Opinion

Things are really not so bad, I tell myself. I just finished watching Lewis Mackenzie give a speech on his experience of reading a local Ottawa paper the first morning he returned from the Balkans. In his speech, the general relays the story of watching some kids being blown limb from limb in front of his eyes. In his speech the general points out how the lead story on that day in that paper was to GST or to not GST. The point of the story being how wonderful a place our country is. I so agree with him. And so, I tell myself things are no so bad.

But the old brain just won’t leave it alone with that simple thought. I think to myself, how do we keep this wonderful place, well, wonderful?  How do we keep what is arguably the most wonderful place not just to live now, but to ever have lived, that way for our kids?  The party in power is so American, its hard to imagine them in power. Wasn’t it just a few years ago that we laughed at the antics of the Reform movement, so Texan that it was too Texan even for my Texan friends.

Well, no one is laughing now.