Dear
Stephen
About
6 months ago, a friend of mine told me that I need to learn more
about Canadian politics, especially during an election. He was right,
so I decided to start with learning about you and your government. I
certainly don't have the extent of political knowledge that my friend
has, but I now have a better understanding about you and what your
party stands for. Next I will be studying about Justin Trudeau and
the Liberals, then Thomas Mulcair and the NDP and then Elizabeth May
and the Greens. I was planning on attending one of your campaign
stops the next time you were in Toronto, hoping to shake your hand
and ask you why I should vote for you, but I was told that was not
possible, because Canadians can only attend your campaign stops if
their given an invitation and there are various people, in your party
who decide which Canadians get those invitations. All of that seemed
confusing to me. As I've said, I am not that politically aware, but
aren't you, in an election, supposed to be talking with everyone,
especially seeing as you're the PM . I thought well maybe he's
isolating himself because of the lingering fear he still feels, from
when he hid in the closet, in the Conservative Caucus Room, while
hiding from a gunman who went on a shooting rampage just outside of
that room. I wouldn't go as far as many of my friends and call you a
coward, but you must admit that the image of you hiding in a closet
is not a good one. Even with your invitation only campaign though, I
didn't want to just ignore you completely and talk only to the other
3 leaders, so I decided to write you this email letter and ask you,
what I can't ask you in person, why should I vote for you? I know
you're a man of few words, but I'm a woman of many words, so please
bear with me.
I
am a senior and recently my benefits have been reduced. I thought,
well, maybe he needs the money, you know, to balance the budget that
you talk so much about. My friend though, who is also a senior, was
livid. I have another friend who is not yet 65, but who is also very
angry, because she says with you in power, she will have to wait
until she's 67 to get her pension. In one of the articles I read
about you, it said you never really travelled outside of Canada until
you became Prime Minister. You must have really loved Canada, if you
never wanted to leave it. By the way Goerge W. Bush was the same
way, he never left the U.S. until he was President. I guess you both
have that in common. I myself have travelled a fair amount. When I
was twenty, after travelling in Europe with a friend, I decided to
stay and live in Amsterdam for a year. You wouldn't have liked it
there though, because smoking grass and hash were and still are legal
In Holland. I loved it. The Dutch were some of the nicest people I
had ever met.
I
understand your favourite era is the 50's. You probably like the
television shows that played then, like Leave it to Beaver and Father
knows Best. I grew up watching those shows, but my favorite era was
the 60's There were such incredibly dynamic leaders then, like JFK,
RFK, Malcolm X, Martin LutherJR, Lester Pearson, Pierre Elliot
Trudeau, to name just a few. There was also so much upheaval . I
remember the race riots in Detroit. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song
about them "Black Day in July", which was censored for
awhile from being heard on the radio in Detroit. You probably know it
, because I understand you really like the music from the 60's,
especially the Beatles. I also read where you sing and play the piano
and the first time you went to Israel you played the piano and sang
for them. One journalist I read said watching and listening to you
was "cringe worthy", but I never saw you, so I don't know.
It must be something being the Prime Minister of Canada. Flying in
your own plane. Having your own entourage front and back taking you
where ever you want to go. You must feel pretty important. I remember
Pierre Trudeau, most times, was either driven in the backseat of a
single car or he drove himself in his Mercedes. If he were alive
today, I wonder what he would think of your entourage? He never much
liked them for himself. I also found out that , because of the
Israeli 7 wk bombardment on the Palestinian people,there were
severely injured ,Palestinian children, who Canadian doctors,
together with Canadians and the Palestinian community wanted to bring
to Canada, so the doctors could operate on the most severely wounded
and hopefully in the process prevent some of these children from
losing their limbs.Other countries like Germany and sweden were
already doing these operations for a number of Palestinian children,
but in Canada, you, Stephen, refused these children visas. When I
read this I was really upset, but then I read that you were
exploring other kinds of aid and I felt better. I knew that you
wouldn't outright refuse these innocent children, some, needing life
saving medical help, from coming to Canada, so I searched and
searched and searched and couldn't find the programs for the other
kinds of aid you said you would be offering to the wounded
Palestinian children. Perhaps when you email me back, you can tell me
what those programs are and where I can read about them and how your
programs are helping these Palestinian children. Something else I've
learned about you is that you really, really like the Queen, almost
obsessively so. I'm not sure what authority she holds over Canada
these days, but another friend of mine said that you want Canada to
go back to being a British colony and also to be called The Dominion
of Canada again and our anthem to be both "God Save The Queen"
and "The Maple Leaf Forever." That's far too complicated
for me to figure out. I think your obsession with the Queen is simply
because you see her as a mother figure.
I'm
not, like some of my friends, a deep thinker who can analyze and
explain your policies and programs, but I know the people whom you
call elites can. I was at a party the other night and one of the
guests said you were a fascist tyrant whose flawed legislation put
forth, was meant to eliminate The Charter of Rights and Freedom and
place all of the power with the PM. That would be you. Another man
called this guest horrible names and got so angry that his face
turned purple, sort of like the man at one of your campaign stops,
who yelled and screamed at the reporters who were just trying to ask
their 5 allowed question. I understand also that he was one of the
guests that you took with you, when you went to the Ukraine. I don't
know for sure and I don't want to jump to judgement, but was that
trip tax payer funded? I've decided that I'm going to judge who I am
going to vote for on how they are on the humanitarian issues, because
as I said my knowledge doesn't extend to policies, programs, trade
deals and legislation. I'll leave that to people like my learned
friends. Lately, I've been trying to learn as much as I can about
Justin Trudeau, trying to figure out what kind of Prime Minister he
would make. I know you hate his Dad and judging by the Conservative
ads about him, that are continually played on TV, you don't much
like him either. In closing I would just like to add that I think you
are very hard to connect with. You don't attend many debates and
you're not having any sit down TV interviews and of course your
campaign by invitation only is not helping. Maybe you're just really
shy, but you really need to make youself more available. I am really
looking forward to your response to my letter and answer to my
question, why I should vote for you. Right now though, I'm hurrying
out the door to meet a friend. Justin Trudeau is doing a campaign
stop in downtown Toronto and we are going to attend. I'll shake his
hand, but more importantly , I have a few questions I want to ask
him. I say this last comment only in jest, but wouldn't it be funny
if Justin Trudeau,the son of the man you despise the most in the
world won the election. Just saying.
Sincerely
Canadian
Gal From T.O.
2 comments:
This is great, Rural. Thanks for posting it!
I am fairly certain that the "Gal from T.O." is far from a Neophyte, Lorne!
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