tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18725629624082615832024-03-05T17:32:35.409-05:00Take Back the RightReclaiming Canada's Progressive Social Tradition.RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-23457626830275093722012-08-27T22:03:00.000-04:002012-08-28T16:27:37.434-04:00A "Progressive" alternative to the Neo-Cons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 16.80000114440918px;">When this blog was first created about two years ago, it's primary purpose was to bring to light the extreme, radical ideological agenda of the current Conservative Party of Canada and it's "Straussian" leader, Stephen Harper. I wanted to stress that this "new" Conservative party was<b><i> not</i></b> the Conservative party of our forefathers, that it is nothing more than the ideologically driven Ant-Canadian Reform/Alliance party that, through skillful manipulation, lies and deceit managed to lay claim to the "Conservative" name, thereby lending it a huge and entirely undeserved measure of credibility. I wanted to point out that <b><i>the CPC are "fake Conservatives".</i></b> They wish to "conserve" nothing of our democratic or socially responsible tradition. They are <i><b>not </b></i>Tories, they are <i><b>not</b></i> Progressives and I seriously doubt their credibility as Canadian citizens given their apparent intention to change Canada beyond all recognition. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 16.80000114440918px;">When the Reformists succeeded in stealing the Conservative name back in 2003, they promptly dropped the "progressive" label. Though the old party adhered to capitalistic fiscal and economic policies,the "Progressive" moniker honored the PCs belief in responsible social and environmental policies. The CPC most certainly do not and many of the PCs, recognizing this, refused to have anything to do with the new abomination that was spawned by the Unite the Right movement. Former Prime Minister Joe Clark chose to sit out his remaining time in Parliament as a Progressive Conservative</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 16.80000114440918px;"> rather than join Stephen Harper in his quest to destabilize and ultimately, destroy Canada's social and democratic institutions and system of beliefs. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 16.80000114440918px;">Rather than recognize the merger of the two political entities to the right of centre, t</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 16.80000114440918px;">he Honorable Sinclair Stevens, a former Cabinet Minister in the Government of Brian Mulroney joined with several of his Progressive compatriots to form the </span><b style="line-height: 16.80000114440918px;"><i><u>Progressive Canadian Party</u></i></b><span style="line-height: 16.80000114440918px;">. While this new party remains low profile and has garnered little in the way of attention from the main stream media to date, it's goal is to offer moderate Conservatives a viable alternative to the radical agenda of the CPC. It aims to restore the <b><i><u>"PC"</u></i></b> alternative at the federal level. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 16.80000114440918px;">While I don't necessarily endorse this new <b><i><u>PC</u></i></b> alternative, I believe it's existence is essential to the democratic process in this country. Since the unification of the political right in Canada, there has been only one voice for Conservatives; Stephen Harper's, whose iron-fisted dictatorial rule of both his party and the country have stifled the voices of the true Canadian Tories, the moderate, Progressive Conservatives. These voices, the voices of reason, must be allowed to be heard once again on Parliament Hill because they are reflective of the millions of Conservative Canadian citizens whose values are not currently represented by the CPC. It's time for the oppressive reign of the CPC to end.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 16.80000114440918px;">The new <b><i><u>PC</u></i></b> party is fielding a candidate in the upcoming Calgary Centre bi-election. Below is a statement from Sinclair Stevens and a brief bio of the<b><i><u> PC</u></i></b> candidate, Ben Christensen: </span></span></span></div>
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<i><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.80000114440918px;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">For Immediate Release August 27, 2012<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />Newmarket, Ont. - </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The Honourable Sinclair Stevens, Leader of the Progressive Canadian Party, is pleased to announce that the PC Party will be running local businessman Ben Christensen as the first True Tory candidate in Calgary Centre since former prime minister Joe Clark was the riding's Progressive Conservative MP.<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />The Progressive Canadian Party was registered in early 2004 by Progressive Conservatives as the continuation of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. It provides Canadians with a genuine Tory alternative to the provincialism, continentalism, and neoconservatism of the party led by Stephen Harper. With "PC Party" on the ballot, it continues to offer policy directions consistent with those of progressive-conservative prime ministers from Sir John A Macdonald onward. <br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />The Calgary Centre by-election is expected this fall following the resignation of CPC MP Lee Richardson on 31 May. Richardson left the Harper caucus to become principal secretary to Alberta's Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford <br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />Mr. Christensen, a local Calgary businessman and recently in the news as the litigation advisor to the Occupy Calgary protesters, was quick to note the continuing ideological divisions between former Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party turned Canadian Alliance turned CPC and has been somewhat amused by attempts to dismiss the divisions between old Reformers and PCs as mythology.<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />"Stephen Harper is described as a libertarian not a conservative by commentators like CTV's Craig Oliver, certainly not as a progressive-conservative, and Harper's firewall federalism, which he terms "classical federalism", is actually American, the opposite of the Tory vision of a united Canada.<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />"The newly nominated Harper candidate in Calgary Centre is identified with the Wild Rose Alliance, and that's not Progressive Conservative - nor the choice of Calgarians or Albertans," Christensen concluded. <br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />PC Party Leader Stevens continued, "Ben will, over the next several weeks and into the election, be seeking opportunities to meet with his fellow Calgarians to discuss several issues of both local and national interest. Watch for him!"</span></i><br />
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For more information on the issues raised above:<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />The Hon. 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cursor: pointer; line-height: 20.399999618530273px;">smstevens@epla.net</a> <br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />BEN CHRISTENSEN BIOGRAPHY :<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" />Ben Christensen is a true blood Calgarian. After graduating from high school in southern Alberta, Christensen returned to his home roots in Calgary to pursue his passion for business as a youth entrepreneur. His later involvement with the Occupy Calgary movement and his passion for human rights made him a recognized leader in the community as human rights advocate. <br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /> He founded a well known automotive business in the Calgary area and continues to contribute and dedicate much of his time to preserving equality and human rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and freedoms, believing that the veterans of our country who fought for these freedoms deserve to be respected and given better support within the community.<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /> His involvement in the business community and his belief that small business is the root of economic progress have earned him acknowledgement with the founders of organizations like the Canadian Shoppers Club and the Corporate Group of Allied Associates and The Remarkable Man Project groups with which he actively participates and in which he holds membership.<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /> As a new face in the political community Christensen states that he is here for the people of Calgary to listen and respond to their concerns. As a genuine True Tory Christensen has vowed that he will work to restore the public trust in government and leadership that has been tarnished by the neo-Con agenda.<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /> "I am a Calgarian and I value the feedback and opinions of my fellow Calgarians. This is why I believe it is time to let Calgary have a voice instead of being graced by the occasional chinook of hot air we have been getting from some of our current representatives."<br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /> Christensen will be appearing over the next several weeks to homes and events in the Calgary Center riding to meet his fellow Calgarians and hear about their concerns and feedback.</i><br style="line-height: 20.399999618530273px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Give Stephen Harper credit for one thing, he is driven and he is relentless. It was his opinion and that of Reformist architect Preston Manning (and several other Neo-Con, Western, Evangelicals) that the Mulroney led Progressive Conservative Party of the Eighties didn't speak for them. To them, the PCs were far too "Liberal" in their actions and not representative of Western Canada, specifically Alberta. The Social Credit Party of Ernest Manning, Preston's Father, had all but disappeared and so did the voice of the far-right- Western Separatists. Hence, the creation of the Reform Party of Canada in 1987. It was to this party that a young WASP Evangelical - "Steve" Harper - was attracted and as National Campaign Manager in 1988, saw him, coin the election slogan "The West Wants In". </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>But the Reform Party of Preston Manning could never shake the perception of being a narrow minded, extremest party despite gaining Official Opposition Status during the Chretien years. It was a purely Western-centric group who couldn't buy a seat east of Manitoba, even after changing it's Name to the euphemistic <i>Alliance Party of Canada</i>. The Alliance's first leader, Stockwell Day, being an adherent of Young Earth Creationism (which holds that men walked with dinosaurs among other such nonsense) proved to be </b></span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">an embarrassment and </b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a huge disappointment. This set the stage for the ascendancy of Steve Harper, the Great Western Hope in 2002. </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>It was during the time between the end of the Mulroney years in 1993 and the unification of the "Right" in 2003 that the Progressive Conservatives, or Red Tories all but lost their political voices. The PCs had been reduced to third and fourth party status during the Chretien years and many traditional Tories felt they had more in common with the Liberals than with the bizarre collection of Reformist Neo-Cons from the West. Despite the fact that the Right was fractured between the two political entities, the faltering Progressive Conservatives still preferred to cling to their autonomy and hence their own voice, weak as it was, as opposed to jumping into bed with the Reformists. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>But then the unthinkable happened, The Progressive Conservatives were betrayed by their own leader, Peter MacKay in 2003 who sought merger with the Neo-Cons. But at the time of the merger, the PCs were so weakened that they were gobbled up by the ravenous, power hungry Alliance led by Stephen Harper. Harper and his band of Neo-Cons were then free to appropriate the Conservative name and anoint Harper himself as the savior of the political Right. And by gaining the Conservative name (after promptly dropping the "Progressive" label), Harper and his Western-centric group of radicals now had the illusion of credibility they never had before and were able to fool voters in Central and Eastern Canada into thinking that the Conservative Party of Canada (as the new Reformist abomination came to be known as) was the same Conservative Party of Diefenbaker, Stanfield and Mulroney. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Many of the old PCs who joined the united Right bandwagon erroneously believed that the Tory voice would once again echo throughout the Halls of Parliament. It was their chance to regain power and to punish and ultimately extinguish the Liberal Party for becoming all too cocky in their belief that they were the "natural" governing party in Canada. But as time has passed, from 2003 until now, and as the Harper led Conservatives have gone from Minority to Majority Government status, it has become all too apparent that the old moderate PCs- the "Red" Tories and the socially progressive Conservatives- have in fact, lost their voices all together. They have been all but choked off by the autocratic Harper and his "Gestapo-like" staff at the PMO. There is one voice and only one voice in the current Conservative Party and that belongs to Stephen Harper. