It seems that one actor (politician) fades from the stage and another drifts on but the play is the same. It doesn’t change and the main reason that it never changes is that we, the people are not willing to take responsibillity for instituting a new play. It is just too easy to remain in our collective coma and allow others to write our play. And they are only too happy to do so, as past history has shown.

As I see it after much study and reflection, it is just about too late to change our story now unless we collectively decide not to cooperate with the stage directions. We may, someday soon, have to make the decision to walk away and just plain refuse to go along with the story line given to us. It is mostly lies, as you say.

I remember watching a video made by a young man who obviously had done his homework regarding the money system in this country and who went around with his camera and interviewed average Canadians as well as members of Parliament, asking them key questions about the way money works. It was mind boggling to watch these people, especially those whom we have trusted with the safe-keeping of our country, who didn’t know anything at all about the money system (some of them didn’t even pretend to know!). One, especially, was Paul Martin, who had at one time been the minister of finance and later, prime minister. He was put on the spot and his answers were just plain laughable, had they not been such a tragic example of why we find ourselves in such a mess.

The best way I see for us to somehow survive this is to get ourselves armed with the truth, the facts about how things work as opposed to how we are told they work. Then, we can sort out the wheat from the chaff and not be tricked into cooperating with the powers that be.

Oh, and Colin, please don’t refer to us as your friends…..we’re not!

Another thing, if you will bear with me is that we the people do not trust government. Period. You are likely not old enough to remember when Trudeau forced the GST on us, with promises that it would be used only to pay down the national debt. What a pack of lies that was! Well I am old enough and I do remember. And I also remember when he forced the metric system on us, promising that we would benefit because the US was shortly going to switch over to that system as well and since they were our biggest trading partner, the new system would be to everyone’s advantage. Another pack of lies.

Did prices go down for the average consumer? Not a bit; they went up as merchants used the confusion at the retail level to deceive the consumers. It became next to impossible to decifer whether what you were paying $2. 63/kg for was higher or lower than the price you formerly paid by the pound.
Now of course, most of that is not even on the radar of the generation which followed and who never learned any other system than the metric. But we remember.

The very fact that you are planning to reimburse low-income people says to me that this is going to cost us bigtime!

It is not that we just do not trust the BC Liberal government, Mr Hansen; we just do not trust that government has our best interest in mind when they make decisions. Maybe this HST will be a good thing in the end but I will decide when I go to my favorite restaurant and find that the price of a hamburger is off the charts and that head of lettuce is now not affordable. Of course, it will be too late by then.