I’ve been thinking of how heartless the Harper Administration can be; how totally indifferent they are to the harm their ideology causes—the waste of hundreds of millions of dollars on enforcing the ‘war on drugs’ instead of treating addicts, and regulating and taxing marijuana; their refusal to assist Canadians in trouble overseas, indeed, to make their predicament worse as with Omar Khadr, Maher Arar, Abousfian Abdelrazik, and others; the despicable conditions they’ve allowed to continue on Attawaspisak and too many other aboriginal reserves; the lies they tell—e.g. that MP Irwin Cotler was resigning, when he wasn’t—which they then have the effrontery to defend as free speech; the disgraceful way they treat wounded members of the Canadian Forces, fobbing them off with a paltry one-time payment instead of a decent pension—these are the actions of a heartless regime led by a man who cares only for power and money, and nothing for anyone who doesn’t blindly support him.
So I suggest that this Valentine’s Day we each send Harper a heart of our own devising, with our own message to demonstrate that we care, even if he doesn’t. I'm going to send mine in hard copy; it doesn't cost anything, and makes more of an impression than e-mail. Below is an example of a postcard I'm working on.
