What Harper Stands For

To know what policies prime minister Harper would promote, Canadians need to examine the roots and beliefs of this organization.

The NCC was founded in 1967 by an insurance salesman who hated medicare. In a 1984 newsletter to its members, the NCC claimed Canadians would "die" as a result of the new Canada Health Act.

In the intervening years, the NCC ? its advisory board is a who's who of the corporate world ? has been a highly funded opponent of unions, official bilingualism and multiculturalism, social programs, public schools, the post office, equity programs for women and minorities, the wheat board and government grants to the arts.

An article in the May, 1995, NCC newsletter claimed that democracy is an Anglo-Saxon institution. Somerville wrote in the March, 1996, NCC newsletter that Canada should abandon attempts to keep Quebec in Confederation.

"If you want red meat for breakfast then you want to get involved in something like the National Citizens Coalition," he once said. Harper's current "red meat" views are alarming.

While slamming Atlantic Canada as a "can't do" culture, and calling Canada a "second-tier socialistic country" in a newspaper column, he signed the famous "Firewall Manifesto" after the 2000 election, calling on Alberta to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan and medicare, collect its own income tax, and kick out the RCMP.

He supports private health-care delivery (a "natural development" he said in the House of Commons on Oct. 28, 2000) and the provincial governments that want to opt out of medicare.

His cavalier attitude toward a united Canada was laid out in a 1994 NNC speech: "Whether Canada ends up with one national government or two governments or 10 governments, the Canadian people will require less government no matter what the constitutional status or arrangement of any future country may be."

On foreign policy, Harper is stridently pro-American, a hawk on defence and security and dismissive of the U.N.

He supports U.S. President George Bush's war in Iraq, calling the Canadian position "abrasively neutral."

He critiques Canada's historic foreign policy position of multilateralism as a "weak nation strategy" and says that Canada should join the Bush administration's missile defence program.

He calls for "continental economic and security integration" with the U.S. as well as a "continental energy strategy" that should be broadened "to a range of other natural resources."

Is he referring to Canada's water?

And he openly supports U.S. military might over the "soft power" of diplomacy.

In a May, 2003, speech to the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Harper said: "The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might."

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WOW is the new American Party more like the "Bloc Alberta" Party or what!!

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