Pros And Cons Of Today's Conservative-Based Government

Source 1 is considerably critical of conservative integrity, so much so that it may have well in fact been written by Rousseau himself. Questioning the moral integrity of those who believe in conservatism, the source blatantly calls out the faults that are present even in today’s conservative based government. Implying that the conservatives are not at all concerned with the common good, the source disparages a well known fact of conservative parties; that their reputation is arguably not the most principle. Since 2006, Harper’s government has done no favours to the conservative reputation, leading the Canadian economy into a spiralling downfall of debt and overspending. Ironically, Harper’s Economic Action Plan had promised to do just the opposite. Harper’s conservative government, promising to ‘spend it’s way to economic growth’, is just the sort of “potentially beneficial” the source would label as the very reason conservatives are linked with a poor …show more content…
Those who follow Rousseau’s ideologies of the common good would also criticize the conservative mindset of the modern Canadian government, hoping for more benefit towards the people themselves and what is in their