As Canadians were getting ready for
the summer, they discovered that senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin had one
of the big scandals in Canadian history. When the opposition asked Prime
Minister Stephen Harper about these scandals, he decided to shut down
parliament and prorogue it until October 16, 2013. After Harper prorogued
Parliament for the fourth time, Canadians wanted to know more about these
scandals. But, Harper does not want to talk about it0 nor answer the tough
questions coming from the opposition, so he tells Canadians to ‘shut the up and
move on’ by proroguing. The Wallin scandal was only viewed for at least one
month then Canadians forgot about it, but the one that will not go away is the
Mike Duffy Scandal. Duffy owes Canadian taxpayers $95,000, he also did not
claim that PEI is his home residence. This scandal still has new allegations
coming out against Duffy and the Prime Minister. Harper and his party still
continue to play the “blame game” and accuse other members within the party and
link them to the Duffy scandal. What Canadians really want, is to know is why
Duffy did it and for him to own up to it and not have all of this garbage. One
system that would work for Canada is the model after Kitchener city hall but
with the governor general. On the right side, all the local politicians and
regional councilors working together and the economists working on the right
side. If Canada and the Canadian people want a political system like this,
politicians on one side and economists on the right, then both report to the
governor general, this system could help reduce the amount of political
scandals in Canada. Canadians are sick and tired of hearing about their tax
dollars going toward a sixteen dollar glass of orange juice or something more ridiculous,
Canadians want to see their tax dollars going toward improving Canada, like
roadways, and getting new trades going with the global market. What Canadians
can get out of this system is accountability; the politicians make all of their
documentation and what they plan to discuss with other politicians. Rather than
having scandals and other bad issues coming out of Parliament, we can see
improvements if Canadians want this system in place rather than have lies,
pointing fingers and the ‘blame game” being played in our country’s capital.
Canadians want our politicians to be honest and not to make promises they
cannot keep. There is no end soon to this Duffy scandal, as what Porky Pig from
the Looney Tunes would say “Th-Th-Th-That’s all folks” but in this case
“Th-Th-Th that’s not all folks.” We can expect more coming from Duffy from this
scandal and Harper covering his behind and not answering any of the questions
coming from the Liberal and NDP, Canadians should be thinking, shouldn’t our
system be improved? We should look at Kitchener’s city hall layout as an
example that can benefit all of Canada because we hear not a lot of scandals
from city hall, and the regional councilors and the mayor all have social media
webpages so they can keep their citizens informed of upcoming events and other
information can be released to the public before it is in the newspapers or on
the website of Kitchener. Canadians should not tolerate scandals like the
Duffy-Wallin-Brazeau. We need to look at a new system so we can see an issue
before a scandal occurs and prevent it. For the current system we have, it is
good, but there is much we can do to improve it, Canadians should not look at
Parliament Hill and see an episode of a classic Loony Tunes cartoon, but the
people they elect to speak their concerns to the house of commons so a solution
can be made.
By David Sej, Kitchener, Ontario
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