Editor, The Times:
Grain transportation system clogged by greedy railway companies, railway companies ignoring safety recommendations from the Lac Megantic disaster, endorsed by the Conservative transport minister.
The Canadian Wheat Board was once the manager of grain sales and transportation in Canada but Harper castrated this efficient system at the request of American predator corporations and a few misguided big-time farmers. No vote of farmers was ever conducted by Mr. Defender of Democracy, Stephen Harper.
Based on the Harper government’s performance to date, I can foresee a future where all corporate taxes will be eliminated. In fact, fundamentalist Harper will institute a mandatory 10 per cent tithe system on all Canadian wage-earners to be paid directly to the 20 largest corporations in the country. We will go from subsidies indirect through the government to subsidies direct, administered by these same corporations.
All broadcasting and the internet would be private, eliminating the need for censorship of anti corporate ideas and opinions. Unions will be legislated, directly and indirectly, out of existence, with right-to-work legislation, from the southern U.S., the common standard. Workers' benefits, healthcare, unemployment and compensation would be the responsibility of each worker, circa 1850. By the way, healthcare, ambulance service, hospitals would all be private, user pay, on the American model.
This is my vision of life in Harperland, five to 10 years down the road if we do not awake from our political coma and start to rebuild our democratic traditions and sagging world reputation.
Have a nice day.
Wes Morden
Clearwater, B.C.