WHO DOES YOUR REPRESENATIVE...

WHO DOES YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENT?
A commentary on the performance of your Member of Canada’s Parliament.

By Victor Drummond ©
February 2009

Now that the Conservative minority government has survived the reading of the 2009 budget and the prospect of another federal election, for the time being, the jockeying of our federal political parties, for public support begins.

Each party will be utilizing the parliamentary question period to grandstand on one issue after another in an effort to sway public opinion polls in favour of their policies and performance.

And no matter how outrageous the issues may become no combination of parties will call for a vote of no confidence unless they believe they have sufficient public support to bring them to power in another federal election.

Barring some major earth environmental catastrophe, which can be blamed on air pollution, and/or global warming, issues such as going green or imposing a carbon tax wont cut the mustard.

With the world’s economy going down the drain, and with tens of thousands of family bread winners around the world becoming unemployed, losing their homes, their savings, and sometimes their families there is little doubt our politicians, provincial and federal will be beating the drums about stabilizing Canada’s economy and restoring full employment.

Although hundreds, possibly many thousands, of honest hard Canadians have been appealing to their
elected representatives, for protection from financial/social decimation by their own government only a favoured few, (about 43 victims), have had their elected representative, (MP Gary Lunn), actually go to bat for them.

All other victimized appellants have either been totally ignored or at best sent a useless boiler plate reply. So who do those other 300, or so, elected Members of Parliament actually represent?

Is Gary Lunn the only Member of Parliament to be outraged at the financial devastation being wreaked upon his constituents by their own government?

Do Canada’s Prime Ministers from Jean Chrétien to Stephen Harper, and possibly next to Michael Ignatieff, believe it is acceptable to bleed honest hard working Canadians financially dry on the basis of taxes levied, and maintained, on income that never came in?

After nearly a decade of Canadians being victimized by their own government, and their appeals ignored, by their elected representatives is any concern, now expressed by our politicians for the financial problems of current victims of the economic downturn, creditable?

Even in the face of the United States government recent action to revoke all taxes and penalties related to the taxing of phantom income, our Canadian government displays no indication of doing the same.

Apparently our elected representatives in Canada’s parliament feel their constituents are not as worthy of support and protection from harm as the U.S. Congress honours their commitment to their citizens.

Unless at least one candidate for election to Canada’s next parliament has the conscience, sense of decency, and the moxie to speak out in support of all Canadians victimized by Canada’s defective taxable benefit legislation then I, for one, will save my time and taxpayers money by boycotting the election polls.

Why should I, or anyone, pay dollars per vote in support of politicians, and/or political parties that neither represent me nor the moral standards I want to have in my government.

If the U.S. government can afford, at this time of economic crisis, to treat their victims of taxes on phantom income fairly then there is no excuse, this side of Hades, why the Canadian government could not and should not do the same.

Visit:- http://www.fair-iso.org/ and http://www.reformAMT.org and http://www.cfet.ca for more detail on this issue.

Canadians are not second class Americans. Remember that when the next Canadian federal election gets under way.

Victor Drummond ©