加拿大的聯邦大選剛剛結束，執政近十年由Stephen Harper（哈珀）帶領的保守黨被自由黨奪得過半數議席擊敗。哈珀執政期間一直降低徵稅，而更多的減稅措施也成了他競選連任的承諾。儘管如此，近年反對哈珀的聲音十分強烈，甚至不少地方都有被惡搞成「Stop Harper」的交通標誌。

你可能覺得奇怪，一個不斷減稅的政府，為何會引來那麼強烈的不滿？大選前有人在Facebook登了一封給哈珀的公開信，結果被瘋傳超過三萬次。這封信道出了不少加拿大人的心聲，也解釋了他們對政府的不滿。公開信節錄如下：

「．．．我們是你經濟措施中穫益最多的人，但我們不會投你保守黨一票。

看，你太不瞭解我們了！是的，我們享受現在的生活水平，我們也為此辛勞工作，但這不是我們唯一重視的事。

你以為我們不關心我們的原住民鄰居，和那些想把家人從戰亂國家帶來加拿大的人；你以為我們不關心那些比較不幸的國民，不關心退伍軍人和科學家； 你以為我們不介意為省下少少金錢而去取消人口普查，丟掉數十年的研究．．．你以為我們不再想我們的河流和湖泊得到保護，不明白氣候變化的危機．．．

你太低估我們了！

．．．我們不會為銀行戶口去投票，但我們會為改變去投票，因為我們要把年青時那個有關懷愛心的加拿大帶回來。」

"...We're the picture of the family who benefits the most from your economic policies. But we're not voting Conservative on October 19th.

You see, you've misjudged us. We enjoy our standard of living, we work hard for it but it's not the only thing that matters to us.

You assume we don't care about our first nations neighbours, or Canadians trying to bring their family members here from war torn countries. That we don't care about less fortunate Canadians, our veterans, or scientists. You think we don't mind that to save a few bucks and balance the books we axed the census, dumped decades of research from our libraries... You figure we no longer want our lakes and rivers protected and that we don't understand that climate change is a far greater risk to our way of life...

You've underestimated us.

On October 19, we're not voting for our bank balance. We're voting for change because we want the caring Canada of our youth back."