Recent polls that show the Liberals with a 14-point lead over the Conservatives do not surprise me. In fact it would be surprising if the obverse were true, given most Canadians’ preoccupation with having the government take care of them. What is surprising is that there doesn’t appear to be any moral outrage at having a government that’s on approximately the same level as that of Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Canadians do get morally outraged on occasion, but the things that offend them are incomprehensible, to say the least.
If someone isn’t in favour of "diversity" or "inclusiveness", Canadians get their hackles up. If someone is in favour of having a health care system that actually works, regardless of who delivers it, Canadians are offended. People who are in favour of lower taxes and fiscally responsible government policies are offensive to most Canadians. Those who steal are not.
at what point would Canadians say "enough!" and seek to kick out the Liberals? They didn’t do it when conclusive evidence came to light that the Liberal Party of Canada stole taxpayers’ money for its own spurious uses. They didn’t do it when Paul Martin bought the NDP’s support with $4.6 billion in tax money and they didn’t do it when he bought Belinda Stronach with a cabinet post or tried to buy the Grewals’ vote with an unspecified future payoff. They didn’t’ do it when Martin and Co. ignored the will of Parliament in that non-confidence motion they lost, claiming it was not a true non-confidence motion, despite the fact that a clear majority of sitting members voted against the government.
I’m beginning to wonder what the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star would write were police to discover the decomposing bodies of small children buried in the gardens of 24 Sussex Drive. Would they excoriate Stephen Harper’s "hidden agenda"? Would the Globe and Mail urge its readers not to draw hasty conclusions pending a full investigation by a parliamentary committee? after all, they may not really be children or they may not really be dead. Besides, what evidence is there that the prime minister had anything to do with it? Would the Toronto Star attempt to lay blame on the Conservatives with claims that Steven Harper somehow "provoked" Paul Martin’s actions? While verging on the ridiculous, reactions such as these are nevertheless not out of the question in a country like Canada.
It appears that Canada, which was once the gold standard by which the rest of the world measured morality and ethical behaviour has now become the bastion of equivocation, where good is bad and bad is good, depending on where your personal interests lie. Moreover, both good and evil are in a constant state of flux.
The argument that "who are we to judge" is specious, at best, as it absolves everyone of any responsibility for their behaviour. Interestingly, at the same time, we as a nation are ready to judge anyone as being evil or having "a hidden agenda", if they express any socially conservative opinions. In other words, it’s okay to steal, lie, cheat or undermine democracy through vote buying. But it appears to be a crime to want to preserve the traditional meaning of marriage, protect people’s freedom of religion or take less tax money from the citizenry.
In his wildest dreams, George Orwell couldn’t have imagined a more benignly toxic "democracy" than that which is prevalent in Canada today. It appears that the federal government, the majority of the media and nearly half the population are in collusion to remake what was once a great nation into a morally corrupt backwater.