Walk of Hope

Some things about my job are tough. Many things are unrewarding. I get paid way less than I ought. Loud-mouthed liberals are rude to you. I work all manner of un-billable hours.

But I still do it because some things in this job are SO worth it. Did you know that Ovarian Cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer deaths in Canada? Did you also know that Vancouver's Van Dusen Botanical Gardens is even more beautiful than Stanley Park?

Today we (I am my boss) went to the Van Dusen Botanical Gardens for Vancouver's first ever Winners Walk of Hope. There were about 300 people from all over the Lower Mainland, most of whom had been touched in some way by Ovarian Cancer. My boss read greetings from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who himself attended the Walk last year in Comox.

The appreciation showed to us by everyone there was palpable. "Thank you for your support - thank you for being here on behalf of the Prime Minister." By this small group of people, more than $37000 was raised for research to help fight this insidious disease. These are the people we are in government on behalf of.

You see, the media and the educational institutions would have you believe that the issues important to Canada are whatever the far-left lobby is hawking. Well, to Joe and Janice Canadian, they don't care about safe injection sites, and they don't see much logic is paying addicts to shoot up. They don't care about whether Theresa and Tammi are getting married, but they aren't sure why federal employees of a religious bent need to be fired for not marrying them.

To them the important issues are the Ovarian Cancer that their sister just contracted, or how their budget is going to stretch to pay for their kids sports registration, or why they ship so much of their income to the federal government to begin with. These people are the Canada that needs defending, and these are the people we will stand up for. They want safety in their homes, they want a little financial help for child-rearing but they will take care of raising the kids themselves thank you very much, and they want to get medically necessary surgery in less than 4 months, which is the wait time now.

Canada belongs to those people, not the loud-mouthed, far-left activists of the inner city. Keep up the great work Stephen - you're building the right kind of Canada for all of us.