“It’s Democracy, not Democrazy!”
While CTV is misleading viewers by showing images of a smallish Toronto pro-rally with Dion as “speaker” with a big heading saying: “Rally in Ottawa” (the heading was referring to the on-the-phone reporter reporting from Ottawa), and Global is showing us an interesting story on how coalitions work so well throughout the world and specifically how Arabs and Jews are having just a grand ol’ time in Israel with their coalition, I returned from the rally in Ottawa where there were at least 5000 people, to find CTV Newsnet calling it “hundreds”.
We were there, standing in the cold sans union-produced signs, listening to several speakers, wishing we had a Horton’s. We laughed when Pierre Pollievre addressed us as “Mr. Speaker”, and we had a moment of silence remembering fallen soldiers and the 14 women that were murdered at L’Ecole de Polytechnique. Our hand-made signs were all the more charming than their professional dues-backed cousins, some funny, some angry. The best one I saw said: It’s Democracy, not Democrazy!”. I think that just says it all. It was a hodge-podge or ordinary people united by their convictions. Old and young, we all came out to do our own little bit for our country.
Let’s hope it helped.
Copyright 2010 ERWIN GERRITS. All Rights Reserved.
3 COMMENTS
1 Bec
Please tell your posters to put their”home made” signs on their lawns…lets make this real! A real election all over again. You have my permission to delete this comment so that the useless “purchasers” of democracy do not get any NEW ideas. After all they have nothing fresh, emotional or real to offer.
2 Lib/Con
I voted Conservative last time, probably next time to. But I’m happy all this is going to produce a budget that will spend us out of this economic recession. We need to spend like Obama wants to and Europe already is. And I think Harper has learned his lesson and will bring in such a budget, even though there are radicals that don’t want to do what Obama and Europe are doing.
3 Powell Lucas
Spend us out of this economic redession?
The U.S., European, Asian, and Canadian governments poured over a trillion dollars into the banking system and the banks still won’t lend. So much for loosening up credit markets.
Pouring huge sums of money into the economy through infrastructure programs will do little or nothing since most of the major works of this type haven’t even gone through the engineering stage. This money will go to pay for every goofy project the municipalities and provinces can dream up. It will be spent on things like the new gym that Calgary wants to install for its employees; a non-idea that had to be dropped from the city budget when taxpayers rose up and protested a 25 percent tax increase.
Maybe it will be spent to allow Toronto city council to hire more inspectors to check the amount of shade in city parks.
Perhaps it will finance the insane idea proposed by Red Deer’s city administration to install a series of canals through a new multi-function development proposed along the Red Deer River. A proposal to make Red Deer the Venice of the west…in the middle of a semi-desert yet!
Oh, yeah. Lets spend our way to prosperity…or should the correct term be bankruptcy.
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