{"id":1075,"date":"2011-04-24T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T04:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/lane\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2011-04-24T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T04:10:06","slug":"senator-tommy-banks-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/2011\/04\/24\/senator-tommy-banks-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Tommy Banks Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tommy Banks Speaks Outby Mark Eisenman on Friday, 15 April 2011 at 10:03A letter from Tom Banks It&#8217;s worth noting that Tom was a Conservative when he was appointed to the Senate. If you agree with this food for thought please feel free to send it to your friends of whatever political stripe. The bigger message here is how we want our government to behave, no matter who forms that government. Here&#8217;s Tom&#8217;s missive:<!--more--> &#8220;There is only one thing about the outcome of the May 2nd election on which Mr. Ignatieff and Mr. Harper agree. It is that one of them will be the Prime Minister of Canada. Mr. Layton, Mr. Duceppe and Ms. May are not in the running to form a government. They can\u2019t. It will be either Mr. Ignatieff or Mr. Harper.  That is the choice, and it is a very clear \u2013 in fact, stark choice. We will choose between openness or secrecy. Between listening or refusing to listen. Between someone who respects Parliament or someone who disdains it. Between things we can and will do now or things that, provided of course that everything goes well, we might do in five or six years. Between someone who answers all questions from Canadians, or someone who won\u2019t accept any.  Between Mr. Harper who said \u201cIt\u2019s past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act\u201d, or Mr. Ignatieff who said \u201c . . . we don\u2019t want user fees. We want universal, accessible, free-at-the-point-of-service health care, paid out of general revenue. That\u2019s just bottom line. Otherwise we get two-tiered\u201d.  Between buying jets or helping vets. Between real early childhood learning and care or Saturday-night babysitting. Between respect for our great institutions or contempt for them. Between helping families or helping big corporations. Between the Canada that we think we have, or the way in which Mr. Harper has already changed it.<\/p>\n<p>Please Read the rest<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/mark-eisenman\/senator-tommy-banks-speaks-out\/10150170247797612\">Senator Tommy Banks Speaks Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tommy Banks Speaks Outby Mark Eisenman on Friday, 15 April 2011 at 10:03A letter from Tom Banks It&#8217;s worth noting that Tom was a Conservative when he was appointed to the Senate. If you agree with this food for thought please feel free to send it to your friends of whatever political stripe. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9nCfs-hl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":250,"url":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/exposure-urged-for-rebels-with-a-cause\/","url_meta":{"origin":1075,"position":0},"title":"Exposure urged for rebels with a cause","author":"lane","date":"12 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Dave McGinn National Post Friday, October 10, 2008 Ontario's Lieutenant-Governor thinks Queen's Park needs to better honour the rebels who tried to overthrow his predecessor. 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