The recent passing by Federal Parliament of the harmonization of the sales tax in Ontario and BC might be the climax in the end of the Liberal Party as we once knew it. With leadership problems over the last two years, the ex-leaders wife questioning the party's future and the Martin Cauchon fiasco, the question must now be asked what is the Liberal Party's future in Canadian politics? I know it's the Liberal red machine, but who would have guessed twenty or even ten years ago the party would go into debt or that it would fall to 26 percent? The HST vote next week will be the proverbial fork in the road and which way they vote might impact their legitimacy in future years.
Lets first consider what type of pickle their provincial cousins in Ontario and BC have put Iggy and the gang in. Although the HST has always been Liberal policy the fundamental difference between the Federal and Provincial Liberals is massive. Both Keith Martin of BC and Bob Rae of Ontario missed all three votes in Ottawa. They are not the only ones opposed, Hedi Frey Ujjal Dosanj and other held their nose as they voted for the new tax. In Nova Scotia the Liberal and Conservatives were wiped off the face of the political map by the NDP in what political commentators called a shocking result. Well if they had noticed both the Liberals and the Conservatives supported the HST which not only eliminated peoples income it destroyed the economy.
During the last Federal election Craig Oliver a senior reporter at CTV and a well know Liberal sympathizer wrote an article throwing out there the possibility that the Liberal Party of Canada will be overtaken by the NDP as the left wing party of Canada and that the same party will disapear into oblivion as was the case of the English Liberal Party in the 1920's when it was taken over by the Labour Party. The question was a good one, is the Liberal Party of Canada alienating itself enough from the people that it has the possibility of being overtaken by the NDP? That question cannot be answered by myself, only time can do that, but as we've seen provincially in Nova Scotia the possibility exists.
One thing I do know is that the HST is bad, the income tax cuts are good but to at the same time raise the price of virtually everything else negates all that would be accomplished by an income tax cut. The split within the Federal Liberal Party coupled with the real and honest anger of the people of Ontario and British Columbia doesn't bode well for the Party deemed undefeatable just a few years ago. The base of the Liberals was and has always been the forty hours a week worker not the corporate boss that sits in his or her ivory tower, normal hard working people will undoubably be pissed in Ontario on July 1st when they ring in Canada Day with a brand new tax brought to them by the Liberal Party of Canada and Ontario.
For me the Liberal Party has been on the decline since the late great Pierre Elliot Trudeau left the political scene. Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, Stephane Dion and now Michael Ignatieff have never put Canada first and finally I believe the Party is about to pay a price at the polls that will make Mr Dion's defeat look like a walk in the park.
Now don't get me wrong the Liberal Party is known as the machine for a reason and they can always make a comeback and return to their former glory, but I do not see the love for the Liberal brand as I used to even five years ago. The HST will be the Liberal Party's epitaph and it will read the HST killed the Liberal Party in 2010.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Protectionism Why Not?
Recently United States President Barack Obama visited China on his first trip to Asia as President. There to greet him was Hu Jin Tao the President of the Peoples Republic of China. As per usual had their normal talks on North Korea, Human Rights in China and oh yeah that thing called "free trade". The globalistic chains that enslave us right at this moment as we speak. President Hu began by describing his conversations with the new President. The cordial talks we had, he began were warm in nature and delved into various topics including the economy where we hope we can both "shun Protectionism".
Shun Protectionism? for those who don't know Protectionism is the restraining of free trade by increasing tariffs on foreign goods and restricting quotas as well as other methods to get free trade to stop or at least be limited in scope. Protectionism has been attacked as being anti trade as well as anti union. Here are the facts, I support trade, but if you want to come to my country and trade with my nations businesses, then you have to pay to come in. You do not deserve a free ride beacause you say you will offer jobs and business. We have seen too many times when businesses come to my country and others, make promises and then once the contract is signed, they go back on their word. Prime exanple is in Greece where the port was handed over Chinese Cosco a day before the Greek general elections and now the union nor the government can't do anything, because an anti union party signed the agreement.
As for being anti union, any company associated with free trade and globalization, in my view at least doesn't believe in unions or workers rights. Those companies that promote free trade must be fought tooth and nail by their union to promote fair trade instead. Free trade is another way of saying screw the worker, profit is more important. That attitude must end and must end now, one of the main reasons why Barack Obama was elected President was because he appealed to those workers in the States and elsewhere in North America that loathed NAFTA, and wanted to see changes not only to that treachery but also to other agreements that screwed workers and our country.
If the President goes back on this as he has gone back on Guantanamo Bay then his Presindency will be like Jimmy Carter's, one term. If he takes the Chinese advise and betrays the workers, then he will have hell to pay in November 2012. His vote will erode and the world will be back to the most powerful nation in the world being run by warmongerers(Republican Party). I don't want that and I know the majority of the world doesn't want that either.
All protectionism does is that it imposes taxes on corporations that do not come from this country, both tariffs and quotas would hit its peak, and if you think that is the worst thing we could do, a lot of nations including Brazil and Turkey two of the economy's picked by Forbes magazine 2008 to be the economy's in the world most likely to become powers by 2015. If we want a strong economy, jobs made in Canada, for Canadians by Canadians, then we must adopt protectionism as at least a pilot project for our economic future and well being.
Shun Protectionism? for those who don't know Protectionism is the restraining of free trade by increasing tariffs on foreign goods and restricting quotas as well as other methods to get free trade to stop or at least be limited in scope. Protectionism has been attacked as being anti trade as well as anti union. Here are the facts, I support trade, but if you want to come to my country and trade with my nations businesses, then you have to pay to come in. You do not deserve a free ride beacause you say you will offer jobs and business. We have seen too many times when businesses come to my country and others, make promises and then once the contract is signed, they go back on their word. Prime exanple is in Greece where the port was handed over Chinese Cosco a day before the Greek general elections and now the union nor the government can't do anything, because an anti union party signed the agreement.
