Liberals In Foreclosure
Posted on Sunday, April 30 at 12:04 by robertjb
Unfortunately for the Liberals their seditious retreat from governance has now left them irrelevant and in political foreclosure. The Harper conservatives are more than willing to sell out the country and turn it into Stephen’s sycophantic American Dream. Where the Liberal’s sell out the country by benign neglect; Harper’s conservatives are less shy and very proactive. Granted a majority government what remains of Canada’s sovereignty would be decimated in the wink of an eye.
Jean Chretien was the direct beneficiary of Brian Mulroney’s overly exuberant plan to deconstruct Canada. Mulroney succeeded in rewriting our economic constitution via the FTA, the subsequent NAFTA and now the looming NAFTA-Plus. Fortunately, he did not succeed in rewriting our political constitution in the form of the Meech Lake or Charlottetown Accords. Among his other dubious achievements was to destroy the Progressive Conservative Party, fracture the right, and allow Chretien a free ride.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. The menacing ultra-right is united under the leadership of Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party of Canada. Now the Liberals and NDP are vote splitting to the advantage of the conservative right.
Going back to the time of the leadership Ed Broadbent the NDP has suffered from serial-self-co-option. With the free trade debate it had a chance to elevate itself to a party of truly national stature, instead it suffered an expedient indifference. Ed Broadbent was so sagacious as to endorse the Meech Lake Accord when it undercut the very principles the NDP supposedly stood for.
Similarly, in this last election the NDP accommodated Harper’s conservatives by precipitating an early election. Instead of opposing Harper’s conservatives as they should have they nipped at the heels of the Liberals, helping to assure a conservative victory.
Canada does not need two seditionist parties of the right. Unless the Liberals make a radical turn to the left and develop some very real political integrity and spine they have no role to play. They must re-invent themselves with some very real convictions and determination to defend this entity called Canada, otherwise they are a dead-ended party with no political currency to offer.
Canada’s civil society has been abandoned by its political elites. Elections offer no real choice as there is no party of the centre-left to stand for Canada. The Liberals and Conservatives are servants to American hegemony and the emergent corporate welfare state; while the NDP is an unimpressive political rump.
Whoever emerges as the new leader of Liberal Party of Canada must be a convincing leader with real vision and more than average political integrity- and dare we say it- a nationalist. By whatever means a coalition of the centre-left must be formed to give Canadians a real choice in the country’s destiny. Otherwise, the Liberal party and the country sink into a listless obscurity.
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on May 1, 2006]
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When the supposedly socialist NDP endorses 2 tier healthcare and remains obediently mum about the Annexation of Canada, they reveal their true stars and stripes - that of american conservatives. When the liberal party is to the right of the NDP - the are facists in hiding. The conservatives at least don't hide - they are openly facist.
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Dave Ruston
The new Conservatives defined the "left" as in favour of "big government" but it seems to me that the size of government has nothing to do with anything. The difference is merely the role of government in society. The Conservatives plan major increases in law enforcement, prisons, the military, and policing the bureaucracy. This does not promise "smaller" government but a major re-allocation of resources.
The Conservatives claimed that the "left" advocated more government involvement in controlling the economy and they would were "free market" proponents. One of the first moves of the new government was to sign a pact controlling markets in soft wood lumber.
The right claimed the left was too eager to buy votes through government hand outs. One of the Conservatives priorities is a $1200 handout to parents with children under six.
We do seem to be rapidly moving more and more towards a fascist political system run by another "second-world strongman." It seems to me that the "cult of leadership" and corporate statism is driven by the media.
Unfortunately, CAP is simply not able to deal with issues and questions beyond its monetary policy. There is no fourth party ready to move into the void.
Whatever gave you that idea?
The core of CAP's platform is monetary reform as monetary reform is a prerequisite for repairing everything else that is wrong in this country.
Healthcare and education - as long as we're paying more in interest to banks for loaning us our own money than we are for healthcare and education, both of those pillars of society will continue to deteriorate from lack of funding.
Unemployment and Homelessness - it is the Bank of Canada single-mindedly persuing its Non-Accelerating Inflation(wage) Rate of Unemployment agenda that is keeping Canadians from working. This agenda is solely to enable banks to continue inflating the money supply at alarming rates.
Selling off of Canada - it is the Canadian banks that refused loans to Canadian businesses in favour of lending to international corporations in order to buy Canada.
The Democratic Deficit - The backers of the backers of our current (and past) crops of fascists are the banks. They can only do this because of their ability to create money out of nothing.
Economic Growth - Canadian corporations pay more in interest on their debt than they do in taxes. During recessions profits go down. Taxation is based on profits so taxes also go down - interest payments on the other hand, go up! Recessions are caused by the Bank of Canada raising interest rates (too many employed people, they have to throw a bunch out of work) so the cost of debt increases. This is the exact opposite of taxation - yet taxation gets all the bad press.
Back in the 50s and 60s over 70% of corporate expansion was funded from profit - today 90% is funded by debt. Replace (over time) all this credit masquerading as money and you kill the parasite that is draining profitability from the private sector.
So you see, monetary reform is not CAPs only policy - it is the CORE of CAP policies, without which, nothing else is actually possible.
CAP has only one solution to everything. Unfortunately, policy development is not that simple.
Anytime I have tried to get an answer to questions about CAP's policies outside their core policy no one is able to respond even if it is part of their official policy declaration.
CAP has a great deal of work to do before it can attract voters. A party cannot ignore all of the other issues facing Canada today and be a viable political option.
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Dave Ruston
Healthcare is an issue today because of under-funding. We have only half as many spots for training doctors and nurses as we actually need, again because of underfunding. THe underfunding is due to interest on government debt which is over 36 billion dollars a year. The debt is due to the fraudlent debt based monetary system.
Turn around the monetary system and have the bank of Canada assume the portion of debt that it SHOULD have had all along as allowed by law and you suddenly have billions more dollars to fund healthcare and healthcare education.
Any other "solution" to the healthcare crisis is doomed to failure because there is no money left after interest payments to pay for them. Unless of course, you want to raise taxes/user fees to pay for the repairs.