Promises .. Promises ..

A PROMISE MADE -- IS A DEBT UNPAID
A commentary on speeches made by high level
Conservative Government Authorities
Promising Fair Taxation for All Canadians.

By Victor Drummond ©
April 2008

My maternal grandmother was a Mennonite and she taught me well on the vagaries of real life and the standards I should strive to live up to. She placed top priority on telling the truth.

It was made clear to me that deliberately misleading someone -- without actually telling a falsehood -- was the equivalent of lying by implication.

Bald faced liars were only slightly less despicable – in Grandmother’s eyes – than those who deliberately mislead by implication.

Along with truthfulness came the absolute obligation to keep one’s commitments made to another person or even to ones self.

There might be exceptions to this obligation such as -- if a commitment was made under misleading or false circumstances – or if circumstances changed that caused the commitment to become invalid.

People who had no sense of personal worth – either for others – or even for their own credibility -- were to be avoided, shunned, and kept at arms length or further if possible.

Grandmother was also a realist. She knew there were circumstances where the golden rules could not be applied. And when Germany became an aggressor in 1914 Grandmother did not say:- Run for the hills – thou shalt not kill.

She tearfully endorsed all able bodied male children -- of military age – to go and do what-ever-was necessary to bring peace and order back to the world. And to preserve the New World Democratic System of Government that she believed was the best in the world. Had she been still alive in 1939 when Germany again went to war she would have endorsed her male grandchildren to serve in Canada's military which most of us did.

Until recently I agreed with her. Now I am not quite so sure.

The Canadian government has changed – in my opinion – and things I would never have believed could happen in my Canada – have been in operation for at least six years and no one has done anything realistic – as yet -- to correct the problem.

I would never have dreamed the government of my Canada would become a willing participant in any scheme that imposes economic oppression on honest Canadians.

And yet that is precisely what is going on – in my Canada – and no one with the power to correct the situation seems to care.

There is no way in Heaven above – or Hell below – that taxing honest hard-working Canadians into financial oblivion – on money that in fact never existed– can be claimed to be fair taxation.

Where are those lofty politicians that said – within the past 14 months – our government is committed to fair taxation for all honest, hard working, Canadians?
Are they working silently in the background to fulfill that promise?

Within this current month there are two victims of the flawed taxable benefits legislation – that I know personally – who have lost the protection of their tax deferment – through no fault of their own – and are expected to pay outrageous, and ruinous taxes on income that never was -- and likely never will be.

Working silently in the background will not save them, from financial extermination.
What is needed to save them – and many more like them – right now is a stay of execution order on all deferred taxes that are based upon non-existent “Income”.

If there is intent – by this government to correct this problem – then such a stay of execution order is required RIGHT NOW.

If the commitment to fair taxation for all honest, hard-working Canadians is a false promise then there is an even bigger problem with our elected representatives. We do not deserve them. And furthermore they do not deserve our vote in the coming federal election.

Those that lie to us – have a very low opinion of themselves – and an even lower opinion of us.

If we continue to support those who will not look after every Canadian’s best interest then they are correct in assuming we are an insignificant factor in the political arena and do not deserve any better treatment than they feel like giving us.

Politicians can be cured of this attitude of low voter esteem IF WE TELL THEM STRAIGHT OUT – PROTECT US, OUR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN FROM TAX ABUSE BY CORRECTING THIS UNFAIR TAX SITUATION – OR NO VOTE.

An easy way to launch a prepared e-mail message -- to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, and/or other high level Ministers with the power to get the wheels in motion -- is to click on the following link and send them that message over your E-mail Address and Identity.

http://cfet.ca/EmailMP.html

See you at the voting polls next federal election O’Grady.

Victor Drummond ©