Are you kidding me??

So not to turn this sweet blog about my beautiful son in to a political rant page, but I just have to voice my opinion on something.

Yesterday our Provincial Opposition Leader Kevin Taft announced his carefully masterminded plan to change our province's "official sport" to Rodeo... 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!!!  Does any one else see anything fundamentally wrong with this?

1.) Mr Taft, you want to change our provincial sport to something that I don't believe qualifies as a "sport" and which is viewed by many to be cruel to animals,  myself included. Don't you think a sport should involve willing participants?  How about hunting then? I'm sure there are more people who kill animals for sport then those who abuse them for sport.  Apparently Mr. Taft's favorite event is the chuckwagon races where many horses suffer broken limbs and die needlessly every year.

2.) In a province which is already viewed by the rest of the country as severely "red-neck" you want to reinforce that image by adding "rodeo" to our favorite past-times.  Some of us Mr. Taft, work very hard to get around that image.

3.) You want to waste my tax dollars and time bringing forth this stupid idea into Legislature?  I would rather see my money put to work on important issues such as health care and how are we working on fixing this bed and nurse shortage,  how about keeping youth in school and off the streets and away from drugs and crime or maybe introducing more programs to help those with mental disorders instead of turfing them to the streets.... How about those issues Mr. Taft??

But as Leader of the Opposition your biggest contribution this year will be introducing legislation to change our Provincial Sport to ....RODEO... I must say I'm really glad I voted Liberal...