Conservatives Bash Canada

That the right wingers are Gringolands Fifth Column is no secret, but for all the coverage it has gotten you would think it was. Glad to see this article. The Harpyites shouldn't be able to go anywhere with out being mobbed by people shouting "Traitor!". Nor must it ever be forgotten - though the mass media have - that these same right wingers would have us in the Iraq quagmire.<br />
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Ah, what else is new. We pinko commies here in Soviet Canuckistan are so backward, you know, because we don`t worship the fixed market, trickle down ( or should I say 'trickle up' ) economy.

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Dave Ruston

Actually there was some accurate commentary about the state of Canada. A casual observer from outside the country would see an entrenched governing party that has stolen and misused hundreds of millions of dollars and uses obscure jiggery-pokery tricks in Parliament to get Bills passed. That's got 'Banana Republic' written all over it. The Liberal Party is spending so much money so fast that Canada is on the verge of borrowing money on world markets to ensure that it remains a one-party state, if the economy burps - we're borrowing. Canadians should stop acting like frightened children at election time, adults need to make tough decisions sometimes.

Whenever possible pander to the Master. Strap on those knee pads, fella! The US of course does not spend money. Its massive debt is only a figment of my imagination. The $500 billion it pisses away on war does not really exist. The US one party with two names system is a reasonable facsimile of democracy, I suppose. Enron, the Savings and Loan Scam, the War For Drugs Scam don't exist either. Of course if they did exist, the hundred million squandered by the Liberals would look like nickels and dimes.

It's funny that the one G-8 country that has consistantly balanced its budget is targetted for being fiscally irresponsible. You know what is irresbonsible? Going off to war in some far off place when there are people in your country who are going bankrupt trying to pay the doctor's bill.

I think Canada gets a lot of critisism from the American right because they keep telling their people that what we have here is impossible to acheive. If you look at some of what the people on the left in the US are saying, we're great examples of how to be a responsible progressive nation (although, we are definately not progressive enough for my tastes).

I would like to point out though that a vast majority of Canadians did not vote for the Liberals in the last election (in fact, the last governing party to receive a majority of votes was the PC government of Brian Mulroney in 1984, and then by only 0.3%), so really it is our first past the post system, and not the voeters themselves, who should be blamed for this "one party state" of ours.

Actually the govt. setup we have now is better than I'd thought. I mean this is not better than a working STV or something, but at least this minority government is working. Different parties are actually dealing with each other diplomatically, and up to now everything seems to go swimmingly, at least to me (who is on the left).

The only instance that I know of that has not worked out for one of the parties is the Conservatives. I didn't quite get what had happened - how did they do a vote on something when another party isn't present? If indeed that was what happened - its really kind of low. (Though its true it'd been in the Conservatives' best interest not to call an election anyway, unless they had some other secret poll and strategy). But after that Harper really blew everything by calling the Bloc vote illegitimate.

Anyhow the parties are actually working to AGREE rather than doing acrimonious politics and accusations. Before I'd thought minority govt = nothing gets done, but now its like the politicians actually know how to work with each other.

Anarcho, it has nothing to do with right and left....it has to do with ideology.

What is so sad is that the old Conservatives were more patriotic Canadians than the Liberals. It is not the Liberals that have changed because they have traditionally promoted more integration with the United States. Anyone who had read Paul Martin's speeches over the past couple of years would realize that he is more patroitic to the concept of "globalization" and his own economic class than to Canada and Canadians. The Conservatives have promoted the idea and the Liberals are making it a reality.

The new conservatives media pundits like David Frum and Ezra Levant are anti-Canadian and many followers of the new Conservative Party are of the same ilk. Stephen Harper himself has promoted the adoption of "American values".

The new Conservatives are as different from the "old" Conservatives as night and day. The right wing ideologues, with the co-operation and assistance of the national media (including the CBC), robbed traditional Canadian Conservatives of their name and their party, in order to push divisive polarized politics. It appears they did it simply because it creates cheaper and better news. As such they have a lot to answer for.

Actually you can thank Brian (Irish Eye's) Mulroney for gutting the Grand Old Party of Dienfenbaker and Stanfield and leaving it's bloody entrails to be picked off by the prairie coyotes of Prestons Reform Party.

While Mulroney can be given a fair share of the blame, there are many others who contributed. That includes all the Canadians who did not care enough to ensure they had another centrist choice and those who were so eager to "beat the Liberals" that they did not looked beyond the garbage they were being fed by the party leadership.