Kris Sims writes this about “urban aprons” in today’s Post. She makes the claim that there is a fair amount in Harper’s electioneering meant to woo this vote. If you recall “Zoe”–she was the type of urban female voter the Harper government decided they would never win–Sims calls this type of voter Zoe’s older sister, or the “urban apron vote.”
That’s right: the federal Conservatives want the Urban Apron vote — they just aren’t admitting it out loud. The Prime Minister has been making announcements about health, safety and product regulation throughout his extended stay in minority government, often getting his non-threatening Milhouse of a Health Care Minister, Tony Clement, to deliver the feel-good news.
She lists a bunch of things the Conservatives are promising–I admit, I’ve heard of none of them and in my experience, if you are Zoe’s older sister, you’re not listening, either. It is just too “uncool” to vote Conservative for many in this downtown core. (I’m writing from Toronto today. Yesterday I gave a pro-life talk at beautiful Hart House at UofT–just down the way there was some sort of organic food fair, and Mayor Miller was outside. For the organic food, not the pro-life stuff. Sigh.)
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I guess my ambivalent attitude towards the PC’s is based on them offering to embroider my apron, without the apron. I can’t make myself be ‘enthused’ about them until they commit to life issues.
I know, its the politics of a minority position blah,blah, blah – but frankly, at my age (not quite 50) I am dying to hear someone in Canada take an actual stand on something essentially important. Who cares about child care without children… I have mine, but where are the others that my children should be playing with?
We used to live in an economically (practically) dead town on the south shore of NS. My husband was principal of both the elementary and highschools. Since we moved, the economy is much the same, but the school population has been almost halved. In seven years!
Guts. I’m craving a display of guts.
It makes the American election soooo much more interesting.
This is not to say that there aren’t any decent candidates, you just have to live in that ‘lucky’ riding. And to tell the truth, since my regrets at not being able to vote for Trudeau because I wasn’t quite eighteen, (yeah, I’m THAT generation) I have voted for the best candidate (for life issues) regardless of party. Just as I can’t bring my kids to a doctor who refers others to doctors who will kill their babies, I can’t trust a politician who won’t talk about the biggest tragedy and loss of life ever – being funded by tax dollars- and perpetuated by myths. I can’t vote for those I don’t trust.
Apparantly, if you don’t have a suitable candidate in your riding, you can record it on your ballot as a non-vote, and the reason. Supposedly they get tallied.
I laughed at the juxtoposition of the organic fair to abortion issues. It is not funny, except in a cynical sense. Those who do not want one ounce of pesticide or herbicide sprayed in gardens and fields think nothing of killing babies with chemicals inside their bodies and/or filling their bodies and waterways with tons of estrogen and other hormones from birth control pills. I wonder if any of these chemicals will ever be brought up at organic fairs? If all farming except organic was banned, would birth control pills be banned as well?
I second your sigh by the way….