Archive for December, 2008

Current Tunage: Project 86 – This Time Of Year
What a wonderful Christmas song!

Tonight I wrote my first (ever) letter to my Member of Parliament for the Ajax-Pickering riding, Mark Holland of the Liberal Party. I don’t think I’ve ever talked politics here before, and this isn’t going to be partisan, necessarily. More just… “What are they thinking!?”. I share it with you in the hopes that you, too, will email your MP (and maybe even the Governor General) about this “Coalition Government” which may be on our doorsteps.

Dear Mark (and the Liberal Party, for that matter),

With regard to the recent Letter to Canadians from your party along with the NDP and Bloc.

Although it is true that a “majority” of Canadians voted for the parties represented in the “coalition government”, none of those votes were FOR a coalition government, but for the individual parties which would seek to comprise it. To think that voters support such a course of action is a serious betrayal of Canadians’ trust, and to attempt to subvert the political process in this way reflects very poorly on the Liberal, NDP, and (unsurprisingly) Bloc views on our Democracy.

It should go without saying (but, apparently does not) that forming a government with the SEPARATIST Bloc is ill-advised. Regardless of the circumstances which might suggest such a course of action, to do so is to make a “deal with the devil” the likes of which our country (and perhaps even the Liberal and NDP parties) may never recover from. By making alliance and alignment with separatists, other participating parties will show that they do not truly care about a united Canada and instead value their own political agendas vastly more than our nation’s wholeness.

Further, to (soon) vote non-confidence based on the Tory government’s “inaction” when they haven’t even had the opportunity to attempt to pass a budget seems to me action that is not of wise, prudent competence, but of political positioning and endangering our already complicated economic situation.

Although it is true that Canadians would resent being sent back to the polls so soon after October 15th, to think that allying with the Bloc and making power moves in this way is a superior course of action is foolish.

Finally, what makes this “coalition” think that the Hon. Stéphane Dion, who can’t even lead his party (by his own admission), should lead the country?

With all due respect, the present financial crisis hasn’t come up following the election, but rather began duringit, and Canadians voted in a Conservative minority. It is presumptuous to think that the solution to perceived problems with the Conservative plan is to overthrow them – would it not be a wiser and more prudent (as you hope to be) to work with the minority government towards finding better financial solutions rather than creating a political nightmare?

Those are my thoughts, sir. I entrust them to you and I hope you will consider this when you vote next Monday. Is it really worth sending Canadians back to the polls or “getting into bed” with the Seperatists? The TSX has spoken already (and will likely continue to), and based that as well as all of the above, I think this course of action is foolish, unwise, and likely to accomplish little but empower the Seperatist movement, cripple our economy further, and (last but not least) damage the Liberal and NDP parties in the long-term.

I do not wish any of these things on Canada.

Thank you for your hard work on our behalf.

Jerry Bolton
[address omitted here on the blog, for my own sake]
[GTA], ON
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