With the long gun registry still intact, we must examine and compare the Harper government’s actions to defend, protect and assist our rural population.
Nearly $1 billion was spent to provide security for himself and his friends at the G20 conference in Toronto this summer. Yet in 2009, when the same conference met in Pittsburgh, a much more dangerous city than Toronto, only $12.2 million was spent.
But Harper offers to save mainly rural residents a whopping $25 per long gun by promising to scrap the long gun registry. It matters not that police use the registry up to 11,000 times per day to help ensure their safety. Some law and order prime minister.
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But in the face of this summer’s unbelievable farming disaster, only $30 per acre has been offered to struggling farmers who help feed us and so much of the world.
Yet before any additional assistance is even mentioned for farmers, Harper announced (and since cancelled) a $450 million NHL hockey stadium for Quebec City, a planned announcement made in front of cheering Quebec Conservative MPs.…
Just imagine the money to be spent on fun and games while many farmers struggle to save their farms.
Harper seems to believe he will win most Western Canadian seats anyway so he’s concentrating on other parts of the country hoping for his coveted majority government.
Randy Nelson,
Saskatoon, Sask.
