Governance by Polls

We no longer have a democracy in Canada.

This was recently confirmed by an article I read that the federal gov't was going to look into lower and middle class tax cuts due to the upcoming budget surplus (read: the money they owe you).

The Liberals think this is a good idea to quash any backlash they'll get from Gumgate. What's Gumgate? Well, although I made it up, it's a term I'm "coining" (ha!) for former Canadian Mint CEO David Dingwall's crazy expenses, which allegedly included a pack of gum.

So, if there was no Gumgate, then they wouldn't have to look at tax cuts. WOW. That's vision. That's real leadership.

"We'll wait and see what the polls say about this."

Nevermind what you elected them to do based on their platform anymore.

We're being governed by polls. What's the point anymore. We could have a bunch of lackies in ttawa, umm, wait, .... UNELECTED lackies (there that's better, or we could just say bureaucracts I guess) UNELECTED lackies conducting polls to determine the will of the people.

Of course many of these polls are conducted in friendly areas. Do a straight poll here in Alberta and see what kind of reaction the federal gov't would get.

Reason #843 why I'm an Alberta Separatist. (In case you didn't know.)