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Harper controls his party with an iron fist and there is no room what so ever for dissenting voices. Anyone who dares speak out against the government is attacked, discredited, fired and ultimately silenced. Conservative MPs who don't spout the CPC talking points and rhetoric at every turn are "re-educated". This is nowhere as apparent as with the recent passage of bill C-38. Back-benchers such as David Wilks, who expressed any reservation about the monstrously undemocratic bill quickly had their individuality erased and were reduced to "cheer-leader" status during the subsequent voting in the House. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Harper's performance and the lack of ethical behaviour by his party is beginning to stir up dissent among some grass-roots Conservatives including previous PC Ministers and Provincial counterparts. They know this party that is Conservative in name only (and certainly undeserving of the Tory label which the media has bestowed upon them) does not speak for them. It is clear to them that the Ideologically driven pro-reformists in the party have no tolerance for political moderates. And though this is still early days as far as the Harper majority goes, the possibility of a palace revolt is not out of the question. At the very least, it could well lead to the political Right becoming splintered once more as Progressive Conservatives seek to distance them selves from the tyrannical Harper. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Which brings me back to my original statement about unification of the Political Left. It seems to me, and it is only my opinion, that the motivation for unification of the Left is identical to the reasons that saw the political Right become a single entity. The Liberals and New Democrats joining forces would serve one purpose and one purpose only, to overthrow the Harperites - much as the PCs and Alliance came together with the express purpose of deposing the Chretien Liberals. But if the parties of the left do join forces and manage to overthrow King Stephen, then What?? A unified Left would theoretically represent a broad spectrum of people- What Michael Ingatieff referred to as the "Big Red Tent". What would their mandate be? Who's voice would be dominant? Would it be the Centrist Liberals? The more Socialist inclined NDP? Would merger eliminate the Socialist voice in favour of a more corporate friendly entity? And what of the environmentally conscious Greens? </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Personally</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, I think there is not only room, but an absolute need for all of these so-called "Leftist" voices to be heard in our House of Commons. And yes, I even think there is room for progressive Tories as well. It is called balance, it is giving voice to all Canadian people and their various beliefs. No one segment of society has the right to bulldoze the others in the name of it's own ideology, thinking that theirs is the only right system of beliefs and that all the others are wrong. Democracy is about consensus building, about doing what is right for the collective, not the selective few. Therefore the more disparate voices that can be heard in the House of Commons, the better. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>If the political Left were seeking to join forces in order to build on their strengths and commonalities, I would be all in favour of it. However, the voices of unification are being raised for one purpose only, to defeat something, to overcome something, to gain power, not to create something better that might be all inclusive. Therefore, I believe the Left should remain the way it is. All the many and varied voices in the vast political tapestry to the Left of Center are far too valuable to be gobbled up and packed into one all encompassing and vague entity just as the Harperites cannot hope to ever speak for all the people who are truly Conservative of one variety or another.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>I recommend then, that instead of the parties of the Left joining forces, they should seek to strengthen their identities, hone their messages, reaffirm the values that they hold to be true - <i>and wait</i>. For eventually, the Government of Harper will self-destruct as more and more grass-roots Conservatives decide they have had enough of the the One Man Band that claims to speak for them. The Political Right will once again divide itself as those voices that have been suppressed for so long, seek to be heard once again. </b></span><br />
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RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-48564150406040904232012-06-04T07:55:00.000-04:002012-06-04T07:55:06.312-04:00Silence is Not an Option<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-32015055752879696002012-05-27T22:07:00.000-04:002012-05-27T22:07:46.039-04:00Can we find 13 Conservative MPs to Vote against C-38?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Can we find 13 Conservative MPs (the PC kind, not the Reformist kind) who are fed up with the Harper regime? Surely some of the Old-School Progressive Conservatives must be aghast at what The Government of Harper is doing to Canada? Surely there must be any number of backbenchers who are tired of being Bullied by Harper and the PMO? Surely there must be numerous Conservative MPs who's conscience is not letting them sleep at night, who are ashamed of the corruption? We only need 13 of them to <i><b>"do the right thing"</b></i> and oppose the repressive Harperites and vote against C-38. Better yet, Are there 13 willing to cross the floor or to become independents? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Hint: I wouldn't bother with Ted Optiz (Etobicoke Centre)</i></span><br />
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Egmont</div>
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MP - Gail Shea</div>
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MP - Peter MacKay</div>
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South Shore - St. Margaret's</div>
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MP - Gerald Keddy</div>
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West Nova</div>
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MP - Keith Ashfield</div>
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Fundy Royal</div>
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MP - Rob Moore</div>
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Madawaska - Restigouche</div>
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MP - Bernard Valcourt</div>
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Miramichi</div>
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MP - Tilly O'Neill-Gordon</div>
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Moncton - Riverview - Dieppe</div>
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MP - Robert Goguen</div>
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New Brunswick Southwest</div>
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MP - John Williamson</div>
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Saint John</div>
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MP - Rodney Weston</div>
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Tobique - Mactaquac</div>
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MP - Michael Allen</div>
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<b>Quebec</b></div>
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Beauce</div>
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MP - Maxime Bernier</div>
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Lévis - Bellechasse</div>
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MP - Steven Blaney</div>
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Lotbinière - Chutes-de-la-Chaudière</div>
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MP - Jacques Gourde</div>
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Mégantic - L'Érable</div>
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MP - Christian Paradis</div>
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Roberval - Lac-Saint-Jean</div>
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MP - Denis Lebel</div>
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<b>Ontario</b></div>
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Ajax - Pickering</div>
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MP - Chris Alexander</div>
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Ancaster - Dundas - Flamborough - Westdale</div>
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MP - David Sweet</div>
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Barrie</div>
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MP - Patrick Brown</div>
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Bramalea - Gore - Malton</div>
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MP - Bal Gosal</div>
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Brampton - Springdale</div>
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MP - Parm Gill</div>
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Brampton West</div>
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MP - Kyle Seeback</div>
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Brant</div>
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MP - Phil McColeman</div>
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Bruce - Grey - Owen Sound</div>
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MP - Larry Miller</div>
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Burlington</div>
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MP - Mike Wallace</div>
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Cambridge</div>
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MP - Gary Goodyear</div>
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Carleton - Mississippi Mills</div>
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MP - Gordon O'Connor</div>
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Chatham-Kent - Essex</div>
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MP - David Van Kesteren</div>
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Don Valley East</div>
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MP - Joe Daniel</div>
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Don Valley West</div>
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MP - John Carmichael</div>
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Dufferin - Caledon</div>
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MP - David Tilson</div>
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Durham</div>
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MP - Bev Oda</div>
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Eglinton - Lawrence</div>
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MP - Joe Oliver</div>
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Elgin - Middlesex - London</div>
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MP - Joe Preston</div>
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Essex</div>
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MP - Jeff Watson</div>
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Etobicoke - Lakeshore</div>
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MP - Bernard Trottier</div>
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Etobicoke Centre</div>
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MP - Ted Opitz</div>
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Glengarry - Prescott - Russell</div>
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MP - Pierre Lemieux</div>
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Haldimand - Norfolk</div>
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MP - Diane Finley</div>
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Haliburton - Kawartha Lakes - Brock</div>
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MP - Barry Devolin</div>
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Halton</div>
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MP - Lisa Raitt</div>
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Huron - Bruce</div>
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MP - Ben Lobb</div>
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Kenora</div>
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MP - Greg Rickford</div>
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Kitchener - Conestoga</div>
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MP - Harold Albrecht</div>
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Kitchener - Waterloo</div>
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MP - Peter Braid</div>
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Kitchener Centre</div>
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MP - Stephen Woodworth</div>
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Lambton - Kent - Middlesex</div>
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MP - Bev Shipley</div>
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Lanark - Frontenac - Lennox and Addington</div>
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MP - Scott Reid</div>
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Leeds - Grenville</div>
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MP - Gord Brown</div>
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London North Centre</div>
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MP - Susan Truppe</div>
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London West</div>
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MP - Ed Holder</div>
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Mississauga - Brampton South</div>
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MP - Eve Adams</div>
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Mississauga - Erindale</div>
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MP - Bob Dechert</div>
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Mississauga - Streetsville</div>
