To: Dustin van Vugt Executive Director, Conservative Party of Canada,
From: David Gordon Bain, Founder, Editor, and Writer of Hegel's Hotel,
Subject: The Egalitarian-Democratic-Political-Economic-Social Future of Canada
Good Day Dustin,
It seems appropriate that I am writing you on July 1st, 2015, Canada Day,
I am extremely worried about the future of Canada, looking over at what is happening in Greece, and particularly knowing that life in Ontario these days, as probably in much of Canada, is not the same life that I enjoyed in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and the first part of the 2000s.
Since the middle 2000s, if not before, life in Ontario seems to be getting progressively worse, with Harper's 'engineering' of the implementation of the HST in Ontario (without any similar attempt being made in Alberta or the rest of the provinces. How did we in Ontario remain so placidly passive through the passing into law of this provincially discriminative -- and what should have been 'constitutionally illegal' -- tax?),
So Dustin,
If the Conservative Party is really deserving of being The Canadian Political Party of The Future', then do not be shy, and please, just answer -- in public-- or privately to me in a manner that I can copy and paste your answers, word for word, without any tampering on my part -- the following political questions that I have posed for you and your Party -- without prejudice:
As I am sure that both you and I have the same ideal in mind -- a healthier, happier political-economic-business-social Canada of the future -- I expect that you will be just as motivated to answer these questions, as I was to pose them:
As I am sure that both you and I have the same ideal in mind -- a healthier, happier political-economic-business-social Canada of the future -- I expect that you will be just as motivated to answer these questions, as I was to pose them:
1. Why does Ontario have HST and not Alberta?
2. How are you going to prevent corporations from contracting or sub-contracting to individual workers who used to be company employees and then allowing these companies to 'downsize corporate expenses' (like gas and cell phone expenses to fleet drivers) onto these ex-employees/now turned sub-contractors where they don't have to pay overtime, holiday pay, benefits, and can hide the fact that they are paying them almost half of minimum wage (by getting sub-contracted drivers to sign one-sided contracts if they want to keep their jobs and then paying them by the km (say, $1.28 per km and 80 kms in a 12 hour shift minus $40 in gas for the day -- do the math) which can work out to be as low as about 7 dollars an hour for a driver working a 12 hour shift?
3. To generalize, how are you going to prevent labour abuses from happening in the labour force that have been brought on by the destruction of corporate unions and a government that turns its back on such abuses because its political bias is towards supporting business corporations at the price of allowing businesses to exploit its workers more and more like 'Mexican sweat shop practises' within the relevant countries that allow such practises to exist without putting in place and/or enforcing labor rights that are designed to protect workers from such corporate abuses.)
4. Do you really want Canada to become labeled as a 'sweat shop country' that allows every type of corporate labour abuse?
5. A two part question: What is the Conservative Party going to do to bring back all the manufacturing companies that it gave away to other countries in the name of free trade and global capitalism? Or allow the much smaller number of large manufacturing companies that actually stayed in Canada during the rush to get out of North America and enter third world countries (at the time) with their 'no labor rights protection policies' and the resulting cheapest labour forces in the world (regardless of how exploitive they were of workers) -- to continue to exist and survive in Canada without allowing for similar exploitations and transgressions of the supposed labour rights of Canadian workers (like the minimum wage which becomes more and more of an illusion to the extent that more and more of Canadian employees are being 'turned into into sub-contracting workers'?
6. If Harper is so against taxes and harming Ontario families (not to mention single Ontario citizens as well), then why did he engineer (manipulate) the introduction of the HST (again without trying to do the same in Alberta, and indeed, in the other provinces of Canada who don't have the HST) -- indeed, the question can be asked: why is the HST not viewed as a 'discriminative tax' that targets some Canadian provinces and not others -- and in this regard, should be viewed as a constitutionally illegal federal tax? Because Ontario was a lucrative province to over-tax -- and did not include Harper's home riding in Calgary? For a party that said that it would get rid of the GST if or when it got into power, how hypocritical was it to introduce a mutation of the HST which was -- and is -- even worse than the GST in terms of the struggling, crashing, used to be middle class citizens of Ontario -- while not even a whisper of HST ever entered into Alberta-Ottawa discussions at the time that Ontario was brutalized by this tax?
Maybe you could answer these questions to the fine citizens of Ontario who might like to know what kind of answers you might have for them relative to these questions and what policies you might implement if your party was to be elected again to prevent these problems from getting worse and to treat all citizens and workers of Canada as being 'equally taxed' in terms of the province they live in?
-- dgb, July 1st, 2015,
Sincerely,
David Gordon Bain,
From: Dustin van Vugt
To: Harper Destroyed The Middle Class
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:37 PM
Subject: Cheers to 148 Years
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Harper Destroyed,
On behalf of the Conservative Party, I would like to wish you and your family a very happy Canada Day.
Canada’s 148th birthday is a joyous time for Canadians from all backgrounds to celebrate together with friends and family in the July sunshine.
July is also when our increased and expanded Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) kicks in.
We’re proud to be the only party making life easier for 100% of families with children. That’s exactly what our bigger, better UCCB does – helping families each year with $1,920/child under 6 and $720/child aged 6-17.
WARNING: These benefits are at risk.
If Justin Trudeau has his way, they’ll all disappear, replaced with new tax hikes.
If you agree that these benefits are just too important for families to lose, then click here to donate $50 today. This donation will go directly towards our election readiness efforts this summer.
Thanks for your support, and I hope you have a fantastic Canada Day!
Sincerely,
Dustin van Vugt
Executive Director Conservative Party of Canada |
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