DARK AGES

There was a time not so long ago that Canada was the envy of the world we had natural resources a highly educated people, we built things the rest of the world were in awe off. 
Those were the days that Canada had a government that believed in Canada and Canadians, they built things like the Avro-Arrow, that was a time when the whole aviation world’s eyes were on Canada the, Arrow was designed and built specifically for Canadian military reqirements and was the most advanced aircraft in the world, as such the Arrow didn’t have a lot of buyers but with Canada’s proven expertise in the aircraft industry Canada should have been a leader in aircraft and areo-space design today, unfortunately Canada elected a Conservative government under John Diefenbaker who did not believe in Canadian ingenuity and place in the world and canceled the Avro-Arrow and the Iroquois engine program. The tragedy for Canadians was though we demonstrated phenomenal success we were never able to reap the benefits thanks to a CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT. 
So instead of a boom in  the aerospace industry Canada suffered the biggest brain drain in it’s history with 50,000 highly skilled workers leaving the country with one going to NASA and helping get them to the moon and another going to Europe and designing the Concord jet to name a couple, subsequently setting Canada’s aero-space and aircraft industry back decades, and costing Canada multi-billions of dollars and thousands of high paying jobs. 

The sad conclusion to this debacle was that Canada ended up buying the Bomarc-B missile which were nothing more than giant paperweights and because we were now totally dependent on America for our military aircraft we ended up with F-101 Voodoos that not only cost more than the Arrow but were a Mack1 aircraft as opposed to the Mack 2 Arrow.

Sadly this whole scenario is playing itself out again with not surprisingly another Conservative Prime Minister only this time it is with the whole scientific field, Canada’s Prime Minister simply does not believe in science and has chosen to fire scientists and cut back funding in every in field of science. Scientists are the very people that the world needs to find the answers to pull us out of this downward spiral mankind finds itself in. What will Canada do after all the scientists have left for greener pastures, do you really think they are just going to take a job flipping hamburgers at MacDonald’s until Canada elects a sane government?
In May 8 2008 the Conservative government thought it would once again deliver a gut shot to the Canadian areo-space industry and let the Americans take over MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates a Richmond BC Canadian aero-space company employing over 3000 people, MDA are the people that built the Canada space arm and the Radar-sat satellite and I would imagine have thousands of important patents not to mention highly skilled workers, it was only after a major public outcry that Commissar Harper grudgingly nixed the sale thus stopping another major brain, technology drain. These people are only interested in exploiting Canadas raw resources and then not even interested in doing any Canadian value adding to these un-renewable resources.  

Canada’s government consistently instead of using the massive brain power this county is blessed with and being on the cutting edge of green technology has thrown all it’s eggs in the dirty oil basket, to the detriment of every other job and occupation in Canada, and just sell the whole country outright. 

Canada’s government has decided to take Canada back to the dark ages.