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May. 17th, 2007 07:47 pmPolitics
There are free, democratic countries out there without homeless and without food banks, and with intact health care and welfare systems. Canadians have just retreated into cynicism, given up on changing things, and that's exactly what the Neo-Cons wanted -- in lieu of our support, our apathy will do.
In other news, here's a little detail that slipped by me about a week ago: Darrel Reid, former head of Focus on the Family and one of Canada's most prominent and vocal members of the religious right -- has been appointed to the PMO. In other words, he's one of Harper's top advisors now. Gah.
Meanwhile, I've been thinking of moving most of my political stuff into another blog -- something more professional-looking. At least my queer political/historical stuff.
This one is now a combination of the political and the personal, and it's a mixture I've never been all that conmfortable with. Half my friends come here only for one, the other half only for the other. Maybe splitting it is the solution.
"A blank look came over the face of the woman I was interviewing. A professor in weden's Centre for Working Life, Annika Baude had been active for years in the social policy area, having playeda key role in the development and expansion of Sweden's day-care system in the '70s. But while she spoke very good English, she suddenly looked quizzical, as if she hadn't understood what I'd just said.That's one of the jolting moments from Linda McQuaig's The Wealthy Banker's Wife. It's one of those things that makes you remember there are other ways of doing things, and makes you realize just how jaded you've become. Immediately after, McQuaig had to explain to Baude that there are homeless in Canada.
'Food banks?' she asked. 'What's that?'
There are free, democratic countries out there without homeless and without food banks, and with intact health care and welfare systems. Canadians have just retreated into cynicism, given up on changing things, and that's exactly what the Neo-Cons wanted -- in lieu of our support, our apathy will do.
In other news, here's a little detail that slipped by me about a week ago: Darrel Reid, former head of Focus on the Family and one of Canada's most prominent and vocal members of the religious right -- has been appointed to the PMO. In other words, he's one of Harper's top advisors now. Gah.
Meanwhile, I've been thinking of moving most of my political stuff into another blog -- something more professional-looking. At least my queer political/historical stuff.
This one is now a combination of the political and the personal, and it's a mixture I've never been all that conmfortable with. Half my friends come here only for one, the other half only for the other. Maybe splitting it is the solution.
