WITH THE PUBLIC SUPPORT OF HARGROVE AND MART

The employees of Wall Mart, I imagine, are ordered by their supervisors to vote for Harper or Martin, whose parties are owned and managed by CEOs and lobbyists. Most other multinationals must be putting pressure on their employees who are risking their jobs if they do not vote as the executive secret orders dictate. Every Canadian working for major multinationals is putting his job on the line if he votes for Canada and the future of their children. The belated promises of Martin are an implied message to the seniors and working mothers. If you do not re-elect the Liberals your pensions may shrink and the day care centers that have been promised for the past 12 years, will not materialize after this election. Harper offers a tokenism that will not solve the problem of working mothers.

Quebec is well advised to send 75 BQ MPs. The Bloc has always represented the Quebecois ethically and responsibly. Can they believe Harper’s non-quantified fiscal balance or Martin whatever he is piling up at the end of this campaign, improvised in the debates?

Since Mulroney, politics in Canada has become a repetitive story-telling of a wishful Limbo that we all knew was only reverie. Parliament became with the years under Mulroney, Chretien and Martin a cage of monkeys that did not have any respect for Canada and for themselves. Those three leaders betrayed Canada with the Free Trade, the GST and the robbery of our employment. Bush is stealing 5 billions from our lumberjacks, and only Layton intends to force Bush to pay or face our retaliation. Last Parliament, Layton shook up the monkeys and made them behave like respectable representatives of a respectable Nation. We are all now sensing that reality is crawling back into the Nation. It is time that we return to have respect for ourselves and for our sovereignty and our patrimony. A better political system must emerge and the NDP gave us the blue print in the last session. It is our future and the future of our children what is being decided on Monday.

The only party that can be believed is the NDP because Layton proved in the last parliament his ability to represent us and protect the interest of all Canadians. Those who fear their employers, should remember that the vote is secret and it is not the subject of discussion in the place of employment. The supervisors have been pressured to intimidate you, but they will not be with you in the voting booth. Vote for whomever you want, and the 24 you tell your supervisor that you voted as ordered, and you expect a raise of salary for being so obedient to the multinational boss.

January the 23rd, is our last chance to keep Canada a sovereign Nation, with a democratic, representative Parliament. I don’t think that this year traditional corporate intimidation will prevent us to save our Nation for the next generation.

Jorge Torrealba, Director General, TEIC,
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
tech...@eastlink.ca