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MP - Brad Butt</div>
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Mississauga East - Cooksville</div>
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MP - Wladyslaw Lizon</div>
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Mississauga South</div>
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MP - Stella Ambler</div>
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Nepean - Carleton</div>
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MP - Pierre Poilievre</div>
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Newmarket - Aurora</div>
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MP - Lois Brown</div>
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Niagara Falls</div>
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MP - Rob Nicholson</div>
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Niagara West - Glanbrook</div>
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MP - Dean Allison</div>
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Nipissing - Timiskaming</div>
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MP - Jay Aspin</div>
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Northumberland - Quinte West</div>
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MP - Rick Norlock</div>
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Oak Ridges - Markham</div>
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MP - Paul Calandra</div>
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Oakville</div>
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MP - Terence Young</div>
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Oshawa</div>
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MP - Colin Carrie</div>
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Ottawa - Orléans</div>
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MP - Royal Galipeau</div>
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Ottawa West - Nepean</div>
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MP - John Baird</div>
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Oxford</div>
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MP - Dave MacKenzie</div>
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Parry Sound - Muskoka</div>
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MP - Tony Clement</div>
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Perth - Wellington</div>
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MP - Gary Schellenberger</div>
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Peterborough</div>
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MP - Dean Del Mastro</div>
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Pickering - Scarborough East</div>
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MP - Corneliu Chisu</div>
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Prince Edward - Hastings</div>
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MP - Daryl Kramp</div>
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Renfrew - Nipissing - Pembroke</div>
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MP - Cheryl Gallant</div>
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Richmond Hill</div>
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MP - Costas Menegakis</div>
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Sarnia - Lambton</div>
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MP - Patricia Davidson</div>
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Sault Ste. Marie</div>
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MP - Bryan Hayes</div>
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Scarborough Centre</div>
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MP - Roxanne James</div>
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Simcoe - Grey</div>
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MP - Kellie Leitch</div>
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Simcoe North</div>
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MP - Bruce Stanton</div>
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St. Catharines</div>
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MP - Richard Dykstra</div>
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Stormont - Dundas - South Glengarry</div>
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MP - Guy Lauzon</div>
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Thornhill</div>
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MP - Peter Kent</div>
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Vaughan</div>
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MP - Julian Fantino</div>
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Wellington - Halton Hills</div>
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MP - Michael Chong</div>
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Whitby - Oshawa</div>
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MP - Jim Flaherty</div>
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Willowdale</div>
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MP - Chungsen Leung</div>
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York - Simcoe</div>
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MP - Peter Van Loan</div>
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York Centre</div>
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MP - Mark Adler</div>
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<b>Manitoba</b></div>
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Brandon - Souris</div>
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MP - Merv Tweed</div>
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Charleswood - St. James - Assiniboia</div>
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MP - Steven Fletcher</div>
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Dauphin - Swan River - Marquette</div>
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MP - Robert Sopuck</div>
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Elmwood - Transcona</div>
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MP - Lawrence Toet</div>
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Kildonan - St. Paul</div>
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MP - Joy Smith</div>
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Portage - Lisgar</div>
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MP - Candice Hoeppner</div>
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Provencher</div>
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MP - Vic Toews</div>
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Saint Boniface</div>
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MP - Shelly Glover</div>
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Selkirk - Interlake</div>
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MP - James Bezan</div>
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Winnipeg South</div>
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MP - Rod Bruinooge</div>
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Winnipeg South Centre</div>
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MP - Joyce Bateman</div>
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<b>Saskatchewan</b></div>
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Battlefords - Lloydminster</div>
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MP - Gerry Ritz</div>
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Blackstrap</div>
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MP - Lynne Yelich</div>
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Cypress Hills - Grasslands</div>
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MP - David Anderson</div>
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Desnethé - Missinippi - Churchill River</div>
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MP - Rob Clarke</div>
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Palliser</div>
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MP - Ray Boughen</div>
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Prince Albert</div>
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MP - Randy Hoback</div>
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Regina - Lumsden - Lake Centre</div>
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MP - Tom Lukiwski</div>
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Regina - Qu'Appelle</div>
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MP - Andrew Scheer</div>
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Saskatoon - Humboldt</div>
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MP - Brad Trost</div>
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Saskatoon - Rosetown - Biggar</div>
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MP - Kelly Block</div>
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Saskatoon - Wanuskewin</div>
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MP - Maurice Vellacott</div>
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Souris - Moose Mountain</div>
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MP - Ed Komarnicki</div>
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Yorkton - Melville</div>
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MP - Garry Breitkreuz</div>
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<b>Alberta</b></div>
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Calgary - Nose Hill</div>
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MP - Diane Ablonczy</div>
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Calgary Centre</div>
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MP - Lee Richardson</div>
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Calgary Centre-North</div>
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MP - Michelle Rempel</div>
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Calgary East</div>
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MP - Deepak Obhrai</div>
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Calgary Northeast</div>
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MP - Devinder Shory</div>
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Calgary Southeast</div>
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MP - Jason Kenney</div>
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Calgary Southwest</div>
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MP - Stephen Harper</div>
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Calgary West</div>
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MP - Rob Anders</div>
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Crowfoot</div>
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MP - Kevin Sorenson</div>
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Edmonton - Leduc</div>
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MP - James Rajotte</div>
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Edmonton - Mill Woods - Beaumont</div>
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MP - Mike Lake</div>
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Edmonton - Sherwood Park</div>
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MP - Tim Uppal</div>
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Edmonton - Spruce Grove</div>
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MP - Rona Ambrose</div>
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Edmonton - St. Albert</div>
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MP - Brent Rathgeber</div>
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Edmonton Centre</div>
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MP - Laurie Hawn</div>
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Edmonton East</div>
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MP - Peter Goldring</div>
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Fort McMurray - Athabasca</div>
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MP - Brian Jean</div>
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Lethbridge</div>
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MP - Jim Hillyer</div>
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Macleod</div>
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MP - Ted Menzies</div>
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Medicine Hat</div>
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MP - Lavar Payne</div>
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Peace River</div>
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MP - Christopher Warkentin</div>
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Red Deer</div>
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MP - Earl Dreeshen</div>
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Vegreville - Wainwright</div>
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MP - Leon Benoit</div>
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Westlock - St. Paul</div>
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MP - Brian Storseth</div>
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Wetaskiwin</div>
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MP - Blaine Calkins</div>
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Wild Rose</div>
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MP - Blake Richards</div>
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Yellowhead</div>
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MP - Rob Merrifield</div>
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<b>British Columbia</b></div>
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Abbotsford</div>
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MP - Edward Fast</div>
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Cariboo - Prince George</div>
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MP - Dick Harris</div>
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Chilliwack - Fraser Canyon</div>
