If you need any more proof that the Conservatives are full of bigots, I will show you something from my own backyard:
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Social issues dominate another Tory stop
By DARREN YOURK
Globe and Mail Update
The latest party controversy hit Wednesday when Frank Luellau, a Conservative candidate in Kitchener-Conestoga, told The Globe and Mail that he supports "the biblical teaching that (homosexuality) is not a natural kind of relationship."
Mr. Luellau also defended the policy of his former organization, the Canadian Council of Christian Charities, to fire, or not hire, any employee or volunteer found to be in a homosexual relationship.
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This is just icing on the cake. Last night on The National, Stephen Harper clearly said, for all to hear: the Charter of Rights does not include protection for sexual orientation.
This, despite the fact that (a) the courts have read in that right for over 15 years, and (b) like all constitutions, the Charter is an ever-evolving, organic document. The US Bill of Rights was read as authorizing "separate yet equal" until Brown v. Board of Ed in 1954. Still, we have already established that Harper, his Conservatives, and his supporters, are all bigots, so something as little as the constitution won't get in the way. Harper's morals are as stony and static as his hairdo!
Even my father, who has voted Reform/Alliance for the past 10 years, has decided not to vote Conservative, totally disgusted by Luellau's prejudice. If he can see the light, why can't anyone else?
Money, money, money....NOT
If being king of the Bigot Party isn't enough to stop people from voting for Stephen Harper, perhaps his plan to throw Canada into our own version of a Reagan/Bush deficit will cause people to think twice.
Jeffrey Simpson beautifully dissects the Conservative's (farcical) economic platform in today's Globe. Here's a taste:
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The Conservative platform is already more expensive than the Liberals' or NDP's. It's based on the rosiest of economic forecasts, drives up spending on big-ticket items such as health and defence, drives down revenues through tax cuts, conspicuously does not itemize where other spending will have to be cut, & doesn't even mention some of the promises party leader Stephen Harper has made on the campaign trail, such as repairing what he accepts is the "fiscal imbalance" between Ottawa & the provinces, the repairing of which would cost Ottawa billions.
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So, between spitting in the face of some Canadians, and spending the money of all Canadians like it was water, I'd say electing the Conservatives and Stephen Harper is the equivalent of planning a leisurely journey to the newly discovered black hole in the centre of Supernova 1986J.
Hopefully, I'm not making this too difficult a choice...
