Double Blind

The recent headlines that have made the news in Canada are dealing with the release of the Auditor General of Canada’s report for 2003. It is too long to summarize here, but the major component of this report (Chapter 4) involves an unraveling of an existing plot whereby government bureaucrats award large contracts to companies for contributions to the Liberal party of Canada as a reward. Normally there are processes to avoid such events from occurring, but these were circumvented by masking the awards through intra-governmental actions.

As a result, everybody is calling for the head of Paul Martin, the prime minister. Oddly enough, this could not solve the issue at all, since this is a problem with the bureaucracy – changing the prime minister would do very little. What needs to be done is that charges need to be laid against the following groups:

• Key members of the bureaucracy that made this possible;
• Officers and directors of the companies that took the contracts;
• Senior officials of the Liberal party of Canada that made this happen.

Basically, people need to be thrown in jail and there needs to be a clear message sent that such activity is not to be tolerated with the use of public funds.

This of course has no chance of occurring. If people in this country were not so docile, we would probably be hanging politicians by the neck in our stadiums. British Columbia traditionally has hanged their politicians in the elections – no premier here has survived to see a second term elected in office since Bill Bennett got re-elected in the early 80′s. The rest of them resigned in scandalous conditions.

Canada has always been a country where supporters of the Liberal party (all based in Ontario and Quebec) will receive the kickbacks and economic proceeds of Canadians around the country. This is a systemic problem that has its problems in the roots of confederation. The system is broken. The country is broken – most of the power is centered around Ontario and Quebec and thus the western provinces are nothing but tax dollars to Ottawa that get siphoned to supporters of the Liberal party in schemes exactly like what the Auditor General wrote about. Am I surprised? No.

Because our federal political system is so biased towards appeasing the inhabitants of Ontario and Quebec and the Liberal party of Canada, and because there is no solution that will be implemented in the country, I am a British Columbian first and a Canadian second.

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