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MP - Mark Strahl</div>
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Delta - Richmond East</div>
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MP - Kerry Lynne Findlay</div>
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Fleetwood - Port Kells</div>
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MP - Nina Grewal</div>
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Kamloops - Thompson - Cariboo</div>
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MP - Cathy McLeod</div>
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Kelowna - Lake Country</div>
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MP - Ron Cannan</div>
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Kootenay - Columbia</div>
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MP - David Wilks</div>
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Langley</div>
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MP - Mark Warawa</div>
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Nanaimo - Alberni</div>
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MP - James Lunney</div>
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North Vancouver</div>
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MP - Andrew Saxton</div>
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Okanagan - Coquihalla</div>
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MP - Dan Albas</div>
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Okanagan - Shuswap</div>
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MP - Colin Mayes</div>
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Pitt Meadows - Maple Ridge - Mission</div>
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MP - Randy Kamp</div>
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Port Moody - Westwood - Port Coquitlam</div>
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MP - James Moore</div>
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Prince George - Peace River</div>
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MP - Bob Zimmer</div>
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Richmond</div>
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MP - Alice Wong</div>
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</div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-54426079419002246672012-05-06T17:53:00.001-04:002012-05-07T07:56:44.502-04:00Beware the "Tweeting Tory"!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I need to say right off that my use of the word "Tory" in the title above is a complete and utter misnomer. I am of course, referring to the New Conservative Party of Canada, also known as the old Reform Party of Canada. Some may think of them of the Alliance Party, but Reformists know nothing of alliances, just power, control and domination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When the Reform Party managed to steal the Conservative name from the Old Progressive Conservatives in 2003 with the help of Peter MacKay, they acquired for themselves something they never had before- the <i>illusion</i> of credibility - and the mainstream media, blithely and erroneously lent credence to that illusion by insisting on referring to this new abomination as the "Tories" instead of labeling them for what they really are, "Reformists". But that was strictly for the sake of conserving space in the head-lines instead of being more creative with their wording, much as most of us have had to become with the advent of Twitter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> So because this misnomer has become an accepted norm, I have also stooped to using it in MY headline. But make no mistake about it, this group of Reformists who claim to be Conservative are really something light-years to the political right of that and resemble nothing of what the old "Tories" stood for. Whether you agreed with their politics or not, there was at least a modicum of honor and integrity attached to that moniker. There is nothing but greed, idealism and corruption attached to the Reformists that currently pretend to be our government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I digress from the point of this post - which is to say, to all you twitterphiles out there, beware who you engage in the public domain. I know of at least three people who have had their accounts suspended, erroneously, for "spamming" after attempting to engage a Reformist in open dialogue on Twitter. It seems that rather than simply blocking the person attempting to engage them, as most civilized folk would do, the Reformist (s) saw fit to be spiteful and report them as "Spammers" instead, thus causing the engager to have his/her twitter account suspended. So much for open dialogue, public debate, freedom of expression etc. As is typical CPC fashion, these Reformists would rather suppress the exchange of ideas and attack anyone who might disagree with their ideology. Oh, and this may be totally coincidental here, but it seems the common denominator in all three of these cases is Stephan (anti-choice) Woodworth. All three people attempted to converse with him on Twitter.</span><br />
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</div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-83990511536373310592012-03-17T22:32:00.000-04:002013-04-02T21:47:39.820-04:00Don't buy Sona as "Lone Gunman" story.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When the Robo-Calls story broke some weeks ago, Michael Sona, the former Director of Communication for the Guelph Reform-a-Con campaign resigned his most recent position as assistant to Conservative MP, Eve Adams. He has never articulated his reason's for resigning and has generally remained silent on the whole Robo-Call affair except to say he wasn't involved.<br />
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It could be that Sona simply fell on his sword as die-hard Reform-a-Con staffers are prone to do from time to time, they being typically possessed of blind, zealot-like allegiance to the Party and their demigod leader, Stephen Harper. It could also be, that the party decided Sona was just the right man to throw under the wheels of the bus- the Reform-a-Cons being just as willing to sacrifice staffers for the sake of the party as staffers are willing to commit political Hara-Kiri.<br />
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But of late, opposition politicians, including a prominent NDP MP have taken to defending Sona, claiming he was nothing more than an innocent pawn in what we are now coming to understand as a nationwide campaign of voter suppression and election fraud during the May 2011 Federal Election. While it is clear that the scope of the 2011 election fraud campaign is certainly beyond that of a zealous man-child like Sona, he is far from innocent. Sona was all about voter suppression during the 2011 election. Consider:<br />
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- Sona did his level best to disrupt and otherwise put an end to an advanced polling station at Guelph University. University students typically tend to be more "left-leaning" so it was in the best interest of the local Reform-a-Con campaign to stifle the democratic right of the Guelph students to vote. Students nation-wide were beginning to become "engaged" in the political process and "vote-mobs" were being organized all across the country in an effort to encourage students to get out and vote. On the surface of it, you would think this was a <i>good</i> thing, unless of course, you happened to be the Reform-a-Con party who feared the results of these advanced polls. It was then in their best interest to SQUASH the university vote. It started with Little Mickey Sona and ended by killing most of the Vote-Mobs.<br />
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- Here's what Sona did <i>personally</i> with the Guelph poll:<br />
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-He tried to snatch the ballot out of the hands of a female student who was trying to vote.</div>
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- He then tried to snatch the actual ballot box into which the young lady was trying to vote. (It was only the quick thinking of an Elections Canada Official that prevented the theft of the </div>
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- Sona attempted to intimidate students from voting by filming them with his phone-camera as they waited in line to vote. Clearly a breach of privacy as he did not have anyone's permission to film them.<br />
- Sona personally called Elections Canada from the polling station in an effort to have them put a halt to the advanced poll. </div>
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- While still with the Guelph Campaign, Sona also arranged for Reorm-a-Con propaganda vans to be planted close to various other advanced polls, clearly in breach of the Elections Act. Once again, he was not sanctioned or out right<i> fired </i>because the propaganda was quite literally, on wheels. </div>
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- Also at other advaced Polls, Sona arranged for scrutineers to slow the voting down to a snails pace by having them take their time while scrutinizing prospective voters and ballots. This, of course, was an attempt at discouraging voters. Well intended citizens, for example, who had to take time out of their busy days would have been discouraged from voting once they saw how long the process was taking.<br />
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Sona's efforts failed to put an end to the UofG advanced poll and the 700 plus votes he tried to steal were allowed to stand. His efforts however, brought to light a technicality in the Elections Act that subsequently put an end to other University Polls, thus killing the momentum of the student-vote. Sona was never charged for his disruption of the Guelph poll or his attemts to steal ballots, a ballot box or the filming of the would-be voters. But despite these reprehensible acts, Sona remained an active back-room yes-man in the party. After the failure of the Burke campaign in Guelph, Sona signed on with Adams, a bonafide elected Conservative MP. Sona had done his job well and his star was shining brightly within the Reform-a-Con universe. </div>
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So plainly, Michael Sona was an active participant in the suppression of votes and voter rights during the 2011 Guelph campaign. He willingly crossed the line repeatedly by partaking in acts that were not just unethical, but illegal. It is not much of a stretch to then believe he was involved in some way with the Robo-calls affair. While it is clear the length and breadth of the fraudulent campaign was beyond the scope of Sona, he was far from innocent. He should not be considered the "Lone Gunman" in this affair but whether he was thrown under the wheels of the bus by his party or not, he remains guilty of Election Fraud and attempts at disrupting the democratic rights of Canadian Citizens. I'm sorry, the "Nuremberg defense doesn't apply here, that he was <i>"just following orders"</i>. He should have gone to jail in May. He deserves to go to jail now.<br />
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<b>Does this look like the kind of pose someone would strike if their love of guns revolved around hunting? Or perhaps, it's more about power, control and intimidation?</b></div>
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RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-17296109934523272502012-02-25T23:00:00.000-05:002012-03-15T17:13:11.002-04:00The Return of Michael "The Little Fascist" Sona<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For those of you who may recall, it was the little gun-loving Fascist, Michael Sona who was responsible for the disruption of the advanced polling station and near theft of a ballot box at Guelph University during the 2011 Federal Election. The point being to suppress the University vote which tends to be more left-leaning. His actions of course, set a precedent for all advanced polls at all Universities across the country and voter suppression, along with the wide spread dissemination of misinformation and fear-mongering became a central theme and tactic in the eventual Conservative victory<br />
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Nothing came from little Mickey's actions that Spring. No charges were leveled, and no one was held accountable. But that entire election was pock-marked by allegations of dirty tricks, vandalism and suppression of the media, all at the hands of the quasi-Tories (a party that is Conservative in name only, the name having been usurped by the carviverous Reform/Alliance Party in 2003). And no one seemed to care, least of all the voters....until now.<br />
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Finally, <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/opposition-leaders-vow-maintain-pressure-tories-over-alleged-203637621.html">opposition parties</a> are following up on allegations of wide-spread automated phone campaigns that may have cost opposition parties a number of seats, particularly in vote-rich Ontario. Of course, the Reform-a-Cons are countering with their own allegations as they are seldom prone to accepting responsibility for their actions (plausible deniability and slander being the order of the day) and the name of Mickey Sona has surfaced once again. He has apparently been termed a "Tory Staffer" who has resigned in the wake of the "Dirty Tricks" scandal which Liberal Leader Bob Rae has called "Nixonian" in nature.<br />
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Tory staffers are, of course, expendable and are routinely thrown under the wheels of the bus in order to divert shame from the party, the PMO or Harper himself. But also what has become routine, is for resigned Tory staffers to be quietly rehired once the heat has died down. So don't expect we've heard the end of little Mickey Sona quite yet. His is a zeal and willingness to "do what ever it takes to win" that have become a highly valued commodity in the Reform-a-Con party.<br />
