Take off your “lead helmut” and take a really deep look at what has happened, and you’ll see what’s going to happen.

Financial terrorists, the enemy within. Parasites.

Health Care:
As Mr. Obama struggles to bring decent healthcare to all Americans, he faces a great deal of opposition from a specific group of people. Here in Canada, we too are struggling against this same group of people in an effort to retain our public healthcare. These people are known as the “investment class”, their main purpose in life being, to attain “more”. They can also be defined as sociopaths, that being; people who lack that most important ingredient in their persona that defines what it means to be human: The ability to empathize and feel love. Their existence is predicated on gain. There is no room for love or empathy in an avaricious heart. Make no mistake, this is a mental disorder that is infectious, and these people have managed to corrupt our government and lure them into a scheme of a much larger agenda: The privatization of Canada’s healthcare system and the creation of a “perpetual debt”.

There’s a great deal of money in the healthcare business. Unfortunately, in Canada, as in the United Stated, we’ve discovered that a good one third of our healthcare dollars are being lost through corruption schemes, kickbacks, payoffs and shady stock deals. This amounts to billions of dollars annually that could be used for the advancement of health services. Instead, services are constantly being cut back or eliminated and wait times in hospitals can now be as much as eight to ten hours. All in the name of profit. None of this is necessary. There is a viable solution, but the investment class won’t like it, and it seems that they’re “the tail that wags the dog”.

I find it ironic, that the fate of our national healthcare should be put in the hands of group of people who are mentally ill and care nothing for the health and wellness of society; rather, they view the population as just another herd of sheep to be fleeced.

I have a news flash for both the investment and ruling classes from the citizens of this country: We’re not a commodity, we’re not your property, and we’re not for sale.

However, if Harper were to get his majority, don’t be surprised if that BIG C makes a big comeback.

I am ashamed of Mr. Harper and the government insomuch as they have largely abandoned small-c conservatism. I’m also unimpressed by their complicity in creating a new “climate deal” at Copenhagen. It seems they are willing to risk their political base for a green medallion. Time will tell how that plays out.

As for your “financial terrorism” assertion, I am amused but not convinced. Yes, governments have vested financial interests and do seek to encourage businesses to invest in Canada and I’m sure the ruling CPC is as inclined to their causes as are those in Opposition. I see very little difference between the CPC and the LPoC in that regard. But to say that the corporate elite in America have bought our government is a massive and unsubstantiated stretch.

I also disagree with the concept of a manufactured crisis. Yes, there are those who have deftly taken advantage of market conditions, but what good fund managers, banks and traders have not? (That’s how they make their money!)

Beyond that, I do not believe any political party, either stateside or here in Canada, has manufactured an economic collapse with malice aforethought. Did policy have an affect on the slide? For sure. Were policy decisions made with the purpose of precipitating a collapse? That I find hard to believe. Even the Clintonian edict to American banks that forced them to issue risky mortgages, while severely poor policy and unjustifiable government interference in the free market, I do not believe was done with the intention of precipitating a housing crisis.

If you have proof then I’d love to hear it. Right now, though, I think you’re wearing a tinfoil hat.

To Mark Peters – It’s not sarcasm, just an ugly truth. “Financial Terrorism” knows no borders, nor favors any political stripes. Greed rules. A lot of that money that “dissapeared” is being “invested” in Canada, buying politicians. Clear?

Are we going to say that Paul Martin had no ties to industry?
The whole lot of them are corrupt, and yet, I’m not too eager to vote for a non corporatist party like the NDP…
Campaign finance reform is the only way to get people elected by the electorate and not the corporations.

I really must apologize for all Canadians for the performance of our government and Mr. Harper in particular. We’re very ashamed. But you must realize that our government is not really ours. They’re controlled by the corporate elite of America. Not the American government, but the Neo-cons, the financial terrorists who have deliberately created the financial crisis in an effort to depress markets, buy up resources at a discount, and create cheap labour. They’re not interested in saving the planet, just selling it.

Yes, we’re the bad guys, but not by choice. We’re being controlled by financial terrorists, the enemy within. Parasites. They know no borders, have no allegiance and have infected all governments. Again, we’re sorry.

There’s little consolation in knowing that our world leaders will spend eternity in Hell when there’s so much suffering worldwide caused by their incompetence and greed. Can anyone save us?

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I agree with the investigative aspect of your comment and the potential breaches of sovereignty entailed in the draft environmental pacts. But I disagree with avoiding Copenhagen. Leaders have to lead and they have to be present at pivotal conferences like this.

The best we can hope for is a clear and steadfast refusal by the PM to sign Canada on to any pact that hands over policy-making and -enforcement power to supranational organizations and/or involves global carbon trading.

If he can avoid both of these then he’ll win the day and preserve the base. If he fails, I suspect he’ll be in trouble with the base, meaning the CPC will be in much more serious trouble than they will if they don’t sign on to any sort of treaty.

Either way lies further minority governments, or defeat. Copenhagen might serve as a lightning rod for both sides.