Dear Mr. Layton,
With all due respect for you and the NDP, we question the wisdom to hope for the leopard to change its spots.
Mr. Harper has shown nothing less then contempt for women, by reducing their budget, closing their programs, forcing us to work harder just to keep our services to our clients (children, old people, single mothers, etc.) on a shoe string, and Mr. Layton, you who have been our champion all these years, are seen to be negotiating with Mr. Harper on the budget.
If he were to meet your budgetary demands, it would be like throwing a bone in your direction, a symbolic gesture in order to have you accept the budget, but behind the scenes, he will continue to dismantle the structures through which we work. This is his intent, and using anyone to achieve this is his plan.
Even if in the face of it, if looks like politically expedient to negotiate with Mr. Harper, the fact is that it would sink the NDP as people will see it as a failure to stand up against the very person who is crushing democracy in Canada. Better be seen to side with Mr. Ignatieff than to be seen siding with Mr. Harper. I say this because most people we meet say they will vote Liberal (even NDP members) just because they stand a better chance of getting rid of Mr. Harper. That is the ultimate and urgent goal for many Canadians.
Please, Mr. Layton, do agree to meet up with the leaders of the Greens, the Bloc Q and the Liberals and other smaller parties like CAP,and try somehow to work out an agreement to push for a vote of no confidence and get Mr. Harper to answer for his gross mismanagement of our tax payers money, and other 'crimes' against the people of Canada. Particularly toxic is the manner in which Mr. Harper is letting Corporate America, through Alberta, take over our country.
Hoping beyond hope for leaders like you to put Canadians before party politics,
Sincerely
Esther Matharu
Women's Alliance Party/Parti alliance femmes
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