Whooee! Well friends an' foes, ol' JimBobby's chewin' nails an' fartin' tacks. The big, strong men-in-chicken-suits have pushed their chickenshit weight around and managed to make sure the gal I adore, Earth Mother Lizzie May, got excluded from the televised debates.
Nevermind that polls have consistently shown that 77% of Canadians want the Green leader in the debates. Nevermind that 660,000 Canadians voted Green in 2006. Nevermind that the Green Party is one of only 5 parties to receive federal funding. Nevermind that Canadian taxpayers shell out over $1 million a year to the Greens. Nevermind that the Greens run candidates in all provinces.
Nevermind democracy, you wimp chickenshit bastards.
Harper, Layton and Duceppe have conspired to deny Canadians a chance to see the leader of the only growing party in a head to head debate on national television. Harper, Layton and Duceppe do not care what Canadians want. Harper, Layton and Duceppe are enemies of democracy.
Did I mention that they're a buncha chickenshit bastards?
The Greens are running against Liberals in 305 of Canada's 308 ridings. How can they be the same as Liberals when they are running against Liberals in so many ridings?
The Greens have at least 29 major policy planks that are unique to the Green Party. These are policies that, in many cases, are diametrically opposed to Liberal policy. Here's a list of those uniquely Green policies:
- “Income-splitting” to reduce the tax burden on middle class couples.
- A continuing role in Afghanistan but within a transformed U.N. mission, legalizing and regulating the poppy trade for medicinal use, and bringing in more Islamic nations into the peace-keeping, security efforts in Southern Afghanistan through the U.N.
- An end to asbestos mining and export to developing countries. (truly outrageous that for all the talk about asbestos, only the Green Party is prepared to call for banning mining and export.)
- The phase out of nuclear power and uranium mining.
- The reform of the Divorce Act to make family law less of a battleground.
- To launch a national dialogue toward a Guaranteed Livable Income.
- The legalization of marijuana, to be controlled, regulated and taxed.
- The six month notice to get out of NAFTA with immediate re-negotiation of key provisions.
- Support for open source software and net neutrality.
- National shift to GE-free, organic agriculture and regional food self-sufficiency.
- Creation of a federal Department of Tourism
- Protect drinking water at its source (no other party will do this--the BC NDP jailed citizens for trying to protect drinking water).
- Amend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to enshrine the right of Canadians to an ecological heritage that includes breathable air and drinkable water.
- Pass federal legislation to prohibit bulk water exports.
- Establish a National Parks completion budget; protect at least half of Canada's Boreal Forest in a network of large interconnected protected areas as called for in the 2003 Boreal Forest Conservation Framework
- Zero waste, including laws requiring lifetime stewardship of products
- A cancer prevention strategy that includes a toxic-free Canada -- taxing toxics and pollution; ending the production and use of the most dangerous toxic chemicals by 2012.
- Pan-Arctic waste management strategy.
- Shift funding from mega-freeway projects like Pacific Gateway that encourage urban sprawl and use the funds instead for public transit.
- Implement Genuine Progress Indicator (or Index of Well-being)
- Enact "living will" legislation to give person the choice to die with dignity.
- Explore establishing a new crown corporation to bulk purchase and dispense generic drugs - to bring down the costs of pharmacare.
- Pass pay equity legislation; immediately implement full pay equity for women employed in the federal sector and develop tax incentives for companies to meet gender and pay equity.
- Press professional societies to remove unnecessary barriers recognizing the professional credentials of immigrants.
- Canada must support and implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Revamp CIDA to focus on developing community-based green economies, poverty alleviation and programmes to combat and adapt to climate change.
- Declare Canada a nuclear free zone.
- Reform WTO, IMF and the World Bank, placing these under the authority of the UN General Assembly and shift the direction of international trade away from free trade to fair trade.
- Scrap the SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership).
Today is a dark day for Canadian democracy. The blame goes squarely to Harper, Layton and Duceppe. I will not watch the debates between these tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumbasses. Craven cowards who used their collective might to thwart democratic debate. Bastards! Dirty, rotten, chickenshit bastards!
JimBobby
