Stephen Harper and Tony Clement don't want their Conservative government to do anything to help fight AIDS right now, because they feel the issue has become "too politicized". Remember Canada's last Conservative Prime Minister? If you're scoring at home, it wasn't Brian Mulroney. During the 1993 election campaign she remarked that it "was not the right time" to talk about social issues. Harper's refusal to act continues those Tory traditions of ignorance and arrogance: Refusing to acknowledge the public's stake in an issue, and their own accountability by branding it as "too political". If you're so afraid of doing anything political, why did you get into politics?
What's particularly disgusting with Harper's latest dirty handwashing is the fact that hundreds of Downtown Eastside users of the Insite program and their neighbours (like this page) are directly affected. Insite's exemption to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act ends on September 12. If the Harper Conservatives are intent on playing to their backwater holier-than-thou zealot partisans, Insite is forced to close, and a lot of addicts will be going back to shooting up with dirty needles on the street, and risk spreading HIV among themselves and the neighbouring community.
That's a disgusting prospect, but what's also disgusting is a government that comes out and says that we're deliberately sitting on our hands while lives are at stake because a few people who don't like us are meeting in Toronto. Here's some breaking news for Conservatives: MOST PEOPLE ACROSS CANADA DON'T LIKE YOU. You only have a MINORITY government because people know what a bunch of self-righteous pr*cks you are, not because you cater this country's MINORITY of self-righteous pr*cks.
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