2015: Better a school teacher or lawyer than a failed economist

Thankfully Canadians are not the stupid fools that Harper and his minions seem to feel we are.

We have watched in frustration and anger as he converted Canada from an industrial and science based economy to a sludge and sulfur based oil economy. One that is a single source economy that is dictated by World prices, a product known to be one of the dirtiest in the world and one with a sell-ability issue to a world concerned with a rapidly deteriorating environment.

In the process Stephen Harper ignored the Provinces and the needs of the people while pumping billions into his sole source economy. He slashed taxes to industry while cutting and gutting federal departments in the midst of one of the worst world economic meltdowns in history.

The mining of the tar sands was not even intended to give Canada oil independence but rather was simple corporate greed. America doesn't need the dirty oil produced from the sands and in the meantime China signed a multi-trillion dollar deal with Russia.

The OPEC nations are single source oil based economies, why Stephen Harper thought that they would sit idly by as he cut into their markets I will never understand.

Harpers drastic cuts in taxes and his wasteful spending on self promotion, lawyers and bonuses to bureaucrats who cut staff and spending has left the country in a very precarious position of not having the financial resources to recover from the crash of 2008 now that OPEC has decided to fight back against the attacks on their market.

There has been nothing physically conservative from this government, from wasting a surplus left by the previous government to blindly slashing taxes Stephen Harper has gutted Canada's social programs to such an extent that an unprecedented number of Canadians from all walks of life are relying on the food banks.

How he has hoodwinked so many voters into believing that oil was the salvation to all our needs and that they, as an industry, would lead in employing Canadians is seriously lacking in logic. There are more Canadians employed in the renewable energy field than there are in the oil industry.

Given the continued losses of fulltime industrial jobs in Ontario and Quebec which account for nearly 50% of Canada's population Harper's ignoring and confrontational attitude does not serve the country well.