Serving Canada

Collectively they appear to lack a sense of proportion, let alone a sense of responsibility to the office they hold. They were elected on the premise that they would involve themselves in activities that would be useful, not detrimental to the well-being of the country and the population. Ever since the Conservatives won their first minority government, the opposition has been champing at the bit, not to work with their political partners in governance, but to unseat them through whatever pretense of high-minded purpose came to hand.

Yet again the voting public is faced with the prospect of another election. One that the opposition as well as the government is well aware there is no real need for, and which they very well know that the public does not want. By fair means or foul, the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois, trailed and helpfully encouraged by the Green Party, have attempted to dislodge the Conservatives from power.

The viscerally offended reaction of the NDP to the Conservatives and the equally visceral belief of the Liberals that they alone are fit to govern seemed to overwhelm any residual intelligence they must surely share among them. The current Conservative-led government under Prime Minister Stephen Harper has conducted itself commendably, and has demonstrated ably that it is eminently capable of leading the country into the future.

The few anomalies that have surfaced with a whiff of untoward behaviour on the part of some associated with the Conservatives have been slight on a comparative scale of unacceptable, mostly inadvertently so, behaviour when set beside the arrogant entitlement leading to gross corruption of the long-reigning Liberals. Yet the Liberals who failed the standards of licit action time and again, take great umbrage at the purported untoward behaviour of their political rivals.

The opposition parties in Canada's Parliament are fixated not with the obligation to display loyalty to the country and dedication to their function as lawmakers, but rather they are obsessed, fatally, with the assault to their sense of the fitness of things that the Conservatives lead the government. Canada and the Canadian taxpayers and voters most surely deserve far better than that they are continually exposed to the juvenile accusations and motley antics of a behaviour-and-issues impaired opposition.

So then, we will be pushed toward a spring election that the public has no stomach for, and which the Conservatives attempted to deflect, but which the opposition all did their utmost to achieve. This, at a time when the country's finances are on the cusp of real recovery, yet still lingering in a tenuous margin of recovery. When on the international scene Canada has been drawn into another conflict, requiring the steady hand of a committed administration. Where we are already burdened with a recovery-related deficit and onerous debt.

We can only hope that this time around the result of the election polls will be far more definitive, finally putting an end to minority government and offering the Conservatives a reasonable mandate to continue serving Canada well.