Bill C-23 requires that “citizens” produce (and, of
course, pay for) government-issued photo ID in order to vote in the next
federal erection election. May I
remind the reader (and the “Harper Government”) that the Robo-call affair was
not about “citizens” casting multiple ballots. Given that our election day is fixed
to September, students especially, along with seniors and other marginalized
populations, will find themselves even more readily disenfranchised, assuming
that some of these groups even wish to exercise their right to vote, a questionable matter these days. While also emasculating
a so-called “bureaucracy,” headed by the Chief Electoral Officer (who acts in
the public interest – a notion alien
to right wing thinking), Harper is adding (though, in effect, not equally among
us) a bureaucratic (and as I suggest - expensive) prerequisite to voting. Is
this truly a Fair Elections Act when
our rights are as such transformed?
The truth of our beloved “Harper Government”
emerges as each anti-democratic step follows another. There is no need for confusion. We are witnessing the corruption of Canadian
democracy, first withered by small-minded ideologues now plotting to maintain
every dark corner of electoral advantage in an effort to perpetuate power ad nauseam.
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