Dean's Blog

Well, it seems over there in Ontario, Mayor Miller is in a wee bit of a snit. I won’t make light of the circumstances that have stoked his fire, as shootings by criminals should not be tolerated.

But that is exactly the case. Mr Miller has a blanket solution for his problem, and that is to take away all the handguns in Canada. Well, all the ones that they can find, which would be all the ones that have been registered, meaning, legally purchased and owned handguns, owned by law abiding citizens.

This approach doesn’t make sense to me. It doesn’t remove the illegal unregistered handguns, possessed by unlicensed individuals. It does well to punish those who obey the law, but does nothing to those who ignore the law. It’s the typical backwards thinking that seems to permeate politics.

Crime Control, not Gun Control, seems to be a better solution Mr Miller. I am glad I don’t live in your city.

So the possibility of a Federal election looms on the horizon, with party leaders taking smack all over the country. I don’t usually talk about politics, because it really is a losing battle in Canada, but I’ll indulge myself a bit.

From my view, there is no party that is going to get a majority vote if an election comes in the next 6 months. It’s going to be another minority or coalition government. Canadians easily forget the past and take a reactionary view of what is currently going on, and of course, all the parties make claims that they will fix it, make it better. There is very little to reinforce what has been established. Case in point, there is a lot of anti-liberal people making noise these days, in relation to the Ad-Scam scandal, or whatever you want to call it. This gives other parties a chance to pretend to be heros, such as the badly tarnished Conservatives, who handed us the GST and then lost official party status following the 1993 Kim Campbell debacle, and only managed 12 seats in 2000. After merging with the leftover Reform party, they have status again, but are not presenting solutions and maintenance. Does it really matter? Our Government blows hundreds of millions of our dollars on crap programs and policy every day and no one complains, just because the media hasn’t made a big deal out of it. The occasional newspaper driven witchhunt intended to topple the existing regime is an old and tired method of proving that it’s really not the election campagin or past performance that sways voters, it’s the editors sitting at a desk somewhere.


The Bloc Quebecios will never have more votes than they have seats in Quebec. So they will always be the opposing thorn in the side of a Canadian government. What? Do you think we’re going to vote you into majority so that you can screw us all over for the sake of one province? We get enough of that with Ontario already, being the biggest piglet at the sow, and the deciding vote. Face the facts, all party members have an individual agenda. They’re in it to help their friends start their business and make deals. The parties all have their own agenda, and on top of that, the party leader has his or her own agenda. It’s about controlling and spending the money and that all adds up to a conflict of ideas and resources, and often bowing down to bleeding heart lobby groups.

The NDP party will never have a majority, there aren’t enough hippies in the country to vote them in.