Like thousands of Canadians across this great country, we at Vote ABC are stunned that our nation’s so-called only national paper has endorsed Stephen Harper and the Conservatives. In the Globe’s 784 word endorsement, not one single word was devoted to the Conservatives’ dubious and odious distinction of being the only party in the history of Canada to be found in contempt of parliament.
That the Globe’s editorial board could be okay with that ugly historical fact, that it could be okay with a party and a leader who have brought the very worst of American-style politics of personal destruction to Canada, that it is okay with a leader that holds the media in disdain and only gives the press five questions a day, that it is okay with a party that saw our nation lose a coveted seat on the United Nations Security Council, that it is okay with a leader who has presided over Canada’s palpably diminishing stature on the international stage, that it could be okay with all the scandals we know about and those yet to surface, is astonishing, demoralizing and hugely disheartening.
It is beyond shameful.
But rather than let the Globe’s unthinkable endorsement of Harper get us down, let’s use it as a motivator. Let’s channel our anger and our frustration of doing every thing we humanly can in these remaining days of the election to ensure the Globe’s wishes do not come true. Let’s save the boycotts and the calls for canceled subscriptions for after the election. We’ll let them feel our rage when it impacts their bottom line. But for now, let’s harness our rage and put it to good use.
Let’s roll up our sleeves and work our asses off this weekend to show the Globe’s editors, Stephen Harper and the Conservative party that their vision of Canada is not our vision.
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