Crack down on drugs?

John Williams, MP

August 18, 2008

I am writing about the recent literature you sent me. First of all, I want to thank you for including me in this mailing, in Toronto of late it is difficult to get any information about the Conservative Party and as someone who voted for the Conservatives and Stephen Harper your flyer was appreciated.
I am writing with a concern I hope you will share. I realize it’s difficult to present your entire platform in the space of one piece of paper but I am worried you oversimplified some issues.
You seem to be using fear tactics with faceless "drug dealers in the schoolyard" preying on children in Canada. I question your words with offering these children "something new". I do not believe this is a common occurrence in Canadian schoolyards of today, this seems to be taken from a 1950's paranoia film. One would presume these people offering "something new" are fellow school children, are you proposing a plan that would arrest school children while they were at class? How would this be enforced?
I agree with your next point, "parents shouldn’t have to worry that their children will step on dirty needles that have been left in the park by heroin junkies" but I’m not sure where you’re going with this. Is there a party advocating that junkies should be allowed to leave needles in public places with impunity? Which one?
I also agree that families are being ripped apart by drug addiction. I would love some information on how I personally can make this stop happening, and how I can support your initiative to "get [junkies] off the streets and into programs".
I am not suggesting other parties aren’t using propaganda to push their own agendas but I really hope that although you seem to have oversimplified the issue, our common interests will prevail.
The best of luck,
Adam Dunn

I don't understand Ontario

Well, I officially do not understand this province.
Back to back Liberal majorities. What the fuck? These people said they would not raise taxes and then brought in the largest single tax increase in the history of this country. What else do they have do? Come to your house and break your windows? Wake up.
The Star says the race was won on faith. Now I admit the Liberals must be congratulated on their MASSACRE of the facts on this issue.
John Tory steps up and says "I want to end 150 years of inequality. The fact that Catholics get their religious school for free and no one else does in ridiculous in 2007. Something must be done." And the Liberals turn it into a prejudice and discrimination issue, telling people that their tax dollars will now be going to "some Muslim school" and that will bankrupt the public system, none of this is true, and thereby turning it into a vote on the future of public schools, instead of the issue of fairness which is WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!
So once again I vote for a loser. And thanks to MMP failing, my vote now doesn't matter AT ALL. Brilliant. I have voted about 10 times, 3 times for the person that won. Not a great track record.
I was asked about my next trip, I'm planning 2. One in March, fly into Poland and check out Auschwitz, then take the train to Berlin. Then a road trip in the summer to Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati and whatever else is nearby with a baseball stadium.
I got a few packages today, the Anthony Rapp CD (from Rent) which I paid $35 for, the new Wally Lamb book and the second Peter Wildeblood book. I was talking to a book collector last night and he said books made in the 50's last about 25 years because of acid in the ink. Modern books last about 10 before stains appear, which I never knew.
I have to go nap before Steers and Queers tonight.

I'm turning Japenese

I think I'm turning Conservative, I really think so.
Well, the Liberals never wrote me back so I checked out the Conservative candidate for my riding. Her website is very sparse, with like no issues. I think maybe with politics you have to pick and choose, and perhaps everyone will piss you off a little until they have the Adam Dunn party.
The Conservatives are promising to remove the health care premium and right now that's my number one issue. They want environmental change. The negative is they want violent crime tackled head on and I think it's too easy to promise more police.
I have written her and asked her about gay rights, I refuse to believe the opinion that the Conservatives are hiding their true selves until they get a majority, twirling their mustaches in anticipation. I don't think Quebec, Ontario and the Atlantic Provinces would allow a family values campaign to sweep the country.
She supports lower taxes, environmental change and fiscal responsibility, and that sounds good to me.
I went to the baseball game tonight, and for the last game of the season it was a hum dinger. The Jays came back in the 8th inning to win the game, yahoo!
Tomorrow I will be packing and exercising.
Here's a picture I took of A.J. Burnett to honour his pitching performance tonight: