Conspiracy?

I think so!

Okay I don't know why this never occurred to me before, but I think the Conservatives may be in league with the Americans in completing their Manifest Destiny and conquering Canada. They tried to take over Canada by force of arms in 1812. We burned the White House down and won the war. Then they tried politically, by buying our land from the British - they gave up Alaska and some of BC to the Americans and we never had a say in it. Then they seemingly gave up, turned their attentions to South America and Mexico and all the other areas in the world. And Canada became their 'friend' with the Free Trade agreements and all the other North American 'buddy-buddy' relationship we seemed to have gotten in more recent times. What was that old saying? Oh yes - Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Well now that I'm looking back, every time the Conservatives come into power, they put us into massive debt with frivolous spending and start trying to change our political machine into that of the Americans. Maybe it's because the Americans and the Conservatives have a lot in common in the way that they think, act and react to different stimuli (apparently for both these parties the Separation of Church and State never happened, because all of their policies center around a very Christian ideal and moral setup - ie. Anti-Abortion, Anti-Woman's Rights, Anti- Gay Marriage, etc). But maybe they are trying to get Canada into so much National Debt that we would never be able to pull ourselves out of it. Maybe they're trying to get us into so much debt with the Americans that we would have to start selling off things to be able to pay the debt, when those loans come due. Like, say, land titles, products, natural resources, our very people?

Hell the natural resources thing has already started - Harper doesn't believe that clean water is a right of every person - he sent buckets to First Nations Reserves to serve as toilets because he didn't want to install running water for them. When they died of H1N1 outbreak, he sent them body bags instead of getting them immunized. Harper also refused to sign a UN resolution that acknowledges clean water as a basic human right.

Harper put in a motion to purchase from the USA, sixty-five(65) F-35 Fighter Jets, telling Parliament that it would cost about $75 million a piece. However Pentagon Budget Documents list them at $207.6 a piece, more if you want to count research costs, which would set the price tag on the purchase at $134.94 billion dollars. This is after Harper's government has already taken the $16 billion dollar surplus that Canada had when Paul Martin left office, and spending it, adding on another $56 billion in debt. Okay, okay, the whole world went into a recession, but $56 billion? Really... That doesn't sound like sensible spending, that sounds like trying to get us into enough debt that we won't be able to get out of it. Which if he goes through with that purchase, the national debt will be up around $200 billion dollars, and we don't get the maintenance software with the planes, so add upkeep costs to that.

Where exactly is Harper getting this money? We, the middle and lower class Canadians, certainly don't have the money to front the bill, and if the tax payers don't have the money, then is he writing an IOU to the USA for $134.94 billion dollars? If that's the case, then when will the USA see that money? Will it be called out when the USA decides it wants to wage it's next war? Something along the lines of "Hey remember that debt you owe us? How about you cover the cost of this war and we'll call it even, you provide the troops and ammo and we'll throw in that maintenance software for free!" or what about "Hey remember how you're in so much debt that you'll never get out of it? How about we absolve your debt, and you give us Canada?" Cause really, this just sounds like two centuries worth of Manifest Destiny going "FINALLY WE WON!" And we become Americans. The country who has the worst reputation in the world. Dude- you beat out fascist China for the worst rep! Why does the Conservative party seem to want to align itself, and turn Canada into, the United States of America? I don't know for sure, but someone *cough* Harper *cough* is surly getting a big pension out of this when all is said an done. I'm just hoping that something can be done before it gets this far.

- Jade

PS - For those of you who haven't seen it yet. This is where I'm backing my facts up.