They're Fed Up!
Yes, and angry too. And betrayed. Life is so unfair. Political life, above all. One has, after all, certain expectations when one throws in one's lot with a group of people with a shared ideology. Is nothing sacred, after all? Here are dissatisfied, bitter groups of individuals who have embraced the Conservative mantle in Canada, feeling completely and utterly let down by their party. They demand nothing less than the dismantling of the Conservative party as it stands, to be restored to its original vision, its purpose.
Representing, needless to say, Conservative values. So, what's got them so riled up? Canadian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan? Nope. They're all right with that. Worried about the current government's less than sterling commitment to battling Global Warming? You kidding, what a red herring! Well, might it be the acceptance by the Conservative government of the status quo on abortion rights? Hell, we forgot about that one, but it's a good one.
Seems there are two issues up front and centre that make these guys see red instead of their normal blue. A federal ban on incandescent lightbulbs. Really. A somewhat transparently clumsy attempt to join the environmentally-worried, holding up incandescent bulbs as a causative in our energy wastefulness, so henceforth it's compact fluorescents all the way. So what? Oh yes, there's the matter of the Shane Doan affair, where Team Canada's hockey captain's credentials as a committed bilingualist and purported racist slurs were called into question. The pain of it.
Hockey Canada officials having to humble themselves before a Commons committee made up of affronted French-Canadians. "That was the most disgusting display of politics I have ever seen in my life," averred Anthony Silvestro, spokesman for these disappointed, furious, Reform-Conservatives, shining white-hot against the Bloc Quebecois: "I just refuse to buy into this - 'Oh, we're going to have to conform, we've got to move to the left, we've got to pander to Quebec'," he fulminated in an interview.
"I'm sick and tired of Quebec, if you want to know the truth." Well, yes. The truth and nothing but the truth, so help you Canada.
Representing, needless to say, Conservative values. So, what's got them so riled up? Canadian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan? Nope. They're all right with that. Worried about the current government's less than sterling commitment to battling Global Warming? You kidding, what a red herring! Well, might it be the acceptance by the Conservative government of the status quo on abortion rights? Hell, we forgot about that one, but it's a good one.
Seems there are two issues up front and centre that make these guys see red instead of their normal blue. A federal ban on incandescent lightbulbs. Really. A somewhat transparently clumsy attempt to join the environmentally-worried, holding up incandescent bulbs as a causative in our energy wastefulness, so henceforth it's compact fluorescents all the way. So what? Oh yes, there's the matter of the Shane Doan affair, where Team Canada's hockey captain's credentials as a committed bilingualist and purported racist slurs were called into question. The pain of it.
Hockey Canada officials having to humble themselves before a Commons committee made up of affronted French-Canadians. "That was the most disgusting display of politics I have ever seen in my life," averred Anthony Silvestro, spokesman for these disappointed, furious, Reform-Conservatives, shining white-hot against the Bloc Quebecois: "I just refuse to buy into this - 'Oh, we're going to have to conform, we've got to move to the left, we've got to pander to Quebec'," he fulminated in an interview.
"I'm sick and tired of Quebec, if you want to know the truth." Well, yes. The truth and nothing but the truth, so help you Canada.
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