I am very mad. I just dashed off this email to the Prime Minister and my local (Con) MP about 2 new crappy things the govt has done, and it made me feel only marginally better: Dear Prime Minister Harper, Just when we thought your government couldnt stoop any lower, we find out your tax auditors are targeting charitable groups that apparently threaten your world view. OK, David Suzuki wants to protect the environment, and your party just wants to destroy it for a few short-term bucks, so that makes sense. PEN Canada promotes freedom of speech, something your party clearly finds threatening, so that makes sense too. But the United Church?? A Christian church, no less (though I realize not a fundamentalist Christian church, the kind you favour, and are probably NOT having any of those audited)? What exactly is your problem? And meanwhile, we discover youve gotten rid of the awards named for social-justice advocate Thérèse Casgrain, after already taking her off the $50 bill, so youre trying to write her out of history. How much more Orwellian can it get? Shame, shame on you. YOU and your government, however, will go down in history as the worst our country has ever endured. Yours truly, M.L. Hammond news.nationalpost/2014/07/28/therese-casgrain-feminist-icon-written-out-of-public-history-under-stephen-harpers-government/
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:57:41 +0000