The good. The Bad, The Ugly.

On first thought I see a positive picture of Canada with one of the best Olympics for our Country. The Venues in beautiful British Columbia were the perfect backdrop for this world event. Despite lack of snow and tremendous costs everyone agreed that this was a overwhelming success. Our opening and closing ceremonies highlighted the aboriginal roots to that area as well as the rest of Canada. I hope that the feelings expressed at the Olympics will be reflected in the governments treatment of its first nations needs, like clean water.

In a country where the rich are very rich and the poor are very poor we should ask the question WHY. The unequal distribution of wealth caused by our economy being controlled by international consortium's whose only purpose is to make a profit leaves us in a state where compassion is missing from the equation. In years past when most of our companies were small and controlled locally there was an element of local conscientiousness. Yes there was a profit motive but when the owner of the company lives in your town and sits beside you in church and coaches minor hockey you get a better picture of the way it was. This is only going to get worse and in a time where companies are growing so large that they are bigger than the government we can expect more of the same. This is the BAD.

For me the ugly was the manner that we as a country or more specifically the government handled the G9 and G20. I have never been so angry at the events that transpired in my entire life. We as a nation where, our prime minister walked among the crowds in Ottawa on Canada Day without great security or danger, where peaceful marches are a regular expression of showing our support for an issue , received a black eye for the manner we conducted ourselves on those few days in Toronto. Why? For a photo opp, a justification for spending $1,000,000,000 of taxpayers money or a complete lack of reading the situation in a timely manner. I trust the rest of the world will forget over time this mess and we will once again be held in high esteen for the way we treat our citizens participating in democratic actions.