Block on a non-confidence vote, and goes to the party that has made the Bloc so powerful because of it’s corruption. That is real clear thinking.

Glad to see you finally go things worked out to at least post. We’ve missed you ever since I destroyed all the old posts.

And Conservative, Liberal, NDP,etc etc they are all self-interested and change their views whatever suits them. Mulroney sold us out to the American economy with free trade (yeah free trade, for who? certainly not for us!) and so I don’t hold much hope the conservatives would do any better. All parties have SOME good things about them, but unfortunately it’s humans running the show so most of them fail extremely. Paul Martin isn’t great, but I think he is a tad improvement over Chretien. And I doubt Harper would do any better, For some reason the idea of him being PM scares the heck out of me. Wolf in sheep’s clothing is what I think. But then I think they all are. Belinda Stronach changing parties doesn’t surprise me in the least. She’s a politician. They do it all the time. The only real standards they have are related to getting into power.

In spite of this we do have a pretty good country :) At least we don’t see our Political Leaders as being almost deity, unlike my mother who thinks Bush is the greatest thing to have happened to the western world and considers herself republican (and please tell me, how does that work???..she is a Canadian living in Canada.)