Stay the course, Canada's court jester.

I am not sure who listened to Tuesday's power and politics on CBC, but I have to say it was a riot. You can almost feel the election in the air and I have to wonder, is Pierre really our new court jester or is he just a broken record. At one point in the conversation the "evil" and "undemocratic" word was brought up in reference to the opposition. Yes that's right he actually called them a coalition! I wonder if this is an attempt to distract voters by lumping in the left all as one big bad evil...nah Harper would never do that.

More importantly though, and the true reason for the broken record analogy, is the phrase Pierre says at least...well I honestly lost count. This phrase is "stay the course", as if our current government had an actual course in mind. He also like to mention that there was 400 000 thousand jobs created, but when asked what kind of jobs and that many were part time, he was oddly quiet, or simply returned to his mantra "all is well, stay the course". It almost seems that he believes if it is said enough people will accept it at face value...scary part is people actually might. But back to job creation. He was asked at one point if people could actually live on minimum wage, part time jobs and like a bull in a china shop he skillfully avoids the question by simply not acknowledging it.

Maybe a broken record was not the right analogy, he is more like a parrot, only capable of a few practiced responses. An other example that leads me to believe I am closer to the mark with a parrot then a broke record is the term he loved to use, which is "job creators" like 900 say in her post from yesterday, we are seeing a change in the rhetoric. These "job creators" are the rich people we would have once called corporate fat cats and they are being allowed to take a larger chunk of our wealth in return for the pittance we call new jobs. Our government does not even care about the quality of the jobs, since they seem to believe that our situations are so bad we will accept anything. But if they do believe that then they obviously have no interest in improving our lot in life because they are spending our money to ensure we remain happy with crumbs so they can keep the pie.

I am very disappointed with our government and have been for longer then Harper has been in power, but I will be infinitely more disappointed in the electorate if Harper manages to get a majority with his track record. Sometimes it is actually better to go with the unknown over the evil you know, remember that Canada.