Dollars for Votes - I will vote Conservative after Harper PASSES a Polygraph

Dollars for votes. There are many ways to take this and I'm sure the reader is conjuring up all kinds of images.

First - the Stephen Harper claim that he and his Reform Party would like to phase out public funding of elections and political parties.

On that one Harper scores a zero and is just another manipulation or lie he perpetrates on the public. Harper and his followers absolutely believe in public funding of elections and political parties - all one has to do is review the spending by his government for the past 6 months on political messaging. This he did - knowing full well he wanted to once again go to the polls. Further his party's blatant disregard for the Elections Act - particularly as it relates to the movement of money from the associations to Party central - demonstrates he wants our money for his elections and he also wants no rules on how they have to spend and account for it.


Second there is the straight-up money for votes that Harper spreads around the country as he lectures audiences and bribes voters with their own money - while restricting media questions which may reveal the shortcomings of one "promise/lie" or another.

Harper is fond of making promises and he's even more fonder of breaking them.

1. Income Trusts

2. Elected Senate

3. Equalization changes on non-renewable resource revenues

4. Patronage

5. Accountability

We all know this is a short-list and that Harper's deception of the voter goes far beyond this. He tries to scare the population with CO-A-LI-TION when:

a) he tried to concoct one himself
b) a coalition is a very real option in a democracy and is in operation routinely throughout the world
c) his use of the word CO-A-LI-TION now as if there were one already formed

You see Harper is a liar and Gilles Duceppe has it dead on - and does not shy away from the appropriate word as defined in the English language. Not to use that word (lie) is just a way to make us - the voters accept the deceptive behavior as acceptable - because it is after all - POLITICS.

Our political system must have publicly funded election dollars - in order to keep the Corporate faceless elite in check. Yes the Conservative/Alliance/Reform party can raise their own money from the large corporations that do so well under their policies. Corporations can't vote but they can sure buy elections and have done so in the past. Has Harper returned the dollars for votes his party received? Has he turned it back to the treasury?

If Canada is to remain intact - still doubtful - then politics needs it's collective mouth washed out with soap. The way to insure that happens is to guarantee that alternative voices are heard and able to fund an exposure of lies - as is made necessary by Harper and his Conservative/Alliance/Reform buddies.

I will agree to eliminate public financing and vote Conservative when Stephen Harper agrees to a polygraph.