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<br /></div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-85932676719635326882011-10-01T01:30:00.006-04:002012-08-19T18:00:51.729-04:00The Conservative's Sick Relationship With Big Oil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's pretty much a given that our current federal Government fellatiates big business and the "1%" on a fairly regular basis. Hell, our majority Government are nothing more than "bitches in suits" to Alberta Oil and the Tar Sands. And our Conservative government are pretty arrogant about it, believing that servicing the syphilitic members of the affluent is not only an honour and a privilege, but also what's in the best interest of the country. They carry out their mission from the Godless with ruthless abandon, systematically severing the heads from all those who threaten their status with the corporate world. And they demand gilt embossed business cards in return for all the time they spend on their knees.<br />
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But let's say, for the sake of argument, that these Neo Cons truly believe in what they are doing, thinking that reshaping the country by burying our social values while giving free reign to the Corporatist minority is really good for the country. Let's just imagine for a moment that they really aren't reptilian aliens bent on world domination and enslaving the entire human population. It's a stretch I know, but bear with me here.<br />
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To say that these guys are capitalists with a capital "C" is pretty much a given. But I would go beyond that, calling them "Corporatists", meaning that they value the 1% over and above all other human beings, believing that these "movers and shakers" are superior beings, here to bestow their greatness upon all the land and that reducing the population to nothing more than indentured servitude is in everybody's best interest. They believe that their brand of economics, based on the Calgary School, the Chicago School and the Fraser Institute is vastly superior to anything that has come before it. Never mind that their philosophies are nothing more than rehashed Classical or Neo economic Liberalism. They believe that a robust and completely unfettered Corporate class will make everything right in our land. That their unbridled success will in someway benefit all of us as well as our country and our society in general. The theory behind this being that the "invisible hand" of Capitalism will make things even out, make sure that the wealth somehow trickles down to us lowly surfs and that the laws of supply and demand will regulate the market place.<br />
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The problem is, the "invisible hand" doesn't exist. It is nothing more than a mythical creature, about as credible as the existence of Unicorns, or perhaps more appropriately, Minotaurs. The proof of which is in the ever widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the reality that 1% of our population holds over 35% of all the wealth in the world and that our financial institutions are able to hold on to literally, trillions of dollars and are refusing to share it. <br />
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Where was the "invisible hand" when the housing bubble burst in the States? When large financial institutions got fat off of peddling false hopes to the population? Was there any omnipotent self-regulating deity around to tell the banks that what they were doing was killing the economy and bankrupting millions of poor working schmucks like you and I? Nope! They had an angle and they worked it to the max, at the expense of you and I, then received trillions of dollars in bail-out money from the American Government just so they could keep their doors open... and give bonuses to their execs, and to subsequently hoard it. They behaved like gluttonous spoiled kids in a candy store with no parent about to moderate their sugar intake. Nope, no self-regulating Capitalist Gods were present then. <br />
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The heart and soul of Capitalism is Consumerism. In order for Capitalism to work, there needs to be a healthy population with money in their pockets who are able to "consume". The advent of the labour movement and the subsequent rise of the middle class made for a very healthy Capitalist society in the mid 20th century. People had rights and freedoms as well as a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage. Our way of life seemed vastly superior to the more oppressive communist regimes of the time and it ultimately buried communism on the world stage. In the end, the Berlin Wall fell and all seemed right with the world.<br />
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The most industrious of all industrialists, Henry Ford had a lot to do with that. Love him or hate him, Ford realized that if anyone was going to buy the millions of cars he was mass producing, he was going to have to pay his workers better. So he did. They in effect, became the consumers of what Ford was producing. And this arrangement seemed to work for everyone. And that model was replicated over and over again to the benefit of the workers and the industrialists alike.<br />
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But now, the Corporatists seem hell bent on exterminating the Labour movement and driving down wages because these wages are supposedly undercutting their profit margins. Like it's our fault that these guys can't be as rich as they want to be. I wonder what Ford would have to say about an industrialist who blames the market place for their inability to succeed. But then, he once said that:<i>"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business".</i> Looking at our financial institutions today, very prophetic words I would say. <br />
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Like it or not, we the consumers, are the cattle that feed the Corporate giants. They are supposed to keep us fat and healthy so that they, in turn, can become fatter and healthier. It's supposed to be a symbiotic relationship. Except the Corporatists, the ones who produce nothing, are behaving more like cancerous organisms and are looking at killing off their entire heard of consumers in their gluttony. In so doing, they are dooming their own fate, not to mention that of our country and the entire world. <br />
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And while we're on the subject of cancerous organisms, lets take a look at our Corporatist loving Conservative Government's slavish love affair with the Tar Sands. Our heads of state have told us repeatedly that they want Canada to be an energy super-power. And that of course, means scouring every last drop of oil from the Tar Sands, regardless of the impact on the environment. This crazed consumption of a natural resource that neglects the impact on the surrounding environment is much like how a cancerous organism reacts with it's host. <br />
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But besides the environmental catastrophe unfolding before our very eyes on a daily basis, lets look at the economic logistics of this. The Conservative's idea of becoming an energy super-power amounts to putting all of our eggs into a very leaky, oily basket. The entire world knows that fossil fuels are killing the environment and we need to find alternative energy resources. And the entire world is beginning to mobilize to that end. Hence, other countries who are investing for the future, are becoming world leaders in alternative sources of energy. But besides that, fossil fuels are non renewable. That means that we can and <i>will </i>, run out some day. Many scientists already claim we are much closer to that day than we think, hence the panicked rush to look for oil in the arctic, despite the environmental impact and the titanic logistical undertaking involved.<br />
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But even before the last drop of crude is sucked from the soil, there will come a tipping point at which the demand will exceed the supply. We may already be there. Why else would we all be so willing to pay such outlandish prices for a tank of gas. It has been determined that a global oil shortage will occur long before the mass implementation of new sources of energy to power our cars and heat our homes. Hence, economic melt-down because of the myopic vision of our world leaders and their love-fetish with oil.<br />
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So building a strong Canada for the future, based on Oil, is like investing heavily in building a buggy whip factory next to one of Henry Ford's factories. It is remarkably short sighted not to mention stupid from an economic stand point. And this from a Prime Minister who claims to be an economist. He should be asking for his money back from the University of Calgary.<br />
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Looking then at the Federal Government's sick relationship with the cancerous Corporatists and their destructive, shortsighted investment in the Tar Sands, they must either be high-priced concubines, or at best, simply have rocks in their heads.<br />
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RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-72713894563133060282011-08-09T04:46:00.000-04:002011-08-09T04:46:45.402-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM68LLqI94G1PJpCB4KcXsiTrtHAud0O16EgCmtbVCylrY31sCTqjzxO8UAsriBw4lbAKJC1C_AzXuk1FOgEXwQxFo0IPelJ1bkTM75XF5N3Lw8TleHsyTybY03AdcZwHHU5v6cHgMNRGD/s1600/fighting_terrorism_since_1492.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM68LLqI94G1PJpCB4KcXsiTrtHAud0O16EgCmtbVCylrY31sCTqjzxO8UAsriBw4lbAKJC1C_AzXuk1FOgEXwQxFo0IPelJ1bkTM75XF5N3Lw8TleHsyTybY03AdcZwHHU5v6cHgMNRGD/s400/fighting_terrorism_since_1492.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
</div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-77185575802858305482011-08-03T03:50:00.003-04:002012-08-05T18:41:26.749-04:00A Background Into Harpernomics.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was quite shocked to learn that Milton Freidman, noted Free-Market-Free-Booter and God-Father of the "Chicago School" of Economics considered himself a "Liberal". <br />
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Friedman of course, was Augusto Pinochet's go-to guy in the 70s when the American backed dictator was brutally recreating Chilean society.<br />
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Friedman believed that the only purpose for Government was in the protection of the people. Literally meaning, the provision of a military and police force. And as we know all too well, Pinochet made good use of his. The Government, according to Friedman, has no business regulating business which should be free of any and all constraints to operate in any manner that maximizes profits. All for the greater good of course. In addition, education and healthcare are essentially business opportunities best left to the private sector. Any Government involvement in these areas should be cursory if at all, as with charter schools in the U.S.<br />
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So when Friedman referred to himself as a "Liberal", he did not mean in the same sense as a 21st century social Liberal might. He was talking about being an "economic Liberal", meaning it should be open season everywhere in the world for business to do as it pleases. <br />
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Now I've always thought of Liberalism as being of the "Social" variety. Meaning it's adherents can range anywhere from the centre of the political spectrum to approaching the far left. To my 21st century understanding, Liberalism is progressive, democratic, big on equal rights and recognizes to varying degrees, the state's responsibility not just to protect it's citizens , but to look after the poor, elderly and marginalized as well. In addition, in the name of equality, every and all citizens have a right to appropriate health care and equal education.<br />
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Conversely, I understood "Conservatism" to mean that there is more of a commitment to capitalism and free-markets and a belief that a healthy environment for business meant a healthy economy, happy citizens and a healthy country. In addition, Conservatism recognizes religion, particularly Christianity in the formation of our social values and that "family" in the biblical sense, is the cornerstone of a strong society.<br />
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Then, there are areas in the middle of the "Political Centre" where the modern concepts of Liberalism and Conservatism overlap. This is where you get "Red Tories" and "Blue Liberals" or more accurately, Liberal Conservatives and Conservative Liberals.<br />
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On closer examination it appears that the philosophy behind Liberalism, has been around since the 19th century. This earliest form however, is referred to as "Classical-Liberalism" and was the antithesis of Socialism. According to Wikipedia, the core beliefs of Classical-Liberalism are:<br />
