'Apathy' The Canadian Way

Half of Canadians paid absolutely no attention to the last federal budget, despite its long list of expensive spending promises on subjects ranging from child care to the military to seniors, federal government polling suggests.

Only 49 per cent admitted they paid any attention at all to the budget, even though it drew huge political attention with spending promises aimed at winning opposition parties' support.

If more than half of the people of this country are unwilling to pay attention to how the governmet is spending our money, how on earth do they expect we keep the government accountable? Come on people, it is your money. It should be a very big concern to evey citizen. I am not saying that we the common folk should know every detail of every budget but we should at least know the basics and where the government priorities are.

Time for the people of this country to get thier heads out of the sand!