I am a mom to several little children, a wife to a hard working public school vice principal, and i voted for you to be our prime minister - but since you've been in power it has been one slap after another to decent people.

We are in an economic recession, and your tax scheme refiguring has not changed one bit (in fact, we are doing worse under you than we were under the Liberals) - we are still being grossly overcharged for the "crime" of being married and caring for our children without handouts.

We are still forced to pay, through our taxes, for other women's "choice" to abort their babies - 100 000 a year.

We are still forced to pay, through our taxes, for other women's "choice" not to care for their own children, but to leave them in the hands of the lowest bidder.

When will this end?  When will some sanity enter into Canadian politics?  Not everything is the government's business.

We need government to provide infrastructure in terms of sustainable energy development, roads, and preserving Canadian history.  We need courts and police.  But we get gay pride parades and abortion, and "art" that is mechanically made poop.  

I live in Alberta.  Last summer my children were virtually under house arrest, because of a rash of crimes against children in my area.  One man (Robert Wingie) has been sentenced, just shy of a year later - he sexually assaulted two women and abducted a child (all in the same day) - his sentence?  Time served and seven month's probation.  Why do you not protect the innocent?  Why do you punish good people?  Why are you so free with the money my husband works so hard to earn, to provide for his family?

Please keep people like us in mind next time you are asked for a half a million, or a billion, dollars, to "celebrate" some group or bail out another.  Not everything is in your purview.  Concentrate on the necessities, cut the fat.

We were told this year we needed to pay 1500$ dollars in tax in addition to what was already taken off my husband's paycheck every month - easily the hugest chunk and far more than the 10% God asks for.  Although we called in, there was no explanation, except that the man answering the question told us it was a "negligible amount".  For a one income family with seven children, it's not.  And if it is a negligible amount for that man, the whole civil service needs an overhaul and a serious pay decrease.

Please, come to your senses.  The Liberals made such a fuss about your "hidden agenda".  I think your hidden agenda might be that you are more a socialist than they are.

Your frustrated constituent,