It's Still Too Early to go to Work

So I might as well consider this:

When the Liberal Party swept into power fifteen-plus years ago, one of the first things they did was cancel the contract that was to provide new helicopters to the Canadian Starved Forces, enacted in the dying days of the Mulroney conservative government.

The $8-billion-dollar contract had already consumed about two billion, and there was a cancellation clause worth almost another two billion, all in. The Libs were roundly (and rightly) pilloried by the Conservative Party of the day for having wasted $4 bn.

Now the Harper government has scrapped the long-gun registry. They say it's because the registry was a waste of money. It cost $1 bn. Less than Harper's beer & popcorn child-care "plan".

Moreover, they'd already introduced a get-out-jail free card by giving people who couldn't find the time to register their firearms over the past five years or so "amnesty".

Never mind that a majority of police chiefs liked it. Never mind that murders comitted with both legally and illegally held long guns have increased. Here's another manufactured need that panders to the extreme wing of the modern Conservative Party.

Wouldn't it be ironic if Harper got shot with a long gun, and the police couldn't identify the owner? I'm just sayin', is all.

Harper has to remember that he's just there to keep the seat warm while the Liberals get themselves together again. The majority of Canadians don't want US-style firearms deregulation, legislated morality, or other attempts to dismantle the proudest acheivement of the past 500 years of human history (Canada).

How long before Harper says he wants schools to "teach the controversy" on evolution too?