A slightly delayed goodbye (and good riddance!) to 2009 and hello (and how are you?) to 2010 post:
I’ve already made two big changes in my life this year. And I’m not one to normally use the secular new year as a way of marking personal resolutions.
So consider this just a quick attempt at improving myself and others at an opportune time.
In 2010, on this blog and in my daily life, I will do my best to bitch a little bit less about the Conservative Party’s trashing of Canada, and Stephen Harper’s shameful and “contemptuous” behaviour as PM.
I will try to put my dismay to more effective use, and not simply write about the injustices and issues I see. Truly, change only comes when people love something enough or get angry enough. And I’ve been pretty angry lately.
I will find ways to reach out and encourage other like minded people to effect meaningful change. I will maintain a sense of the supremacy of dialogue coupled with action.
And I will do so from a perspective that – while disagreeing with – maintains a respect for those who are politically conservative. The crux of my arguments of late against the Tories has not been one against conservative substance, rather it has been one against the Conservative’s abuse of power, their hypocrisy, their apparent disregard for ethics and law, and their role in diminishing Canada’s place on the world stage and the subsequent tarnishing of our international image.
Some food for thought as I close my commenting on the great political shit-show that was Canada in 2009, courtesy of John Ivison at the National Post of all places:
Stephen Harper is a despot. The decision to “padlock” Parliament is a cover up designed to avoid scrutiny over the Afghan detainee issue. The Conservatives have a very thin legislative agenda and no new ideas to put forward.
And that was that.
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