Tag: Government of Canada

Please Don’t End Me

Today, I was Googling myself to see what others were writing about me and one of the first things I read was the following tweet. (2025 Update, Tweet was removed) When I first read it I was a little afraid that my country had enough of me and were all out to get me. Then I read a little more on the issue. It was really shocking to me to learn that my initials are also the acronym for Child, Early and Forced Marriage. According to the Government of Canada the following stats are true: Every year, it is estimated that 15 million girls—some as young as five years old—are forced into marriage. Over 700 million women alive today were married as children. One in every three girls in the developing world is married by the age of 18. One in nine marries before the age of 15. Complications in childbirth are the leading cause of death among girls between the ages of 15 and 19 in the developing world. I really agree with the 10,000 tweets on the issue that this is something that everyone should know about and work towards putting an immediate end to. If you want to read…

If I Could Change the Government of Canada

The first thing I want to start out with is a call I received earlier this week from fundraisers for the Conservative Party. Now I have always supported the party, and in ways still do. This brings me back to March 2005 in Montreal when the party had its last national meeting. Those long sessions debating the policies and constitution of the newly created party. The ideals of trying to give balance to the bottom-up Alliance to the top-down Progressive Conservatives. Now to see the current leader Stephen Harper disgraces the party by not knowing when to give up. Too many times in history have leaders like Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and too many others repeat the same level of seeing themselves as the alternative to the status quo, then gain a position of power and do whatever they can to remain in office. Harper has blatantly in his struggle to maintain power thrown away the policies and constitution of the Conservative Party. One must remember that although the Conservative Party has more MPs the House of Commons does not have a majority and needs to work together. There needs to be reforms in the way government works,…