Keith Ashfield - Conservative Candidate for Fredericton

I just picked up our mail and was very pleased to receive a brochure from our incumbent member of parliament Keith Ashfield who is standing for re-election on May 2nd.  Right the Keith, why should I vote for you?

"Real leadership is needed"  Please define and tell me why you are it.

"This is not an ordinary election.  Our economy is recovering from the worst recession in decades, but the recovery is till fragile and vunerable to things beyond our control"   O.K.  granted.  I'll give you that one.  But, why should I vote for you and not one of the other guys?  What are you going to do Keith?

"Under Conservative leadership, Canada is stronger now, both at home and abroad.  Our stature and respect in the world have been restored, and our pride as a nation renewed."   What?  I din't realise everyone had hated us.  I know that we failed to win that seat on the Security Council , but that only happened recently.  Was that a sign of our growing stature in the world?  Oh, you must be referring to our stand on environmental issues, wait, no that's not it.  Ahh, the G8 and G20 summits!  That's it, where we spent all that money and beat up those protestors.  Yes, that's it, now I'm with you.

Then we have a list of 24 projects funded by the Feds in this riding and other local Conservative ridings to the tune of almost $35million.  Some of these projects are a bit dubious.  Why did we give the Maugerville United Baptist Church $50,000 or UNB $100,000 for CIS hockey nationals?  To be fair though, most of the funding seems to be normal government handouts - $7.9 million to UNB's new Human Performance Lab and $4million to build a ne Community College.  But guess what Keith, first of all that's our money, not the Conservatives, and second, anybody can give money away.  You don't need "Real Leadership" to do that.  Hey, give me a few million and see if I can pick some good projects out of a hat.

"Re-elect Keith Ashfield"  Come on Keith, you are going to have to come up with something better than that. 

Now when are my Liberal and NDP candiates going to leave me something?