Lost Inocence

Canada has for about 140 years been recognized as a peace loving country with a reputation of helping the world through its peace keeping capabilities. The last years under this Conservative Government we have been seen as just the opposite. Our world status in relation to our behavior in the field of environmental issues, military involvement on the coattails of the USA and total dependency on a dirty oil economy has made us very vulnerable to negative reactions from the troubled nations of the middle east.

Our military actions in Afghanistan cost us 140 lives, 2000 wounded and some needy for life, 20 billions in costs and for what? Our limited actions in the war on ISIS has cost us to be named as one of the nations to receive  special attention from the terrorists. We have young Canadian people who have left our country to fight against  us because of our involvement in the war. Had we been true to our real Canadian Spirit we could have been a positive factor in peacekeeping activities.

Our country has had a terrible reshaping of our world image by a prime minister who has a cabinet who are afraid to speak outside the scripted cards they are given every day before question period. There are some real strong members in that group who could make a contribution  and one who is no longer with us showed in his financial ability and spoke out. Because we have a leader who makes all the decisions we are held ransom on the world stage. Harper should be given all the credit and blame for the mess we have in so many of the federal responsibilities. Good cabinet ministers should have been given the confidence to run their departments and we would not have the terrible problems in so many of the critical social issues facing Canada today.

Aboriginal issues left unsolved will fester and be a huge problem in the next few years, oil based economy cannot sustain itself and the money given to prop up that foreign owned enterprise will sink our economic base. Lets hope come the new year we will have some good news and have a team approach to Canada's needs involving all the good men and women we have sent to Ottawa to work on our behalf.