CANADA - WAKE UP 2

Dear Jaliya:

Thanks for your comments!

Do i really sound 'catty' (re: MEOW reference))?? I love it! I'm all that and pissed off, too. I feel so alienated from a process that used to inspire me. The last ten years have left me agog with North American political direction going farther and farther right (conservative) and where lofty principles like 'access to basic rights for all' have become "rien" (nothing) in the face of the race to multi-national economic success.

No wonder the world is falling apart. We desperately need a balance. It's weird, but i felt kind of vindicated and optimistic at the same time, when the stock market fell - it was like "SEE, I TOLD YOU"!!! along with this sense that we were standing at a turning point. The greedy and sociopathic are everywhere but there sure seemed to be preponderance of them on Wall St/ Bay St./ and every other money street in the world this past year (two thousand and eight). The behavior of some is reprehensible and astonishingly cruel - especially in terms of the magnitude of losses.

I hope (like millions of others!) that the upcoming Democrat leadership of the U.S. will offer up the much needed and desired direction toward a better, more just society, focusing on the values of peace and caring and equity for all peoples in all places, inviting them to share fairly in the land and resource that are abundant in so many places in North America and elsewhere.

It's all too complicated and i put everything in such simple terms; i'm surprised i'm even thinking about these things still.

The United States can no longer afford to claim to be the "greatest nation in the world" and Canada's military presence has changed from Peacekeeper to Combatant. Canada's identity is linked to evolving alongside the rights and customs of all cultures. In considering multi-culturalism, we must have thought "why invite people in, if you don't intend to respect their customs?" But it we really were to look at Canada's immigration policy and practice (procedures), we would be surprised at the defensive and protectionist position Immigration Canada takes. This seems way off the point, i know, but i think the battle for "Nationhood" is on and it wouldn't surprise me if we soon understood "nation" in a historical context only.

Is Mexica better off because of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement). Please forgive me, i know less than nothing about that subject.

Yes, Mr "NAFTA", what do you have to say for yourself now!! I remember when we were so against it back in the mid eighties but I didn't understood that it was Mulroney's (past Prime Minister, Conservation; currently being investigated for fraud and corruption) way of setting the parameters for Canada to build a global economic framework. Heady stuff when interest rates were as high as 18%!! Who the heck cared when you were losing your job/house/ etc.

Our current leader of the Opposition Party in Pariament (Liberal Party of Canada) would be lucky to get 500 people to stand in the f*c*ing freezing weather up here to listen to the same old crap - "OUT WITH THE OLD; IN WITH THE NEW - which, by the way, is THE SAME AS THE OLD!!" Where's the Rhinosaurus (sp) Party when you need it??!!

God, give me something to chew on.

Meow!!!!
At the same time, i bow my head, i know so little.
love heather