“Harper’s Conservatives will pass an omnibus law and order bill within 100 days to make jail sentences mandatory for many offences, and begin building super-jails, copying a system that even its authors, the Americans, have begun to abandon.”

This is the first volley in Harper’s efforts to turn Canada into the United States. I applaud his stubbornness to continue with a plan to spend billions to build these massive jails despite the well documented fact that crime rates in Canada have been steadily dropping for the last decade and are at a 25 year low. But, you know, it’s also well-known that he’s a fact denier and that he thinks he’s smarter than experts so, no shock there.

Oh, and that tax break for folks with kids under 18 all you Blue voters were drooling over? Yeah, good luck with that. The catch that wasn’t widely made public is that it will only take place AFTER the deficit has been wiped out. Who knows when that’ll be? Most optimistic reports are 4 years from now, more likely it’ll be much longer than that. But, the largest, richest, most profitable corporations in Canada will of course get their tax cuts almost immediately, and with no such caveats, because Harper knows that’s where his future campaign money will come from when he changes the Political Financing laws now that he has the majority. This will give the Tories a large advantage since they obviously have a huge corporate base and will be able to solicit much higher corporate donations than other parties. It will also be advantageous because there won’t be those pesky Elections Canada investigations and charges that they had to put up with before when then blatantly broke the law.

And let’s not forget the fact that women can soon forget about controlling their own bodies. Abortion will soon be outlawed. Now, this is a touchy subject for many no matter what their political leanings are, but, on a personal level, what a woman does in this regard is her own damn business and not the governments and certainly not a group of radically right-wing evangelicals who form a significant part of core Conservative voters.

I like Jack. I’m glad he was so successful in this election to the official opposition. But, I hope Jack is up to the task of mitigating some of the disaster that Harper is about to wreak on us all. I find it frustrating that 60% of Canadians didn’t want this Conservative government, and yet, here we are. There is nowhere for right wingers to vote other than the Conservative party, so their vote is always unified. Left wing voters, however, are diluted amongst four parties. There needs to be a coalition or merger of some sort in order to oust this current government. But, in spite of knowing that, I’m still in a state of utter disbelief that so many drank the Conservative Kool-Aid.

My only hope is that Harper tries to enact every change he has fantasized about in his deranged little mind for the last 7 years as quickly as possible. That way it’ll wake people up and scare the bejesus out of them (if they weren’t scared before) and Harper will be out in 4 years.