Meeting Tonight To Create A New Progressive Federal Political Party

Posted on Monday, March 15 at 10:34 by KevinGagnon

There are many millions of Canadians who support peace, international law, environmental protection, rational economic policies that promote more safe and satisfying jobs, economic justice, government funded social services including education, health care, and legal aid, well administered public utilities, national independence, etc.

The Green Party, CAP, the new Progressive Canadian Party and NDP are currently the only parties that such progressive Canadians can support, yet none of these parties currently stands a chance of beating the two neoconservative parties. A new federal mainstream Progressive Party could help to break the grip of neoconservative politics in Canada and usher in a new era of real and meaningful progress for Canada.

Join us tonight to find out about the current overall landscape of Canadian progressive politics, the new election and party finance legislation that will bring significant new opportunities for grassroots populist political initiatives, the dire crisis and huge opportunity that Canadians now face, and to explore various electoral strategies to attempt to prevent a deeper neoconservative take-over of Canadian politics, leading to further radical transformations of Canadian society, and a rapid integration of Canada into the US sphere of influence.

Mon March 15th, 2004
The Britannia Learning Resource Center
1661 Napier St.

Next meeting: Thu March 25th, 2004
Location tba

More Info at: www.progressiveparty.ca

-- " The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. "

Noam Chomsky

Note: www.progressiveparty.ca

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  1. Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:19 pm
    Kevin, the URL (http://www.progressiveparty.ca) isn't working (DNS error). Is that right? <P> Also, I want to say that forming a new party at this late date (so close to the election) seems fairly futile to me. Any new party will struggle with issues of legitimacy and name recognition that established parties will not have. It will also split support. I prefer to get the NDP as much support as possible so they can ideally get proportional representation into the government (the condition for supporting Paul Martin in a minority government situation) and then we can found new parties and they'll be able to get more support in the future.

  2. Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:05 pm
    I agree, we have so many splinter parties that are not cohesive, and the time is too short to start a new party and expect to gain the support we need.

    BTW, I heard the Bloc has offered to support a minority government, and I also heard that the Conservatives and the Bloc are talking about joining forces for the next election.

    Martin has blown his strength in Quebec, so I see a huge problem on the horizon.

    Anyone else heard about this ?



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    "Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
    Jim Callaghan
    Minden, Ontario
    705-286-1860
    www.misterc.ca

  3. Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:41 pm
    Jim,

    I agree. I only posted that for comments. It was posted on a PCOptions forum.

    Kevin

  4. Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:03 am
    No I haven't heard about the Bloc joining up with Cons. That would be horrible! Their policies are so much closer to the NDP. What are they thinking?

  5. Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:08 am
    <p>Well Duceppe in a interview say's Bloc unlikely to join coalition. <p><a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1079288154879_3///?hub=Canada">Full Article:</a>

  6. Tue Mar 16, 2004 6:12 am
    Perhaps you didn't read the entire article.

    This is down the list a bit, but its there:


    Duceppe said there have been no preliminary talks with the Conservatives about the possibility of a coalition, but said there was shared ground between his party and the other opposition parties.

    "Obviously we do have different interests, but we have the same enemy and we can come to common goals," he said.



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    "Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
    Jim Callaghan
    Minden, Ontario
    705-286-1860
    www.misterc.ca

  7. Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:11 am
    Yes Jim I heard it too, on the news last night, and apparently it is well received by the conservative leader contenders; but as one former Bloc member now a Liberal stated, that would mean that the conservatives are supporting the break up of the country! Indeed, isn't that what has been going on since the Mulroney years, be it liberal or conservative, sell out, break up or take over...it all has the same end result, it's just the methodology that is different.

    I agree we have to support the ndp as strongly as possible and make sure that Layton knows why we are supporting them, big change, taking back our country, no Lockheed Martin census, no Nafta or other sick trade agreements, no U.S. integration etc!

  8. Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:18 pm
    Your right I didn't read the entire article. Sometimes I only read the first few paragraphs, which in most cases gives you an idea of where the author is going with the article. I guess in this case he changed direction later in the article.

    Oh well it would have still been a waste of time to read I guess ;-)

    Kevin



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