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<i>"... classical liberals made four assumptions about human nature: People were "egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic". Being egoistic, people were motivated solely by pain and pleasure. Being calculating, they made decisions intended to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. If there were no opportunity to increase pleasure or reduce pain, they would become inert. Therefore, the only motivation for labor was either the possibility of great reward or fear of hunger. This belief led classical liberal politicians to pass the <u>Poor Law Amendment Act 1834</u>, which limited the provision of social assistance. On the other hand, classical liberals believed that men of higher rank were motivated by ambition. Seeing society as atomistic, they believed that society was no more than the sum of its individual members. These views departed from earlier views of society as a family and, therefore, greater than the sum of its members". </i><br />
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In addition, our friends at "<i>The Wiki</i>" add this rather chilling observation about Classical-Liberalism:<br />
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<i>"Adopting Thomas Malthus's population theory, they saw poor urban conditions as inevitable, as they believed population growth would outstrip food production;<b> and they considered that to be desirable, as starvation would help limit population growth.</b> They opposed any income or wealth redistribution, which they believed would be dissipated by the lowest orders"</i>.<br />
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It's no small wonder given the above description that both Milton Friedman and his mentor, Friedrich Hayek are both listed as Classical-Liberals. Though if I hadn't known better, I would have thought that the above description from <i>Wikipedia</i> more accurately described today's more radical right-wing Conservatives. Case in point, I would have assumed the doctrine of Classical-Liberalism sounds more like that of Stephen Harper and his Merry band of Neo-Cons.<br />
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It's interesting to note that <b>Tom Flanagan,</b> A senior member of the "Calgary School" of Economics (a parallel of the Chicago School) is a Conservative, a Senior Fellow at the Conservative leaning <b>Fraser Institute</b> (That's right, the same Fraser institute that has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from the American Free-Booting, tea-sipping Koch brothers) and was a <b>top adviser to our Conservative Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.</b> Yet Flanagan claims to be an adherent of the <br />
Friedrich Hayek school of economic and political thought. Hayek of course, being a Classical-Liberal.<br />
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Today's Classical-Liberals are more accurately referred to as <i>Libertarians</i>. There are varying degrees of Libertarians, all of whom advocate for limited Government, the most extreme of whom, would be anarchists who believe there should be no government what-so-ever.<br />
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So, what does all this blather actually mean? Well it means that people like Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Tom Flanagan and Stephen Harper, just to name a few, can accurately label themselves as not just Conservatives, or Neo-Conservatives or Ultra Right-Wing Conservatives, they can also lay claim to the monikers of Liberals, Classical-Liberals or Libertarians. All of which leaves me very, very confused.<br />
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So I think that the terms "Conservative" and "Liberal" are now entirely out-dated and inaccurate. Even the term "Capitalist" is inaccurate as Capitalism can be embraced by either modern social-Liberals OR Progressive Conservatives. But I think there are two phrases that more accurately sum up the two schools of thought that currently find themselves at war with each other. One is: "<i><b>Corporatism</b></i>" which embraces all those notions of Free-Markets and no government, the rich get richer while the poor become cattle for the industrial elite.<br />
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The other phrase is a very old one. It's been demonized over the years, starting with the "Red Scare" of the late 40s. It's been drilled into our heads as being a description of evil itself. But today, this label is the antithesis of <i>Corporatism</i>. It is the only one that speaks to a social conscience. It is the only one that embraces equality, progressiveness, all-inclusiveness. It speaks to the rights and freedoms of every citizen in our country. That phrase is <b>"<i>Socialism</i>".</b><br />
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It's time that label was seen in a new light. That it be stripped of the demonic aura that was cast upon it by the <i>Corporatists </i>of Post War America.<i> Socialism</i> is the only label and school of thought that now accurately expresses and encompasses the needs and rights of the average citizen.<br />
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We are trapped in a culture war ladies and gentlemen. Harper, Flanagan Friedman and the <i>Corporatists </i>have drawn up the battle lines and you and I are most definitely not on their side. The only way to fight for our rights, to fight for our freedom, to fight the <i>Corporatists</i>, is with <i>Socialism. </i>And yet the one political party in our country who can claim to have a social-democratic conscience, is looking at removing the word "<i>Socialist</i>" from it's mission statement. <br />
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So we have to either learn to embrace the concept of <i>Socialism</i>, to stop viewing it as the "Great Red Evil" or learn to embrace the <i>Corporatist</i> role for 99% of all citizens, you and I that is, as mindless cattle or slave labor for the uber-rich elite.<br />
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</div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-11744153808296462011-07-18T10:39:00.000-04:002014-08-11T17:58:05.148-04:00Let's Never Forget Who Stephen Harper Is<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Let us never forget fellow Canadians, that "Little Stevie Harper" (pictured above) was a powerful influence upon the radical, western-centric, ideological lobby-group-come-political party along with the hyper-evangelical, free-market, anti government flake, Preston Manning. It was little Stevie "The Wonder-kin" Harper who coined the rather catchy 1988 Reform Campaign Slogan of: "The West Want's In". Into what was never adequately explained, but now it appears that "The West "Owns It".<br />
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Harper left the Reform Party in 1992 due to a disagreement with Manning, who was not radical enough for Harper's liking. So Stevie became head of the National Citizens Coalition, a Corporate Canada Lobby group <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a7b2c1ec-f98f-4624-b3a5-1bb690e70c41" id="18d7f570-c4e4-4d95-88c6-795cafdccd1f">who's</span> name is misleading to say the least, and used their $50,000 in third-party print and media advertisement to <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="a7b2c1ec-f98f-4624-b3a5-1bb690e70c41" id="ad4f60b1-ab9b-4364-b5a9-7981c9aa052b">spring-board</span> him<i> back</i> into the Reform Party and into Parliament. <br />
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Harper left Parliament in 1997 and in that year, made a speech to the Uber-conservative American Think-tank "Council For National Policy" in which he made the following statements:<br />
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-"Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it"<br />
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-"<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="21ddb903-1549-454a-a94f-93ec7986a6d7" id="cd5d9d67-5ce2-426b-b67d-e3260898347c">if</span> you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians", and<br />
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-"<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="366f4b30-dc34-4e1e-b9bb-31cb4c9a26a2" id="693ed6db-6770-45c0-9458-e7be994b4b8b">the</span> NDP [New Democratic Party] is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men."<br />
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Gee! Sounds like Harper has a <b><i>distinct lack of respect for Canadians and those principles and values that Canadians have come to embrace as defining our unique culture. </i></b><br />
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In 2000, Stevie Harper encouraged Alberta to build a "firewall" around <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4acf03d7-968b-4aac-9d51-e7f6f07111cc" id="cd9c15e8-3cbc-45fd-9588-267aa735d15f">itself</span> to protect it from a Canadian Government which he claimed<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4acf03d7-968b-4aac-9d51-e7f6f07111cc" id="e57d45a4-77fe-4231-9e9c-f1a0033f23d8"> :</span><br />
<i>"<span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d50f36bb-cd45-423f-ba65-f21cb79f0819" id="e74ceb38-ebc4-4f5d-b074-5f07fcc743dc">appears</span> content to become a second-tier socialistic country"</i>. In 2002, Harper became the leader of the re-branded Reform Party who now referred to <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="efa93d14-51ac-4ec5-9f56-25533f9804f2" id="fc4f8d98-579f-48a1-ba6a-897023a2b7d6">them selves</span> as the "Canadian Alliance". They hoped the new euphemistic name would gather more <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1c181cb0-611d-4e87-8934-72c8cac1005d" id="52cb9597-81b6-4bc0-8005-766c27898dd0">centre</span>-right votes and credibility east of Alberta. They were wrong.<br />
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In 2003, Peter MacKay was elected the last leader of the floundering Progressive Conservative Party. He won <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="42ef8035-2b3e-4a72-823e-229497250ca9" id="ffc133e0-efa2-4f82-b4cd-09ca91a9bc2e">leadership</span> on the condition that he <i>not</i> negotiate an amalgamation with the Harper Reform/Alliance party. MacKay made this <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="4ff93dd2-e7d8-4e32-a52a-91111c9784de" id="73cf7b61-bf3f-4102-90a7-6af385180227">promise then</span> promptly broke it after assuming the P.C. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b3951636-200d-4ed2-86a6-d1c754f715e1" id="fc307b49-79d2-4a47-a77a-35cd8c3960e8">leadership</span>. This Enabled Steve the Reformist to take control Of the Progressive Conservatives. He promptly dropped the "Progressive" moniker and by usurping the Conservative name, The Reform Party was finally able to gain the attention of voters outside of Alberta, not realizing that Harper was a Reformist in Conservative clothing. <br />
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So never EVER forget fellow Canadians, <b>Stevie Harper was, is and will always be a Reform Partyist. <u>The Conservative Party of today, is simply the old Reform Party</u>, re-branded once again. </b><br />
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And in case you've forgotten, Stephen The Reformist Harper believes in:<br />
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-<u>Privatizing our <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8bec956c-82f6-4039-ad5d-6c0b8d54d0c7" id="24ffd61f-41d7-495d-853b-948874a4f5c1">health-care</span> system </u>which would result in a multi-tiered <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="8bec956c-82f6-4039-ad5d-6c0b8d54d0c7" id="4e8fb9c9-ac25-49b6-8f88-89a637350f7b">health-care</span> system that would see those with the most money able to buy their way to the front of the line of the best health services while the rest of us would have to make do with understaffed, underfunded, feces infested health clinics.<br />
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-<u>Privatizing our education system</u> which, like the health system, would create a multi-tiered system with the rich able to purchase the best education and the rest of us making do with substandard <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0302556f-e244-4a42-8da1-7a1e1c72f44d" id="92d3db8a-388e-4f3c-bcb9-d69433eed074">materiel</span> and curriculum. We would all be "just" educated enough to run the machines for Corporate Canada. Consider just how<br />
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- <u>Union Busting</u> Meaning that all the services listed above would be non unionized with no protection for employees or clients working for substandard wages while delivering the maximum profits to the private companies running them. This would be the same throughout <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="64636095-a3d3-4ac9-a770-19db5f4fdc85" id="9bde27e9-0a4d-471d-b4ab-6188df42aa50">industry</span>. No unions <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2af9de5a-952a-43b4-89a8-57ae56a256df" id="b3d959dd-f389-477f-b526-2771479aa40a">means</span> no employee protection, no minimum wages and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="2af9de5a-952a-43b4-89a8-57ae56a256df" id="d4531a48-1c95-4697-8724-cc932d870b76">few if</span> any employee rights. <br />
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- <u>Removal of all government regulations pertaining to Big Banks and Big Business</u> Again, this would give Corporate Canada carte-blanch to do business as it sees fit at the expense of <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="650b21a4-57ae-49a7-b9fa-5484bc2ec220" id="9ede7266-fd70-43fd-a257-d738ddf2c52b">it's</span> employees and each and every natural resource and asset Canada currently protects.<br />
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<u>- Removal of all trade barriers </u>which would give huge multi-national corporations free access to all of our assets and resources. It would be an open invitation to big business to come and <b>rape our country and exploit our children. </b><br />
