It's an assumptive doubt of nationhood laboured by greater numbers of Canadians daily, Americans would find difficult to comprehend:
- "Of course Canadians are Canadians; just like Americans are Americans!" they'd say.
What being second banana, Numero dos, really means doesn't occur to they: Number One, U.-S.-A.!!! But it's a bitter fact: For all our northern bravado, we've always been a rump nation, first of Great Britain, now the United States; but foremost and ever lairded over by a wafer thin elite, the inheritors of a colonialism that never died. The sons and daughters of privilege in this country have survived atop the frosty pyramid of Canada's power elite by following one guiding principle: Adaptation. Tomorrow's vote in the House is more about a choosing up, in the face of an election pending only a single failed motion.
Pictured best perhaps as a gathering of rats upon a burning forecastle, readying for a stampede, jockeying now for the best line to reach the safety of the pier, tomorrow's vote in Parliament is about which will be the new Master of the White House, and how best to position one's self to serve?
Today, the prime minister exudes a smirking confidence, daring the Liberals for months to bring it on, and overturn just one of a series of nation-changing Bills already enacted, triggering an election. So far, the Liberals have played possum, no-shows for the most part, poking their heads up every now and then to take pot shots at more trivial Harper failures, and those of his ethically-challenged coterie, to little effect. One of the Bills allowed recently to pass adopts U.S.-style law and order reforms that initiate odious 'mandatory minimum sentencing,' (a complete disaster for the hundreds of thousands inmate-Americans, and the taxpayers burdened with the bill for private, for-profit prisons) and a generally hard-line approach to social management foreign for decades in liberal Canada.
The next vote failing will see billions upon billions more devoted for years more of the occupation of Afghanistan, and a quiet continuance of the smaller garrison patrol of 'Insurgent Haiti.' More importantly, if passed it will confer on the nation the dedication to a corporate military state for at least the next generation.
Pictured best perhaps as a gathering of rats upon a burning forecastle, readying for a stampede, jockeying now for the best line to reach the safety of the pier, tomorrow's vote in Parliament is about which will be the new Master of the White House, and how best to position one's self to serve?
Today, the prime minister exudes a smirking confidence, daring the Liberals for months to bring it on, and overturn just one of a series of nation-changing Bills already enacted, triggering an election. So far, the Liberals have played possum, no-shows for the most part, poking their heads up every now and then to take pot shots at more trivial Harper failures, and those of his ethically-challenged coterie, to little effect. One of the Bills allowed recently to pass adopts U.S.-style law and order reforms that initiate odious 'mandatory minimum sentencing,' (a complete disaster for the hundreds of thousands inmate-Americans, and the taxpayers burdened with the bill for private, for-profit prisons) and a generally hard-line approach to social management foreign for decades in liberal Canada.
The next vote failing will see billions upon billions more devoted for years more of the occupation of Afghanistan, and a quiet continuance of the smaller garrison patrol of 'Insurgent Haiti.' More importantly, if passed it will confer on the nation the dedication to a corporate military state for at least the next generation.
The bipartisan agreement between the controlling parties of the House of Commons for several decades on foreign policy, already a mirror image of the climate in Washington through all vagaries will remain despite the occupant of 1600 Penn. Ave., because the consensus among the similarly veneer-like elite in America is again agreed:
- War is good for business.
So war it will be.
Canadians: You can still send e:mails, etc. to members... it's quite likely your last chance
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