About "gay marriage"

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The Canadian government is, without a doubt, the most corrupt and dishonest of all current governments in major industrial countries: and bear in mind that when you are competing against Bush, Berlusconi, Chirac, and Blair, that is one Hell of a title to have. But as an Italian citizen in my forties, I thought I had seen the height of corruption and dishonesty in the Craxi age - and Paul Martin's bunch of bandits have the late Mr.Craxi totally whomped. For one thing, there is the purchase of representatives. I had heard of such things going on in the Pakistani Parliament - till they passed a law forbidding members of Parliament from changing parties - but it had never even occurred to me that it might happen in a non-banana-republic state, and certainly no Italian politician had ever offered another money or inducements to switch parties. But Paul Martin's bandits have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, doing precisely that, at least once, and the evidence is overwhelming that they did it at least another time. Compared to this, which makes a mockery of elected government, even their notorious financial scandals become a comparatively minor matter.

Paul Martin and his party of gangsters should have been in jail long ago. Instead, they govern a major Western country - something they have in common with Chirac and Berlusconi, who both rose to the highest office of State as an alternative to going to jail. They are supported by a corrupt Press and by an utterly degraded CBC - a corporation that makes the BBC look like a model of objectivity and openness. And it is from this lofty moral perch that they have imposed "gay marriage" upon the country.

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The Canadian government is, without a doubt, the most corrupt and dishonest of all current governments in major industrial countries:

I wouldn't say the most. Because I don't know how the current governments are.

But yes, it is pretty bad.

But that is what happens when you have a split Canada, but the people in the West (read: Alberta... yeah, that's it, basically, what, 2 million out of 30?) are no match for the population numbers in the East.

Yes, if we had an election, the Liberals would certainly form at least another minority government, despite all they have done (and not done). That is because Stephen Harper is proving himself to be an idiot (although promising at first, especially after Stockwell Day) and the East will never accept him as a viable leader. They like to stick with what they know. And they know the devil. And they (grudgingly or not) accept it.

The Liberals have moved to the center, it's true. And that has made the remaining parties have to move far left, or far right, to show that they are different in their thinking. But then they try to make their platform (and, at times, what platform?) appealing and it collapses under them.

I will be glad when this chapter of our nation's government is closed. It's embarrassing.

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I would say that what really stunned me were, one, the purchase or attempted purchase of representatives, and, two, the juggling with parliamentary time and repeated breach of promises (for that matter, I am told "gay marriage" was not even on the Liberal electoral platform in the last elections). God knows I have no time for Blair or Berlusconi, but I doubt whether either of them would sink so low. That is why I said that the Grits are worse than any leader of an advanced country I can think of. Purchasing the allegiance of opposition members, in particular, is banana-republic stuff.

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And there really is nothing quite as funny as the Conservatives fuming about the Bloc. Somehow I find it very hard to feel sorry for them.