So our anti-Canada PM today made an announcement aimed at chipping into the NDP promise of getting a grip on big oil company gouging... Thing is, he promises NOTHING close to Layton's promise.
Who put Harper up to this? Big Oil, more than likely. The Republi-Cons want to distance themselves from being the "Alberta-centric" party of Big Oil which couldn't care less about the environment - while actually doing NOTHING to impede the profits of Alberta Big Oil Inc. So, what do they promise? This is really precious...
HE PROMISES TO HAVE GAS PUMPS CHECKED "SO CANADIANS CAN BE SURE THEY ARE GETTING 1 LITER OF GAS, WHEN THEY PAY FOR A LITER"!!!
Those were his exact words - more or less...
What a crock. Harper has completely distorted the whole idea of gouging - which has always referred to big oil charging too much PER LITER by price-fixing, etc. It has nothing to do with the measurement of the liter.
I can't believe our "cajone-less" media didn't nail him on that one. What exactly does he intend to do? Our law already has provisions to ensure that merchants are selling what they say they are selling, and that fuel pumps are not "rigged" (we've had several cases of this over the years). No oil company - or more likely independent operator - would "gouge" in this manner - not when they can fix prices with other companies and turn an extra gouged profit on EVERY LITER sold at EVERY PUMP in the land...
Does Harper really think Canadians are stupid? More aptly, ARE WE that easily hoodwinked? To actually believe the putrid toilet residue he is shoving down our throats daily... We might all be just a little easy-to-dupe... That remains to be seen, if we choose to give him the majority he craves to allow him to unleash his agenda of Republi-Conservatism...
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