Kings and Tyrants

It is time for Canadians to serious think about whether this present government is acceptable or even tolerable anymore. We elected this government with a minority mandate to have a more open and clean government. Such is the Tories promise but what we have is quite the opposite. This government is closed, dictatorial and underhanded. If the problem with Chretien and Martin was that they acted like they were kings, Harper acts like a ancient Greek tyrant. Kings least try to appear just and open to consultation. Tyrants make no such pretense and use any means necessary to exercise their wills. The ‘debate’ of Canadian involvement in Afghanistan is just the most recent example. If we, as citizens of this country, and our representatives in Parliament are not given ample time and information about issues as important as sending troupes into danger, what kind of democracy do we have? What kind of Prime Minister do we have? If the parties in Ottawa are unwilling to voice their objections and fight this dictator, we must bring it to them. If indeed part of the reasoning for the secrecy and underhandedness of this recent ‘debate’ is to cozy up to the Bush administration as the Toronto Star suggested, then our soldiers’ blood may be sold down the river to serve a master not of our own. And that, no Canadian should let slide.