Who Will Speak for Canada ?
Now that we are in the throes of a Winter Election Campaign, the question begs an answer.
The Liberals are the Party of Economic Continentalism, par excellence:
- they play with Nationalism when it suits their agenda
- they are lukewarm to the Commonwealth
- they are the Party of Moral & Political Relativism
- they are obsessed with Power, for Power's sake
I guess that rules them out ...
The Conservatives (such as they "call" themselves ...) have been taken OVER by the Continentalists, and are for greater and deeper integration with the USA:
- their leaders are lukewarm to Canadian traditions and institutions (Monarchy, CBC etc ...)
- they are manipulated via Harper and his "Calgary School" sell-outs
(see: http://wrf.ca/comment/article.cfm?ID=137)
- they are hypnotised by Free-Market ideology
I guess that rules them out ...
The New Democrats are Socialists:
- they hate Canadian traditions and institutions (Monarchy, the Armed Services etc ...)
- they propagate class warfare and envy
- the live for racial identity politics
- they are blinkered by Socialist ideology
I never saw them as an alternative anyway.
Perhaps the Progressive Canadian Party (see link to the right side of page) is the one we should all be taking a second look at. I have never heard of their Leaders and Leadership. I don't know if David Orchard is affiliated with them. All I know about them, is that they are Tories who do not like Harper's CPC, and the Calgary School. They are seemingly moderate about Canada's many policy options. They seem respectful of our Customs and Traditions.
They tried to register the name "Tory Party" with Elections Canada, but EC thought that it would confuse too many voters. How allowing the CPC a claim to the term Tory, when they are most obviously not Tories seems more confusing to me, than allowing a reassignation of the name/term.
Hopefully, they will gain some publicity in this election. Hopefully, they are the "real-deal." It would be nice to be able to vote for Candidates who speak for Canada - and her Traditions.
posted by Aeneas the Younger @ 2:02 pm
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7 Comments:
Have you considered the Green Party? Their leader used to be a PC.
declan:
While I support environmentally-friendly policies, I suspect that they may be too left-wing on social issues for most Red Tories. I will investigate however ...
Thanks.
I was once an ex PC but have since moved to the Green Party. There are actually a number of former PC'ers who are members. This is where we stand.
Where We Stand
Message from Green Party of Canada leader Jim Harris
In the 2004 federal election, the Green Party of Canada changed the face of Canadian politics. For the first time, Canadians were introduced to the Green Party's way of doing politics. Defying expectations, we fielded a full slate of 308 candidates and made certain that every Canadian had an opportunity to cast a vote for social progress, environmental sustainability, and governmental accountability. And a record number of Canadians, almost 600,000, joined with us in that vision.
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Leader
Green Party of Canada
The Green Party vision
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Will the Progressive Canadians have a candidate in Kings-Hants against Scott Brison? We are thinking green too. At least we can agree with what they stand for and hope for honest debate to consensus on the rest. They don't have a snowball's chance of course even in a winter election!
As a tory, I cannot agree with all things "green;" however I can hope that the PCP's will get their act together and run a full slate of candidates.
ATY
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