Dear Editor
Harper has increased our debt by 45 per cent: to $634 billion. What did we get for this burden on our children? Massive military buildup: fighter jets, military bases in Afghanistan and Kuwait, guns and bombs; more soldiers, more killed in illegal invasions; thousands of civilian deaths in Syria, Iraq, Kosovo, and other victims of our “humanitarian” intervention. Traumatized refugees.
The enemy is us. The U.S., NATO (Canada is a member), and “our” allies in the region provide weapons and support for ISIL: the West’s false flag operation to cover up their push for world domination. At home we get a CSIS empire, more police and riot gear, more prisons. Harper claims he balanced the budget; if so, it was by eliminating and privatizing public services.
Costing the Harper agenda: we can expect more billions wasted, austerity, IMF loans, and bankruptcy. Another four years of his “theocons” (his word) would take the world closer to permanent war and climate catastrophe, at our unsustainable cost.
Hilda Bechler, New Westminster
