Righteous indignation about radicals
It’s been said before, and it will be said again. You’re either with us, or against us. Polarized thinking. And right now, the Harper government has adopted the slogan, in form if not in words. Check the Wikipedia reference, if you have any doubt.
Unfortunately, in a parliamentary democracy, there’s supposed to be room for dissenting thought. Oh, sorry. That was in the Canada I used to know, BH (before Harper). The latest call to the barricades involves a plan to pipe bitumen across the Rockies, down to the BC coastline, where tankers will be waiting to transport the cargo to the new owners, far across the briny sea. If the ships make it…
The oil sands are the gold rush of my lifetime. Rarely have so few gotten so rich on the backs of so many, and it ain’t over yet. There’s a lot of dirty dirt to wash and refine between now and the end of the world as we knew it. The government believes that salvation (sic) comes to those who are willing to get their hands covered in pitch. Pity we have no feathers to finish the job.
The minister of Natural Resources has no time for dissenters. If you protest his policy, you are a radical, unfit to live in the same nation as his elected friends and cash dispensing supporters. Although the idea of holding hearings into proposed pipelines and the like sounds normal, there is no time for such folderol when the price of a barrel of crude means increased wealth for those friends and supporters.
I beg to differ. If the government is so convinced of their righteousness, then take a few moments to breathe. Hear what those radicals have to say. Maybe your policy paper wasn’t extracted from some Bible, after all.
