Harper’s Defeat Has Taken Some Of The Scare Out Of Halloween

By Doug Draper

On the Eve of this Halloween I was beginning to wonder if I was getting to old for the whole ghosts and goblins thing because it just doesn’t seem as spooky anymore.

Then I turned on the radio to news of the upcoming swearing in of Justin Trudeau as Canada’s 23^rd Prime Minister and I remembered why so much of the shiver is gone.

In just a few more days – this coming Wednesday, November 4^th, to be exact – Harper will no long be in the Prime Minister’s Office, cooking up all those tales about Liberals and New Democrats groveling for power so they can o tax us to back to the Stone Age and bankrupt the country, or about Trudeau wanting to unleash reefer madness on us by seting up pot shops in every neighbourhood, or about how there will be terrorists hiding under our beds if we don’t go on bombing countries populated with brown people.

Now that’s the kind of teeth-chattering stuff you want to lay on a person’s doorstep on Halloween, and it won’t be as spooky without Harper around. Unless you happen to live in Ontario where we still have a provincial government – hell-bent on selling off chunks of our public power system to the private sector, beginning as early as this coming November 5^th – to give us the jitters.

But that’s not for a few more days and aside from the usual political critics, there doesn’t seem to be to be too much of a public uproar over it. That won’t happen until the hydro rates go through the roof again, and by then it will be too late.

So for now, here’s wishing you more treats than tricks this Halloween.

And here’s hoping to catch you back on Niagara At Large for more news and commentary when all the flying monkeys are gone. Not that they ever completely disappear.

• Doug Draper

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