Chávez Leads The Way

Viva Hugo Chavez!!!

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Dave Ruston

Good man or otherwise, he's teetering dangerously towards cult-of-
personality status. That never ends well, doesn't matter who you start out as.

that's right... but who will canadianize our oil & gas? who will make us a national power grid & make us indigenous auto, shipbuilding, farm machinery, aircraft (etc) industries? where is canada's chavez??

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

Unfortunately, only the PQ and BQ can do these things. Not only do they have an inherent hatred for the English-speaking world (primarily the USA, but also English Canada), but they have the tenacity and savvy to work the system. Look at what they've gotten out of English Canada with their whining and threats. Let's turn 'em loose on the Americans.

The path to the dark side, hatred is.

Quebec's "hatred" should not be goaded further, that's the kind of thing your
Harpers and Mulroneys mistakenly believe they can "manage". It means
backroom political deals that push a healthy, cultural, nationalism toward a
dangerous and cynical facism, the kind that ends up losing "to the ethnic
vote" (a phrase only made pleasant by the doppler effect that accompanied it).

All that aside, the "tenacity and savvy" of Quebec francophones is
commendable (independent-minded Albertans are said to express quiet
reverence). Anything gets labelled as "whining and threats" when it comes to
discussing facts that the halls of power would prefer to ignore.

Call Chavez what you want, he`s doing good things that other politicians lack the backbone to do!

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Dave Ruston

There's no way to get out of the deadly race to the bottom until and unless we get out from the stranglehold of the NAFTA and WTO. By World Bank figures Canada and Australia are the richest countries on Earth by far. We did very well on our own, when the Canadian Dollar was .05 to .10 cents above the US. Now our corporations and politicians get hysterical when it gets as high as .20 cents below that worthless currency. If we'd wanted to go back to the living standards of the '50s and '60s the average hourly wage would have to be around $50. Now we're "competitive" and the only things going up are costs, prices, and multinationals taking our wealth from the country, while incomes and services to the public are stagnating, or sinking.
The neoclassical, top down, forced poverty, competitive market economic system is destroying our ecology and the human race. Canada is in excellent position for the development of ground up, locally based and controlled economic and production systems to create real wealth and sustainability all over the world. The secret of well being is co-operation, not competition, and the efficient use of human and natural resources. Not the present promotion of what the Germans call a "Rauberwirtschaft", or "robber economy" Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.

Hugo Chavez has the guts to stick up for his people, I wish our politicians had some courage so we would get out of NAFTA once and for all

This obnoxious yankee doodle "dandy" thinks Ed is on to something. NAFTA and the WTO aren't doing much good for anyone. If you want to know about Chavez, get some Venezuelans here to tell you about him. As Chavez seems to be a burning issue for Canadian "sovereigntists/deep integrationists". Maybe everyone...besides debating what the American people had for breakfast this morning, and whether or not it would cause the world's destruction if they broke wind with ruminants of same in a gaseous form...should debate why Chavez is the new savior of Canadian sovereignty and will fly up to Canada forthwith and stave off that deep integration that is taking place.
Ed is spot on. NAFTA and WTO only enable the rich to get richer off everyone. No matter what nationality.

The only obnoxious yankees I know are in that government and running these multinational gangster outfits, calling them "wealth creating foreign investment". All others are welcome for an organic steak at my table.
The real American people are also suffering from these phoney free trade deals, as they have been suffering from the effects of laissez faire "free enterprise" until Roosevelt put a temporary halt to their exploitation, but now don't dare to talk about it, while they're going down the drain. 2 1/2 million US manufacturing jobs gone since Bush, now the so called intellectual jobs also moving out, with both governing Parties on the bandwagon, urging for more. We're in the same boat. When we call a 1-800 number, we're answered from India. Sears called me the other day about an order. From India. At least here in Canada we have a bit more political choice, albeit rapidly shrinking .

Perhaps you could explain why your people put up with these lies and gradually creeping oppression, while calling it free enterprise and democracy ? Chavez was elected by the Venezuelans to the best of my knowledge, but special interest groups, with the help of the US government are trying to bring back the total exploitation characteristic in oil producing countries, with some of the greatest destitution on Earth, while their GDP is soaring in the skies. The reason some here are praising Chavez is that he stood up and told some of these crooks to take off. The problem with revolutions is that they're often replaced with worse criminals. The jury is still out on Chavez, but it shouldn't be sitting in Washington. However, the jury over the Bush gang should be and soon. Until then, don't blame us for not liking them and saying so. Just as people who don't like Chavez should be free to say so. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.