Ottawa Breeds Corruption or Only the Corrupt Go There Via Public Office

I don't honestly believe there will be any significant change in Canada following the next federal election. By this I mean I don't believe a new government will do things substantially differently than the Liberal Party has been doing.

I have few philosophical arguments with the Liberals. However, based on their stunning display of mangled ethics, I would like to see the party incinerated, prosecuted, and banished to Nunavut with copious amounts of tar and feathers awaiting them.

The fact is, power corrupts. In Canada, Ottawa corrupts. More accurately, the seeming free-for-all that is Canadian government corrupts. I'm sure if we elected Jesus Christ it wouldn't be long before he was flying his mother and apostles all over the damned place on private trips on the public dime. How are the morally questionable who always find their way into politics supposed to resist the temptation?

The Liberals ought to be swept out of office. I hope they go the way of the Dodo bird and the Progressive Conservative party.

The problem in Canada isn't high taxes or the GST or Quebec or growing discontent in the west. The problem in Canada is Canadians. The sorriest, most malignant among us are the only ones who seek public office. This is a reality, and our central pressing problem. These malignants then head off to The Happy Rubber Room Where All Dreams Come True (otherwise known as Ottawa) where they proceed to run amok like baboons on Viagra.

Why are only the worst among Canadians the ones who seek public office?

Until we answer this question, and solve its multifarious mysteries, Canada will continue down the road of flaccid tyranny, taxing its citizens to death, its government committing outrage after unaccountable outrage, only to be voted out and replaced by an identical shower of bastards who go by another name, but subscribe to the same base, gluttonous personal philosophy: "Everything for me. Nothing for you."

The only way to deter these malignants is through accountability -- something with which Canadian governments have absolutely no experience. There is much talk of this weighty word in government, but talk and action are mutually exclusive in Ottawa.

In fact, Canadian government and politics not only needs accountability, but consequences for bad behavior. The malignants who have passed through our government in the last few decades have left a slimy snail-trail by which all misdeeds magically turn into personal profit. We need some person, group or entity to cover this snail-trail with rock salt and to begin assigning highly undesirable penalties when wrongdoing is uncovered.

You know, like that concept of "justice" that is so reviled in Canada -- the notion of people taking or being forced to take responsibility for their actions.

Sounds sensible, but in a country where Karla Homolka is unleashed by a myopic judge and publicly funded defenders, this concept is easy to desire, but almost impossible to attain.

At this moment, every Canadian politician comes across to me as defense attorneys do -- as liars. Defense attorneys are not under oath. They win for their clients. Politicians are similarly not under oath. They win for themselves. They're all liars, thieves, miscreants, and rogues. And some gaggle among them will also form our next government. All the while making themselves sound like the Messiah.

The only way a politician (I say "a" because I never imagine there will be more than a single person who will attempt this) will have credibility in my eyes is when he/she proposes, institutes and enforces not only accountability, but severe consequences for betrayals of public confidence. Because betrayal of public trust is a serious blow to the national psyche.

It's a sickening cycle in Canada that fuels and empowers the malignants.

I believe nothing that comes out of politicians mouths. If one were to finally stand up and propose, institute and enforce accountability and serious consequences for misdeeds, they would have my attention, not my trust. My trust won't re-emerge until I actually see positive changes take place. Talk is cheap -- that's why we have so much of it.