over 1.5 million children living in extreme poverty, physically disabled
people, people with cancer who cant work, families, children are living
on the streets,

Social assistance rates were axed in 1998 and have not increased since
then. The average disability pension is $700 a month

The health care system is tanked, huge cutbacks to funding for BC
medical because of a little thing called the 2010 olympics,

Corrupt Governments, lying politicians and govt offiicials, no job
creation other than in minimum wage sectors that provide no
benefits,Canada bas become the missippi of the north.

Most people cannot even afford to pay rent never mind own their owh
home, rising food prices, gasoline prices, , natural gas prices to heat
homes is out of control, inflation is killing the working class,

Most families cannot afford to pay for post secondary education and the
BC liberals have cut and eliminated funding for education and education
grants,

The Harper Govt has eliminated funding for ALL women's programs, women's
health, womens shelters, rape counelling etc and legal aid for women
facing a divorce, no reprensentation in the courts for women unless they
are very wealthy, Women are no longer allowed to lobby for, or strike
for equal pay with men, it was passed through the legislature several
months ago, any union supporting its female members will be fined by the
Cdn Govt.

Its legal to smoke crack on the street but not to light up a cigarette -
rising crime, rising domestic violence and abuse --

Schools are being closed, funding is being cut ofr education and waiting
lists for surgerical procedures in some areas are as much as 5 years
long, the govt will no longer pay for any joint replacement for people
under the age of 65, several provinces have taken prenatal care off the
list of services they pay for as well as diabetic care, ER's are being
closed across the country, the BC paramedics are the lowest paid in
Canada, in all of NA, as so are the teachers - a person working in a
sawmill makes more then a teacher or paramedic does --

union trashing across the country, contracts being broken, salaries
being rolled back, unemployment rising, you name it, just add pollution,
no funding for the pine beetle recovery in BC, funds being diverted into
indian projjects, and the fact they Canada has an apartheird Government,
and you got a good snap shot of Canada --

even China has better social programs, senior and disability pensions,
health care and education than Canada has.

The Harper Govt has destroyed Canada and continues to hack away at the
foundations of Canada life and sell the country lock, stock, and barrel,
including control of Canadian airspace and travel to the Americans,
natural resources being sold in BC, anyone can build a damn anywhere
they want to now -- no forestry or wildlife management, Basically Canada
has been sold to the USA, most Cdns just dont realize it yet -- just as
Cdn women dont realize ALL their rights have been secrety legislated out
of existence

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