On the same night Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won the federal election, I sit here and ponder what this means for Canadians. To sum it up, I think we will be given incentives to car pool to work while terror cells find it a little easier to set up shop in our country. I think there is a chance tax dollars coming in will go up if they follow through on their promise to legalize marijuana, but small business may become a thing of the past since Mr. Trudeau seems to think the people that drive our local economies are, merely, wealthy people in hiding. All in all, it’s not at all what the people of Saskatchewan want since our citizens voted, overwhelmingly, to keep the Conservatives in power. Not to mention Alberta and Manitoba did much the same. But, the east is where the population is and the east needs to draw from the west to prop itself up and be, somewhat, sustainable. The Conservatives are your enemy in the east as far as this is concerned, so what we have is a new federal government.
I wonder what the Liberals have planned for our broken justice system. I have two examples of miscarriages this week that should be alarming. In Manitoba, a woman applied for a restraining order in May to keep her boyfriend away from her. She said the man had beaten her multiple times over a two year period, including while she was pregnant. The judge analyzed her request and said to grant a restraining order is an extraordinary remedy and that she hadn’t been assaulted in about six weeks, so there is no urgent need to keep the man away from her. Well, the woman is dead and the boyfriend is charged with killing her last week.
In New Brunswick, a man has been granted temporary absence from prison two years into a fifteen year sentence for trying to kill a woman. The reasons for this privilege aren’t known, but what is known is that he shot a woman as she fled from her home on a frigid January night. She’s required multiple surgeries and suffers from post traumatic stress disorder.
Do those two examples sound like something a new government should take a look at, or would it be better to go to a climate change conference and come back and suggest to Canadians that we stop heating our homes in the dead of winter and start using a horse and wagon to get to work?
On a serious note, it’s examples like what I’ve outlined above that concern me a great deal when it comes to victims of domestic violence being reluctant to come forward. There is no justice and nothing but pain, anguish, and danger for a woman to step up and try to get an abuser out of her life through the legal system.
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair made a fatal error by campaigning on a ‘defeat Stephen Harper’ basis. What happened was that the electorate decided they agreed with Mulcair’s demand, but also decided his party wasn’t the one best suited to do it. They’ve taken two steps back and I’m not sure where they go from here. Frankly, being a person who opposes socialist beliefs, for the most part, I’m not going to lose sleep over it.
I have never been to Saanich-Gulf Islands in British Columbia, but that must be a heckuva place to vote in Elizabeth May as your government representative. I think an investigation should be done. I don’t think anybody with a pulse that’s capable of assembling adult thoughts live there. How bad are the other candidates?
There are three games left in the Saskatchewan Roughrider season and, finally, a sign that someone other than Elizabeth May is in charge of that outfit. Interim General Manager Jeremy O’Day traded away Kevin Glenn and Jerome Messam and has deactivated kicker Paul McCallum so the team can look at younger players. I think it’s too late to get a real good gauge on people; but it can’t hurt.
If you are ever contemplating going to a Winnipeg Jets game, I traveled on Sunday and I was exactly five hours going from my door to the parking lot at MTS Centre. Most days you could do it about 15 minutes or so faster because there won’t be highway construction. I left at 6:30 in the morning to attend a game that started at 1pm (Sask time). I was back home on my couch by 9:45 that same night. It’s a full day, but well worth it. The Jets put on a great show for entertainment. The quality of an NHL game is not comparable when in person if trying to relate it to television. It’s fantastic.
Nice person mentions to Peter Zerbin, Chris Nykolaishen, Roman Jaworsky, Craig Zamzow, Dee Johns, and Grayson Reitmeier.
