A Plague on Both Their Houses

So your choice is Evangelical Christian Liberals or Conservatives. That's no choice.

In the case of Liberal Raymond Chan the Martin Government made a pre-election announcement about the Chinese Head Tax, but like their other announcements any repatriations were frozen once the election was called. It was all for show for Mr. Chan.

Now he is running against the Past President of the right wing lobby Focus on the Family, who is a Conservative. Part of the evangelical conservatives campaign to take over the Conservatives. And apparently the Liberals as this article shows.

I don't care what party they run for they have an agenda, to make Canada look like the USA. They are anti-gay, anti-women, anti-non protestant, anti-liberty, pro-America, pro-male supremacy, why do I care what party they run for. A plague on both their houses.

Multiculturalism Minister Raymond Chan, who won by 3,700 votes, is being challenged in Richmond by Darrel Reid, an articulate former senior aide to Preston Manning. Reid is already pushing two wedge issues to wrest support away from Chan in Richmond's large Chinese-Canadian community.

He says Chan's $2.5 million Chinese head tax redress package announced last week is inadequate, and Reid has made clear he is opposed to gay marriage, whereas Chan voted in favour. Both men are evangelical Christians.

The Liberals will show no mercy, however, in portraying Reid as the poster boy for the religious right. Reid was until recently president of Focus on the Family Canada, a creation of Dr. James Dobson, considered President George W. Bush's most influential evangelical Christian ally.

The Liberals will use the same approach trying to retain Don Bell's seat in North Vancouver, where the Tory candidate is Cindy Silver, who once did legal work for Focus Canada and lists at the top of her website's endorsements page the backing of former Reform MP Sharon Hayes, a Focus Canada board member.

But Silver is moderately pro-choice on abortion and is a far more telegenic politician than Conservative Ted White, who Bell upset last year by a narrow four-per-cent margin. More important, it will be tougher to portray Silver as "scary" given that both Bell, the former District of North Vancouver mayor, and Silver attend the same evangelical church.

Yep thats whats really scary the voters get to choose Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum.