Mood:
a-okNow Playing: The government is way too intrusive...
Topic: Politics
I am glad now that the former Environment Minister, who is now Minister of Public Works and Government Services (one of the LARGEST departments of the Federal Government) as well as Minister for Status of Women (all under the same portfolio in one long exaspertaing sentence) as well as having responsibilities as Regional Minister for the Treasury Board , although it seems like a lot of responsibility for one person....
has found her niche in womens rights where she can feel the most satisfaction for being an agent of change (blog entry below)...taken over from the disgraced and RCMP investigated and FIRED former minister
My husband: Strippers, cocaine and government contracts
...so, if you will, please...just a reminder about the voice of women in the past in regards to the government still in power.
And please dont forget the members in the upper echeleons of our once proud military fired or investigated because of unprofessional conduct or criminal acts concering women in subordination or innocent civilians.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/08/women-rallies.html
notwithstanding that...
...in light of the facts as they are known in regards to all the governments posturing and legislation enacting to get tough on crime (5% cuts to public prosecution office? He-l-l-o-o?)
..it's nice to know that a bit of whining and complaining to government about their "level of intrusion" into your life can send the might government back rolling into a cave like a hedgehog
And I mean to refer to the abject minority of good Canadians who (after being only 1 in 5 to be chosen, 20 percent odds) complained to the government about the intrusiveness of the questions on a long-form census and the threat of fines or jail time if they didnt complete it. (aww!)
This means theres a 1 in 5 chance of being required to do this long form in the first place, and out of that 20 percent there would seem to be a mere fraction with voices loud and bitchy enough and whiny enough to bring about a fundamental long term change in the accuracy of the holistic picture of our country is about to come about.
In 1967 Pierre Trudeau announced
that "The State has no business in
the bedrooms of the nation." He
meant that laws governing sexual
behaviour should be kept to a
minimum - but that attitude no
longer seems to be the case. York
University historian Jay Cassel,
examined a growing trend toward
regulation and criminalization of
sexuality.
