Dear Mr. Harper and every one else in Parliament;
I am a white English speaking Canadian of mixed European extract but I do not fit in to any identifiable special interest group. I'm kind of lumped into "main stream" a very bland and suspiciously meaningless category that pays most of the tax, takes most of the blame, and has the government working very hard to erase my history, make me believe I had no culture before 1965, take away my majority status and pay to school new comers to speak my language as a second language like it's not good enough.
All this new change righting never ending wrongs of the past with today's general revenue and apologies for the dead would be a lot easier to tolerate if we could remember that income tax was instituted as a temporary measure to pay for Canada's First World War Debt. Many of our fellow Canadian families living today with relatives that fought have paid enough. Any one who did not apologise while they were alive did not want to and I don't need the government to say sorry for me about any thing I didn't do.
The big black hole of general revenue for governments to squander is not working for my group. It's actually purposely working against it. When Indian treaties were signed there was no income tax. I want a special group and I want my share. "My Nation" has been balkanized. My Grandfathers didn't fight for never ending income tax, forced government financed multiculturalism, mini nation states, special interest groups, English as as second language, forced official bilingualism while Quebec institutes french language police, but that's what the government has given us. The squeaky wheels get the oil. SQUEAK! SQUEAK!
Bill Bishop
