Spare us from the Great Red Tide

So, Justin Trudeau doesn’t want any pro-life candidates running for the Liberal party, eh? How wonderful for the women of Canada that the Liberals are going to save us from those horrible Conservatives with their “hidden agenda” to drag women back to the stone ages of backroom abortions.

Whew! We’ll finally be able to rest easy!

And marijuana should be legalized, eh Justin? Great! What courage, how admirable, to be so determined to right this intolerable wrong that has been done to our young people in cruelly depriving them of the pleasures of this harmful … oh, excuse me … harm “less” substance.

And speaking of harmless, don’t forget the harmless refugee invasion from the Middle East headed our way, that the mean and cold-hearted Harper is stalling at our borders over imaginary security concerns. What a Scrooge, and how embarrassing for poor Justin to have Canada so lowered in the estimation of the likes of Lebanon and Jordan who are accepting … uh … none!

Yes, this country really needs to be put on the right track at last.

So here comes the “Great Red Tide.” How wonderful! First B.C., then Ontario, then New Brunswick, and we’re next: a Liberal Newfoundland and Labrador in 2015.

But first, the biggest prize of all: Let’s boot Stephen Harper out of office for marijuana; aborted babies; lethal injections; and Justin Trudeau — yay! All aboard for the ride of a lifetime!

Forget that Canada, under Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, is in better economic shape than almost any other country in the Western World. Forget that Newfoundland and Labrador is in better economic shape under the Progressive Conservatives than any of the other provinces. Oh no! We need to be more like Ontario under the Liberals.

Forget that Ontario, for generations the engine of economic prosperity in Canada under the Conservatives, has been going downhill ever since socialist-leaning liberal parties gained power.

Maybe we, too, should be doing our laundry and baking our bread after midnight to save a few dollars on hydro rates, the way people are having to do in Ontario now under the Liberals. Yeah — coming soon to a cold senior-citizen flat near you.

It’s at times like this that I thank God my children are already raised and I won’t have to be around a whole lot longer to despair over what is happening to my country. It’s at times like this that I have no trouble at all twisting that old saying to “Better dead than red.” Kathleen Langer Heart’s Desire