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<u>- Harper Condemned our lack of support for the invasion of </u><u>Iraq</u><span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ac61c95b-10fc-4873-8b76-3bf6ecfbb33a" id="bf9b13da-7812-4a8f-b165-eb6997e480cc"> which</span> in his mind, meant that Canada missed out in the wild and wooly privatization of Iraq, <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ac61c95b-10fc-4873-8b76-3bf6ecfbb33a" id="db1bbf6f-ecec-4760-b38c-79b7c7f6547b">it's</span> oil fields, it's education, it's health care and <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="ac61c95b-10fc-4873-8b76-3bf6ecfbb33a" id="ba0e3ce5-6786-4926-9ea7-161e1c2b93d8">it's</span> security. So Stevie would have us perpetually at war. We are leaving Afghanistan in time for Libya. This allows Steve to drape himself in the Flag of Canadian Nationalism while being in on the ground floor of the <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0fa19e61-2356-43f5-b8dc-df8213c62a50" id="4d678822-21d3-4706-8c5d-f1f6d3eb3a5b">whole-sale</span> privatization of war ravaged countries. <b>THIS is why Harper wants to buy F-35 jets and increase spending on the military: Not for the defense of the arctic but for U.S./NATO led war profiteering. </b><br />
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I don't believe that either of these Canadian Prime Ministers considered them selves to be the enemy of South Africa. Probably far from it. Both Canada and South Africa share a democratic and legal tradition that stems from our former mother country of England. We are basically, siblings in the global community. Our societies may be quite distinct, but our values remain very similar. But this didn't stop either Mr. Diefenbaker or Mr. Mulroney, both of whom wore the Progressive label with pride, from doing what they thought was the right thing. <br />
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This is not a state of affairs that anyone deliberately set out to accomplish. This is a region that has a history of hostility dating back thousands of years. In modern times, the Israeli's- our friends and allies- have fought war after war in an effort to maintain their nation status. As a result, fear, paranoia and hatred have become realities of Israeli existence and it has eventually lead to the current situation with respect to the Palestinians. <br />
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Yes, Israel since it's inception, has been considered a friend and an ally. We here in North America remain strongly connected to the "Holy Land" because of our religious traditions. That and the fact that Israel is a fellow democratic nation that has drawn it's citizenry from all over the world, including Canada. But our friends have crossed a line and have taken the notion of their right to exist to such an extreme as to have inflicted this horrible apartheid on their Palestinian citizens. Yet instead of chastising our friend and Global neighbor for their current state of affairs, our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, who in reality exists too far out into right field as to be considered a Conservative, has taken the stance that the State of Israel can do no wrong. His attitude seeming to be that: "you stick by your friends no matter what" - and more disturbingly,he has conveyed the message that anyone who criticizes Israel is probably Anti-Semitic. <br />
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This seems to be an "all-or-nothing" kind of behaviour from our Prime Minister. When it first came to light that Afghan detainees handed over to the local authorities by Canadian troops were being tortured, Mr. Harper blustered on in Parliament that any member of the opposition or the press who was concerned about this issue was more concerned about the well being of the enemy then of our men and women in uniform. These critics most certainly, were absolutely un-Canadian! All or nothing with Mr. Harper. Blind, unconditional support, no matter the cost.<br />
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What ever the cause of Mr. Harper's "all-or-nothing" world view, it has led to such heinous situations as our government blocking Asbestos from being listed as a hazardous substance by the U.N. (there's that U.N. connection again) because we make boat-loads of cash from shipping it to developing nations. And it has earned Canada the label of "Rogue Nation" by the E.U. So I guess it makes sense then that our Rogue Government would unconditionally support another Rogue Government, Israel. </div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-23830153591016141502011-07-01T18:58:00.000-04:002011-07-01T18:58:44.860-04:00Oh What a Canada Day!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;">An Iconic Canadian song from some good ol Boys from my Home town of Hamilton Ontario. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">That some one with such a prestigious job as Parliamentary Page would throw their position away for the sake of their beliefs is indeed inspiring. Mind you, she only had two months left on her contract. I wonder how she would explain this on a resume? "Left position because of philosophical differences with employer"?</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But what a well timed metaphorical "slap in the face" for dear old Mr. Harper, to have such a noteworthy protest right in the middle of the Governor General reading the throne speech and right under his nose, just meters from where he was seated. I wonder how many chairs paid the price for this bit of chicanery? (Harper, as has been discovered, is prone to childish outbursts of anger that includes the kicking of chairs)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But leave us hope that this single act of bravery will lead to a ground swelling of public protest and civil disobedience that will not abate until October 19th, 2015. So take note all ye students and Canadians of good conscience: Public assembly is a right. Public protest is a right. But Civil disobedience is now a matter of necessity.</div></div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-20105341109675811062011-05-09T20:28:00.000-04:002011-05-09T20:28:34.027-04:00We Have to Stop Looking for Excuses and Start Looking for Reasons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div>Other counties have their natural disasters, hurricanes, earth quakes, volcanoes... We call ours federal elections. It's been a week since our man made natural disaster occurred. As of yet, things have not turned entirely into shit. But four years is a long time to mess with a countries internal organs and I have little faith in the surgeon.<br />
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Be that as it may. The Government of Harper won fair and square. To say that the outcome is illegitimate is, at the very least, an expression of sour grapes. Our "first past the post" method of electing our Members of Parliament (remember, we elect MPs, not PMs) has been in existence since day one (if you start counting time at 1867 that is) and has benefited parties on both the right and the left.<br />
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As popular as he was and with the majority governments he had, Pierre Trudeau never had more than 45% of the popular vote. But no one (well not many anyway) called his governments "illegitimate". So blaming the Con victory on a flawed process is...well...flawed. As well, claiming that the Cons won because of vote splitting on the left is also in error. Remember, all the other parties combined won fewer seats then the Cons, so it doesn't matter HOW people on the left voted, they just shuffled votes and seats among themselves.<br />
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Simply put, The Cons were just more able to elect more MPS than anyone else. Why? I'm still coming to grips with this, but the Cons were able to persuade more voters that they were the better party to lead them as we recover from the global recession. Meaning on a day to day, community by community basis, The Cons appealed to more voters as the ones to best look after their interests.<br />
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So was this then an indictment on all the other parties, including the notion of a coalition government? or is this simply a matter of the Cons being able to do a better job of marketing? They knew their base, they knew the audience they needed to capture and went after them full bore. Which ever way it is, it's up for the other parties to decide and to act accordingly.<br />
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But until that happens, we are stuck with an ultra right wing theocracy of a government because the majority of their MPs won their respective elections fair and square. Ok, maybe not so fair or not so square, but they won them anyway. So we need to stop looking at flawed systems and vote splitting and concentrating on what it was that made the Cons appealing to so many Canadians. Again, still coming to grips with this one. But until this can be identified, we will be doomed to perpetual Right wing dogma.</div></div></div>RKDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316392686921332837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1872562962408261583.post-21480274858935930212011-05-01T20:06:00.000-04:002011-05-01T20:06:37.533-04:00Canadians Should be Proud of Themselves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ok Canada, now is our chance. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In countries of the near and far east, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Iran, Yemen, Syria etc. </span>Citizens have been protesting, fighting and dying for the right to have free and democratic elections, for the right of every citizen to have a say in the running of their country. Just like Canadians have a say.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At the beginning of this election, I heard all the rhetoric, that this is an "unnecessary election", that Canadians "don't want an election right now". Well guess what boys and squirrels, that was all a myth.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If that were the case, the NDP would not be virtually neck and neck with the Cons on the eve of the election, something NO ONE with the possible exception of Jack Layton saw coming. And no one saw the possible demise of the Bloc Quebecois who on this last day of the campaign, have the commitment of about 3% of voters in Quebec. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If this election were unnecessary or unwanted, there would not have been such a huge surge in the Youth vote. Advanced polls would not have seen a 37% increase in voter turn out over 2008. And women would not have to be fighting a fierce battle for their health and reproductive rights. Not to mention the rights and protection of their children. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So Canadians for one reason or another, are taking this election VERY seriously. Including the right-wing extremest who are stooping to never before seen acts of intimidation and violence in order to silence any and all dissenting voices... including the media. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is, in fact, a high level of engagement with the citizenry for this election. So anyone, (including myself in earlier posts) who use the example of events in the east as a method of shaming the Canadian electorate, are in serious error. Canadians do care about their country, and they care passionately. Canadians are engaged, and they do want to make a change for the betterment of their country, whatever that change may look like. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And for better or worse, once the dust settles on May 3rd, the direction our country will be going in will have been revealed. Probably not definitively, but the sign posts will have been clearly planted and the battle for our social conscience will have begun in earnest. And this will be a result/reflection of the level of engagement of Canadian citizens. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So we should all be proud fellow Canadians. Our voices are being heard and our votes will determine our fate. We might not all be happy with the result. But we have dis-proven the myth once and for all that this is an unnecessary or unwanted election or that Canadians are apathetic. We are far from it. We are as informed or as involved as any county can be in the western world. We are approaching this election as though Canada were playing a gold medal hockey game. Enough said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So you've tried to intimidate school girls to stop them from voting sona, I'd call you "mister" but the title requires you own a set of testicles, which you clearly, do not. </span>You attempted to steal a legal Elections Canada ballot box , a crime which should have automatically resulted in your being sentenced to be somebody's bitch in Milhaven for a number of years.<br />
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Oh, and apparently, you like to play with guns. Probably to make up for your own lack of reproductive equipment. But alas, I digress.<br />
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You're acts of attempted suppression and I dare say, sedition, are a personal affront to all freedom loving citizens of this country. Why citizens of Canada have not taken you to task for your criminal acts by now is beyond me. Probably, because they feel you are a waste of their time. You are a very little man with some very little ideas.<br />
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But I'd like to see sona, just how active you intend to be on the day of the big show, election day. Id love to see you try your petty antics on that day. I'd love sona, to see you try to snatch the ballot out of a freedom loving citizen's hands that day. I'd love if you tried to snatch the ballot out of MY hands sona. In fact you lily-livered limp-wristed sociopath, I DARE you to try to stop me from voting. I DARE you to try to steal the ballot box at my polling station. I DARE you to show up with your Con propaganda vans. Let's see you try to stop democracy in action come May 2nd. I'll be waiting.<br />
