As a long time supporter of progressive political policies in Canada I was perplexed and dismayed by the results of our recent federal election. My consternation led me to write the article that is attached to this letter. The essence of my analysis is summed up in the opening comments:
The 2006 federal election has set the stage for a possible dismantling of Canada's distinctive social and economic fabric. The newly evolved Conservative Party, in many respects a chilling echo of the USA's Republican Party, is poised for a two-stage attack to reshape Canada in line with its Canadian version of America's neoconservative ideology.
The purpose of this letter is to urge the NDP and the Liberals to begin the process of forming a coalition and, if this turns out favourably, to consider the prospect, under the right conditions, of eventually merging the two parties into a centre-left Liberal Democratic Party.
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Canada And The American Empire
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Robert Billyard
1. Would replacing deep integration with corporate globalization be preferable? The United States is a leader in corporate globalization as is the WHO. Corporate globalization is just as big a threat to national sovereignty and civil societies all over the world as North American integration.
2. Neither what he called left wing Liberals nor the NDP have shown any indication that they oppose deep integration. Both support FTA and NAFTA. What benefit would it be to unite unless they were willing to take a stand which Ryan himself suggests they are too timid to do?
3. Are there really any left wing Liberals? While the Liberal Party may campaign on the left once in power they move back to the right suggesting that the impression that there are left wing Liberals may be false.
4. Ryan proposes the complete re-alignment of politics according to the Ernest Manning thesis. That suggests a total abandonment of consensus politics for the more conflictual class warfare of ideological politics. Is that what we really need or want?
5. Should we simply focus on selling our natural resources rather than developing them ourselves?
6. The statement "Following 9/11 the Bush administration made it clear that security would trump trade for the foreseeable future" may now be meaningless. The control over some US ports (and one Canadian port) by a Middle Eastern corporation suggests that corporate globalization trumps security today and some in the Bush Administration have indicated that is the case.
"6. The statement "Following 9/11 the Bush administration made it clear that security would trump trade for the foreseeable future" may now be meaningless. The control over some US ports (and one Canadian port) by a Middle Eastern corporation suggests that corporate globalization trumps security today and some in the Bush Administration have indicated that is the case."
That is an excellent point. Which is further proof that the "war on terror/long war" is just a tool to facilitate the New World Order. However, there is some comedy coming out of all the now obvious irony that has created a stage full of naked emperors.
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
The chains of the nazis and communists were bloody and rusty, of the capitalists' are gilded and shiny, but chains are chains, no matter what colour.
And they all preached and promised "freedom", just as religions are preaching and promising "everlasting life".
Now go to any university and ask any economics professor of the best way to go? They'll tell you that it is deep integration and globalization to "cut costs and create wealth". The same crap promised by Marxist economics professors.
Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.