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velvetpage ([personal profile] velvetpage) wrote2010-05-12 06:49 pm

More political ranting.

Still from [livejournal.com profile] siobhan63, as was the last one.

Apparently, the Conservative government is quite happy to slash funding to pro-choice groups, including refusing to fund international initiatives of maternal health that include abortion, all while starting an initiative aimed at maternal health around the world. But they're prepared to give $800K to groups that are translating the Bible into various African dialects.

And they still manage to deny that the choices of which agencies to fund is more about ideology than their ability to run their agencies well.

[identity profile] morpheus0013.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
...they keep this up, I'm going to have to stop pretending to be Canadian when I travel.

[identity profile] amyura.livejournal.com 2010-05-13 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh, it's like they're taking lessons from us :(

On a more trivial note, WTF is up with Duceppe's accent? He sounds like Nigel the Pelican from Finding Nemo. Or is that a translator because he was addressing Parliament in French-- if so, why did they get an Australian to translate?