Not a single Liberal or NDPer should be trusted with our vote
A scornful acquaintance asks if I am so prejudiced I do not think there is a single Liberal or New Democrat who deserves to be elected to represent Alberta in the House of Commons.
Now, prejudiced—that’s an interesting word.
The real meaning of which few individuals actually know.
It means simply to “pre-judge” an individual or an event without ever objectively exploring the subject. I never prejudge anyone or anything, for I have an inquisitive nature.
But to the point of the question—despite the ignorance of the English language by the individual who posed it—there really is not a single Liberal or New Democrat candidate in the width and breadth of our province who should be entrusted with our votes.
Any Liberal candidate being elected to serve under Shipping Tycoon Paul Martin and his crew of buccaneers would immediately have to toe the Grit line, which would mean selling out the interests of the men and women of Alberta they were sent to Ottawa to represent.
You don’t think so?
Well, naivete may have its charm in certain cases, but not in this situation.
There is a very good reason—or a bad reason, to be correct—as to why not a single Liberal has been elected to Parliament from Calgary or the whole of southern Alberta since 1968, and why only an occasional Liberal pariah has been elected to Ottawa from Edmonton and northern Alberta since that period.
It is because of the draconian policies of the likes of Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, all of whom have either themselves kicked Albertans in the shins—or ordered their cabinet ministers to do so—on every issue from energy to health care to defence. You do as you are told when you sit in the federal Liberal caucus.
Particularly intolerant of any democratic stirring—or loyalty to an MP’s constituents—is Martin and we saw that in the same-sex marriage vote.
And don’t forget, there are still individuals serving in Martin’s ranks who supported Finance Minister John Turner’s 1974 budget that plundered Alberta’s oil and natural gas royalties and who backed the destructive money-grabbing National Energy Policy, both of which are estimated to have siphoned off $100 billion of the Alberta people’s own money.
Right now, under the Kyoto protocol, there are already regulations being drawn up that would fine our energy companies up to $200 million a time for allegedly not complying with this phoney pact’s climate protection rules.
So we are about to face another onslaught from the Liberals and we surely do not want to have some traitorous Alberta Liberal MP aiding and abetting the coming attack.
Adding to this grim scenario, one has to question why someone of any calibre would run under the banner of a political party and government so steeped in corruption.
Surely, individuals of high ethical standards would stay as far away from anyone connected with the Jean Chretien/Paul Martin regimes as possible.
OK, it’s said some newer Grit candidates hope to change the party and government from the inside: This is specious—it is like a reformer joining up with Al Capone’s gang rather than Elliott Ness’s team to clean up organized crime in Chicago in the 1930s.
As for voting for a New Democrat candidate, Smirkin’ Jack Layton’s insiders have already uttered some hints as to how Canada’s oil and gas companies should be nationalized and run by the government.
That’s Alberta’s oil and gas they are talking about.
Given a chance, or given a wedge to prop up a Martin minority government, the NDPers would push for the takeover of our natural resources, the result of which would be a highly efficient and competitive industry driven into the ground.
We’d find oil and natural gas prices soaring across the nation—and all the benefits that have properly accrued to the Alberta people swept away.
My friends, the only individuals we can trust to truly represent our values in the House of Commons—and fight off nefarious Liberal and New Democrat attacks on our province and our traditions are Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.
Believe me, to vote for any other candidates would be a betrayal of our interests.
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