Crappy post on Canadian politics.

Well today was the big day; the first of the two-part Gomery report was released. Basically it told us a bunch of stuff we already new: the monolithic Liberal Party of Canada has people in its upper echelons that are corrupt – they take kick backs, exploit federal funds for their own gain. Such is politics is suppose. Such is politics when the same party stays in power for over a decade. Heck, Bush’s government can’t seem to avoid this and they’ve only been in power for half this time.

What annoys the hell out of me is all the people now saying they’re embarrassed to be Canadian or they’re embarrassed of the Canadian government, or they’re embarrassed of the liberal party, or they’re embarrassed about whatever. The only thing to be embarrassed about in any of this is that we live in a country with four major federal parties of whom none of which seem to have any chance of offering an alternative. Why is this?

We have three alternatives: the NDP, the BQ and the Conservatives. Two of those parties don’t represent anyone except themselves and a small minority of Canadians. In my opinion both have every intention of breaking Canada up – the Conservatives, from the west, seem to lack the cunning to appreciate anyone east of the Ottawa river on anything more than a “we need your votes” level. Not to mention any Canadian household with any ‘Canadian values’ or who’s annual income is less than 80k. The BQ is a lot clearer about their intentions. I’m not really sure what to make of the NDP, from what I can tell they appreciate Canadian values, and they certainly appreciate the majority of Canadians whose incomes are below the Conservative cut off line. But how the hell can they not get a vote in Quebec! They seem to seriously lack something, and I think it’s political savvy a.k.a. the ability to equivocate and bullshit your way into power. Anyways, I doubt they’d want to break up Canada but until they learn to get votes in Quebec they’re not helping anyone.

So who wins every election: the only party that can get votes in all provinces. It’s not the Liberal Party’s responsibility to teach the opposition parties how to represent Canadians. Nope they’re going to have to pull up their socks themselves, and until they do I blame them for the redundancy of Canadian politics.