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Doing the rough math, that represents about 12,000,000 Canukleheads. But of course, not all citizens are eligible voters as yet. So if roughly 50% of us eligible voters actually turn out to vote, that's between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 Con supporters (rough estimate of course). Can there really be so many misinformed and/or misguided Canadians?<br />
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How can this many citizens of one the most open and free societies in the world be so ok with a regime that lies and misleads the electorate as a matter of standard operating procedure? Can so many good Canadians really accept that a leader and his party cheats, steals, misrepresents, cares nothing for the rights of ALL our citizenry and deems women as a visible minority to be controlled?<br />
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In the Canada that I know and love, ALL people have the same rights and are to be treated equally. Immigrants and their families are welcomed with open arms to join our society, to work for a better life and to contribute to our wonderful national tapestry. Families, their health and their daily struggles mean more than large corporations or the backward, exclusive dogma of some antiquated quasi-religion. <br />
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In the Canada most of us have come to embrace, ALL religions are acceptable so long as they inflict no harm nor hate. Everyone has a rightful place and women are full partners in the maintenance of our great society. And they have the right to say what happens to their bodies and to advocate for themselves and the well being of their children.<br />
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NONE of those things are on the Harper agenda. Maintaining power at any and all cost and reshaping Canada into some vile, loathsome, blighted farce are the only things that are. In fact, the only promise Harper intends to keep is the one where he said that we won't recognize Canada by the time he's done changing it. If that doesn't send shivers down our collective national spines, I don't know what would.<br />
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Some say the reason so may Canuckleheads would vote conservative is because they want "certainty" or some semblance of "security" in their daily lives. Does a man who employs felons, fraudsters, thieves and sociopaths and regularly excuses their many and varied indiscretions inspire much in the way of "certainty" or "security"?<br />
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Does a party that bullies and stoops to any sort of dirty trick, no matter how low or sordid then systematically sets out to destroy anyone who would dare blow the whistle on them inspire confidence as the party that represents the best interests of the country or it's citizens?<br />
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And let us not forget good citizens, this so called "Conservative" party, is Conservative in name only. They usurped the name with the help of the traitor Peter McKay. This group is really the westerncentric oil-patch lovin rednecks from Alberta that used to call themselves the Reform Party. The same one Harper was a co-founder of along with Preston Manning. The Same Reform Party that changed their name to the Alliance Party and was led by the that guy who believes the world is 6,000 years old and that men walked with dinosaurs. You know the guy, the President of the Treasury Board, Stockwell Day? <br />
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I suppose that it doesn't help to inspire confidence in the "Coalition Alternative", as trustworthy and in keeping with Canadian values as it would be when they are squabbling amongst themselves. But a truly democratic alternative that works in concert to retain and maintain our social safety net and to safeguard our charter rights still has to be the best and only choice for those of us who truly love our great country.<br />
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Remember fellow Canadians, what happened to the true Conservative party at the end of the Mulroney era? They were practically voted out of existence by a disenchanted electorate. And that government was absolutely immaculate compared to the collection of thugs and ideologues that currently carry the conservative name. So wake up and smell the coffee Canada, It's time these pretenders suffered the same fate. <br />
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So here you go folks, photographic evidence that the Fascist Michael Sona was in fact, in attendance at the U of G Special poll on April 13th. As yet, no pictures have come to light that show Sona actually trying to grab the ballot box, but there remains plenty of eye witnesses to his attempted crime.<br />
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Fortunately, the 700 Guelph votes still stand. But because of the actions of this petty Fascist henchman, special polls are now banned from the other Universities across the country that had vote mobs planned in order to facilitate student voting. <br />
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So my question remains, why is this man not in police custody as yet. Why has he not been arrested either by the authorities or by citizen's arrest for the federal crimes of attempting to steal a legitimate Elections Canada Ballot box and attempting to obstruct a perfectly legal vote from occurring. This blackguard has committed crimes not only against the students of Canada, but against all Canadian citizens by attempting to stifle the democratic rights of the U of G students to vote. <br />
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Sona is a reflection of the Party that employs him. Notice how the Harper-Cons have not only NOT fired this raging-bully, they have protected him. Why? Because Stephen Harper cares even less about democracy and the student vote than Sona does.<br />
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So get out there and vote any way students, even if you can't do so on campus. Remember the party and the man who tried to stop you from exercising your democratic rights. Vote the Government of Harper out of office and see that the Fascist Sona goes to jail for his attempts to stifle democracy and keep you from voting. <br />
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Word from the Cons is that "no member" of the party actually laid hands on the box. This is of course, a matter of semantics. The attempt was made and had an Elections Canada official not intervened, Sona would have been successful in absconding with a legitimate and legal ballot box, property of the crown, a federal offense. <br />
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In essence, Sona and his over-lords are fearful of the student vote and attempted to stop the U of G students from exercising their democratic right and rendering the votes already cast as null and void. Had Sona been successful in stealing the box, you can bet it would have miraculously "disappeared" once it was determined the vote was legal.<br />
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And now it is alleged that either Sona or his over-lord were seen filming U of G students in line waiting to vote, yet another federal offense. <br />
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So good citizens of Guelph, seeing as the Harper Cons have made it easier for Canadians to make a citizens arrest, feel free to tackle, detain and hog-tie the fascist Michael Sona. His condition when turned over to police is entirely up to you. Let the Harper Cons know that Canadians will not stand for attempts at intimidation and suppression of their democratic right to vote. These are federal offenses, and it's time the Harper Cons started paying the price. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">According to my source, who just happens to be a "Tory Insider", it is a well know fact that all Harper-Con Cabinet Ministers carry black-jacks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As the story goes, bands of these thuggish Cabinet Ministers roam the streets of Ottawa late at night, hopped up on Coca-Cola and Aspirin. They look for poor unsuspecting immigrant types to rob and beat senseless. Usually, the targets are old ladies as they are easier to over come and their purses are easy to snatch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Curiously, when the stolen purses are recovered, no money is taken from them, just makeup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">One night however, a band of such rough and tough Cabinet Ministers came upon an elderly "Sikh" couple. The Neo-thugs swarmed the trembling couple, took out their black-jacks and began beating upon the helpless duo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apparently, in a desperate, last ditch attempt to save his loving wife of 50 years, the old man drew his dull ceremonial Kirpan and brandished it in his bloodied quivering hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apparently, several of the Cabinet Ministers spontaneously soiled themselves and the gang fled in all directions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The old man later revealed to police that: "the air was suddenly filled with the smell of <i>poop</i>". And as the motley crew disappeared into the shadows, a voice that sounded suspiciously like Steven Harper was heard screaming:" Damn you Guergis, this was your idea you bitch"!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It is unknown if the culprits were ever located as the subsequent police report has been heavily redacted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The Government of Harper fell because of it's absolute <b><i>Contempt</i> </b>for Parliament. They lied, misled and withheld vital information from Parliament and produced a 200 page manual on how to stone-wall an opposition led Parliamentary Committee. In essence, they said <b><i>"screw you" to Parliament,</i></b> the Democratic process and to you and I as citizens of this country who's voices can only be heard via our elected officials in Parliament.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is the first time in the 144 year history of our country that the Government has been found in <b><i>Contempt</i></b> of Parliament. In fact, it's the first time in the history of ANY Parliamentary Democracy ANYWHERE that a ruling Government has been found in <b><i>contempt</i></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So the complete and utter <i><b>contempt</b></i> with which the Government of Harper holds our Parliament and our country was a sustainable news story only as long as it took for this ham-handed, ideologically driven, undemocratic regime to finally be knocked off of it's pedestal. In this case, about two weeks. As soon as Harper was knocked off the top of the hill, other political topics became more newsworthy than the <i><b>contempt</b></i> issue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And to make matters worse, the <i><b>contemptible </b></i>Harper-Cons continue to dictate the the narrative in this election. First it was coalitions, then the economy, then it was a 1:1 debate that Stephen Harper first Challenged Michael Ignatieff to, then backed out of. And now the primary issue is why the campaigning Tories will only allow 5 questions per campaign stop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And all the while the <i><b>contempt</b></i> issue becomes more and more of a waning memory, thanks to the Conservatives controlling the media, though admittedly, as unwitting dupes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Never before has there been such an unethical, cheating, lying, undemocratic Government in our fair Domain. Some may point to the Sponsorship Scandal of the Chretien Liberals, as the Tories are prone to do. The Tories deflect at all costs. Admit to nothing, accept responsibility for nothing, account for nothing. But the Government of Harper on an ongoing basis makes the Sponsorship affair look like a couple of minor league, rogue Liberal Insiders who got their fingers caught in the cookie jar.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At one point, in the early days of this election, there was some question as to the legality of Stephen Harper being allowed to run for reelection due to his party being found in <i><b>contempt. </b></i>The logic here being that <i><b>contempt </b></i>of Parliament is a federal offense and as such, being accused of a Federal offense excludes Harper's eligibility for reelection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This question was never sufficiently answered. None of the other parties went near the topic and now it has become a non-issue, as the <i><b>contempt</b></i> issue has become due to the space of time that has elapsed between the fall of the Harper Regime and the last time it was to the forefront in the media. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There is every reason to believe that one day, Harper may be considered to have been a criminal, if not for the Federal Offense of being in <i><b>contempt</b></i> of Parliament, then for the Federal Offense of withholding or breaching the Charter Rights of Canadian Citizens such as in the Omar Khadr affair, or perhaps the breaching of international law as in the matter of Afghan Detainees. Yet there is every reason to believe that he will form the next Government. Simply because he has succeeded in skillfully manipulating the media away from his own legal wranglings and on to other red-herring issues such as the TV debate. And the electorate, with it's minuscule attention span, will forget all about the issue of <i><b>contempt</b></i> come election day.And the criminal Harper will get off scott free once again. </span><br />
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