What The Liberals Need!

Mr. Dion is tainted by having been a Martin Liberal and as The Globe and Mail report indicates he does not poll well in his home province--he is a candidate of division rather than unity. In its present incarnation the Liberal Party of Canada is dead in the water. Since the Trudeau era the party has been steadily drifting to the right, such that Canada now has two right wing parties. With the conservatives united under Harper the Liberals are politically non-viable. The first thing they need to do is return to the political centre. The last federal election was in reality a stalemate. Voters were faced with choosing between two right wing parties- one that deserved to be kicked out of office and the fledgling Conservatives whom for good reasons voters did not trust, and of course the NDP on the political fringe. Voters though, made the best of a bad situation grudgingly granting the Conservatives a probationary minority government, punishing the feckless Liberals but still leaving them over a hundred seats, and rewarding the NDP for being there with ten extra seats. The Liberals are no longer “the natural governing party.” They can no longer play the wicked little game of “campaigning left and governing right.” They need to grow up and behave like real stalwarts of the realm. They need to provide Canadians with real choice, meaningful choice and practice a modicum of political integrity. The Martin and Chretien Liberals, ably mentored by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (lead by the redoubtable CEO Thomas d’Aquino) in their unbounded disloyalty to the citizenry of this country embarked on Deep Intregation, which in less polite terms is the selling out of Canada by its business and political elites. d’Aquino and his merry band of corporate Philistines want the country turned into a corporate welfare state ruled by executive edict. The torch of sedition has now been passed to Harper’s Conservatives. There is a need for a party of the political centre, thus providing Canadians with real choice and not the namby-pamby quisling double speak we have been hearing. Our sovereignty is at a terminal tipping point and whatever our final destiny may be it must be through the referendum of political choice and not the cowardly political slither we are now seeing. “Take note” parliamentary debates are not acceptable. Harper’s treasonous conservatives are now hunkered down hoping they can dupe the electorate into giving them a majority government-if they get it all hell will break loose. The next election will be pivotal and it must a straight two way contest between the right and a coalition of the centre and left led by a rejuvenated Liberal party. Canada’s centre and left must dispense with their ideological nitpicking and coalesce even if it means the destruction of the NDP in the polling booths. Canada is a country turned inside out. We tolerate our quisling political and business elites and shun our patriots. There are still a few leaders out there who are patriots, who believe in this country and its essential worth. Though the Liberal party doesn’t deserve such a leader they need one in more ways than they realize. The current slate of candidates is clearly lacking in this regard. Should such a leadership candidate be forthcoming the welcome mat should be out. [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on April 17, 2006]