Our Health Minister is deeply concerned over the findings of a report, showing high concentration of lead in childrens toys, as reported in an investigative report by the Toronto Star. It really is interesting listening to the shock & dismay by our Minister, given how he and his boss, Stephen Harper are slowly stripping away all pretence of consumer safety. Thanks in large part to the ruthless enforcement of NAFTA by greedy US firms, and an unwillingness of our Federal Government to act, we are starting to see the gradual disintegration of Canadian Values, that used to seperate us from our American cousins south.

The federal department this week issued recalls for toys including charm kits and a miniature hockey stick, following a Toronto Star investigation that found the children’s products contained unsafe levels of lead. (source – CBC News)

Clements promises tougher laws for those firms that break the law, in bringing in this tainted crap, but then didn’t his boss make the same claim last year? At the same time, didn’t Stevie Boy also say our agencies were much tougher on inspecting for this crap? Funny how that all lead up to the election, and now that it is over, has fallen by the wayside. Funny too, how suddenly we have a slew of recalls, not found by our Inspectors, but by a Journalist Report.

What other hidden dangerous stuff are we being subjected to by this Harper Government of Big Business? Banks are getting bailed out, and our Finance Minister has said we will need to borrow money to help them out, which certainly wasn’t his story during the election, now was it?

Then we have Dow Chemical wanting to sell its dangerous chemicals in Canada, even though banned in the United States. Yet under Brian Mulroney NAFTA, they are attempting to do just that, so that Canadian consumers will once more be subjected to chemical poisoning, even though we are opposed to it. Well we are, Stephen Harper is quite willing to allow NAFTA to aid in the poisoning of our land, of our people.

We have come full circle, to where Canada is slowly being made into a wasteland, courtesy of the United States & Harper. Our values, our interests are being sold down the river, because Stephen Harper & his conservatives are nothing more than puppets for the corporate interests of the giant conglomerates. Food safety is a joke, and now we see, so is the safety of toys. Lead tainted toys leads to lower intelligence, it is a proven fact, but obviously it has been around for a bit of time. After all, look at how many bought into Stephen Harper’s lies, attack ads, and re-elected his gang of thugs, and jokers.

Just as Americans got sold a bill of goods by smart mouthing George Bush, Canadians also got swindled by the sweater wearing Stephen Harper, with his smug grin, his attempt at looking like he was in charge, that was nothing but smoke & mirrors. The markets continue to plummet then rise, gas is at under $65 a barrel and yet the price at the pump is still over $1.00 a liter, dropping ever so slowly. Now the loonie takes a nose dive and while that should be good news for our exports, the only problem is, do we have anything to export?

Our manufacturing industry has been gutted, and Government is doing nothing, has done nothing, so that even a dropping dollar isn’t going to lessen the impact on our cost of living. Inflation has gone up to over 3% and our Government spent over ONE BILLION DOLLARS MORE THAN IT HAD IN AUGUST, but our wonderful Finance MInister tells us there is nothing to worry about, that we won’t go into Deficit Financing.

Like does anyone still believe these LIARS?