Who's Running Our Country?

Thank heavens for a free press because, without them, we'd have no idea what our governing idiots are up to. Watching the pre-election coverage for both Canada and the U.S. has been particularly frightening this year.

The U.S. has the inept Sarah Palin to worry about and we have Stephane Dion, the Liberal leader who can't speak English well enough to function. How do people like this come to power?

Dion was asked a simple question (in English, because we are a 75% English speaking country) during an interview and couldn't understand it. He was asked what he would have done differently from Harper to prevent the present financial crisis if he was prime minister. The question had to be paraphrased 3 times and his poor grasp of the English language still prevented him from understanding. This is ridiculous for a man attempting to run one of the major English dominated countries in the world. Is this the best person the Liberal party could find to be their leader?

Dion may be a shining star in Quebec but Canada is much, much more than just Quebec. The rest of us, the majority, deserve representation by a strong prime minister who can communicate perfectly in the language of the majority.

Harper has been blasted by Dion and his followers as being wrong to point out Dion's lack of English language skills but shouldn't that be a prime concern for Canadian citizens? When listening to Dion speak, I almost need subtitles to help me understand what he's saying. That is wrong, wrong, wrong!

One of the biggest mistakes we ever made in Canada was to make our country officially bilingual because it opened a can of worms that haunts us to this day. The advantages of a person being bilingual is immense and should be promoted everywhere but a country should function in the language of the majority. That language, be it English, French, or Swahili, could be changed as the majority changes because that would be a very slow process.

I'm not bilingual and that's a loss for me as far as I'm concerned. But I live in a country that is approximately 75% English speaking and travel most often to the United States where the official language is English. I expect to find English speaking politicians, clerks, and police officers in both countries and I feel I have a perfect right to expect these things.

Stephane Dion isn't fluent in English and therefor isn't capable of being the leader of my country.