Canadian politicians are a rare bread of animal. They are uniformly at once too concerned with appealing to their voter base and committed to their own moral compass.
Dalton McGuinty, late last week, tried to sneak in new legislation forcing schools to introduce sex ed to kids in grade 1. Are you kidding me? By grade three they wanted kids to be taught about anal sex and masturbation. Why? What exactly is the point of teaching about masturbation? To make sure they know what to do and how to do it?
Luckily, he backed down less than a day after announcing it.
Prime Minister Harper is not as quick to back down on conviction. Now here is an idealist who truly believes in what he is doing. Well, it is well known that Liberals will prostitute themselves for votes while Conservatives have far right tendencies, especially this flavor of Conservatives. Luckily, we still live in a democracy... although I don't know who the alternative might be: Ignatieff? Duceppe? Layton?
At the heart of the point here is the stance on abortion. Religious belief and moralistic superiority against doing what is right for humanity as a whole. For now Canada will not support access to safe medically supervised abortion in countries most in need of the funding. Who cares that in those countries the reason women find themselves pregnant is because of a lack of choice in the matter. Sure there is a fair number of uneducated women and girls but there is also a larger number of men who simply don't regard women and what happens to them as anything worthy of consideration. They do what they will and leave legions of children behind. These girls then become outcasts, destitute and desperate. But, Stephen Harper has his morals to contend with.
Go Hillary Clinton and go Obama. Women's rights are still human rights and they recognize that. I may not be American but, I'm more proud to be their neighbor.