As for being anti union, any company associated with free trade and globalization, in my view at least doesn't believe in unions or workers rights. Those companies that promote free trade must be fought tooth and nail by their union to promote fair trade instead. Free trade is another way of saying screw the worker, profit is more important. That attitude must end and must end now, one of the main reasons why Barack Obama was elected President was because he appealed to those workers in the States and elsewhere in North America that loathed NAFTA, and wanted to see changes not only to that treachery but also to other agreements that screwed workers and our country.
If the President goes back on this as he has gone back on Guantanamo Bay then his Presindency will be like Jimmy Carter's, one term. If he takes the Chinese advise and betrays the workers, then he will have hell to pay in November 2012. His vote will erode and the world will be back to the most powerful nation in the world being run by warmongerers(Republican Party). I don't want that and I know the majority of the world doesn't want that either.
All protectionism does is that it imposes taxes on corporations that do not come from this country, both tariffs and quotas would hit its peak, and if you think that is the worst thing we could do, a lot of nations including Brazil and Turkey two of the economy's picked by Forbes magazine 2008 to be the economy's in the world most likely to become powers by 2015. If we want a strong economy, jobs made in Canada, for Canadians by Canadians, then we must adopt protectionism as at least a pilot project for our economic future and well being.
The End of Liberal Democracy In Canada
Now the title might throw some people off. The end of Liberal Democracy in Canada doesn't mean the political ideology is dying or dead, no far from it. It is a play on words describing the illegal crowning of Michael Ignatieff as leader of the Liberal Party and more importantly as leader of the opposition. The Napoleonic self-crowning took but a few short weeks and it stems from my first blog posting. Yes the dreaded Parliamentary crisis of December 2008 created the mockary of Democracy within the Liberal Party of Canada that culminated in Michael Ignatieff becoming leader of the Party and opposition.
It all began that day in December when the Govenor General and the Prime Minister conspired to keep things in order by derailing the coalition. At the time the entire Liberal caucus including Ignatieff that the coalition was the right way to go. Well after the Dion office speach debacle the higherarchy of the Liberal Party decided to act and relieve Stephane Dion, the elected leader of the party and hand over the keys to "Iggy".
The other leadership candidates from the Montreal convention just two years earlier began to question the arrangement including Bob Rae who was the co favorite with Ignatieff both in Montreal and post Dion dumping day. Then a week later after the new year came and went it was decided again by the top brass that there wouldn't even be a vote or possibly even a convention for that matter. It allegedly was decided because of the crucial time period and the possiblity of the government falling.
I began to think, this is not only not the party of Pierre Elliot Trudeau anymore, but it was becoming an anti democratic and unconstitutional party as well. My next question was why would the common Liberal Party member put up with this Napoleonic self-crowning of a leader? Well obviously other party members were asking the same question because a few days later it was announced by the elites in the party, oh yeah and Iggy as well, that there would be a convention Vancouver in April of 2009.
When asked by reporters whether the "only Iggy candidacy" stood, they said it would be up to Bob and the rest to decide that. A week later, one by one fell into the party trap and stood aside as their new king was to be crowned. Except that good old Bob didn't immediately give up on democracy. It took some arm twisting and the fact that the most recent arrival to the party felt like an outsider, thus he wilted under the pressure and jumped on the Iggy bandwagon.
If I was a Liberal Party member I would have torn up my membership once Ignatieff was crowned the new opposition leader. On May 2nd 2009 democracy died in the Liberal Party, Ignatieff was crowned leader of the Party and opposition. It is time for a new generation of people to take over the party and throw out the new king. Oh yeah and once he became the crowned prince of the Liberal Party he renounced the coalition that would have saved Canada from the US styled Neo Cons. Like most times Canadians will now be bombarded by the media elite that the next election is between the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.
Don't believe the hype, if that is the case then Canada is doomed into going in circles in that garden maze and never getting out. Before this episode the Liberal Party could at least be counted on to show more democratic principles than the protect property don't give money to social program Conservatives who have shown a history of backstabbing good people and politicians. I am afraid that the two Parties are now completely the same in all forms, and the only way to defeat them is to organize and annahilate them as political forces.
I will personally start with the Liberal Party, how will you start? If the people within the Liberal and Conservative Parties don't do it then the people will collectively do it for them. These archaic beliefs don't fly anymore, people in this country should and won't stand for this kind of desecration of our national democracy. I call on all Liberal Party member friends of mine to question this instance in the great history of your Party and think is this the party I joined or is this the party that will eliminate the hardships the Conservatives have caused? I leave it up to you to decide.
It all began that day in December when the Govenor General and the Prime Minister conspired to keep things in order by derailing the coalition. At the time the entire Liberal caucus including Ignatieff that the coalition was the right way to go. Well after the Dion office speach debacle the higherarchy of the Liberal Party decided to act and relieve Stephane Dion, the elected leader of the party and hand over the keys to "Iggy".
The other leadership candidates from the Montreal convention just two years earlier began to question the arrangement including Bob Rae who was the co favorite with Ignatieff both in Montreal and post Dion dumping day. Then a week later after the new year came and went it was decided again by the top brass that there wouldn't even be a vote or possibly even a convention for that matter. It allegedly was decided because of the crucial time period and the possiblity of the government falling.
I began to think, this is not only not the party of Pierre Elliot Trudeau anymore, but it was becoming an anti democratic and unconstitutional party as well. My next question was why would the common Liberal Party member put up with this Napoleonic self-crowning of a leader? Well obviously other party members were asking the same question because a few days later it was announced by the elites in the party, oh yeah and Iggy as well, that there would be a convention Vancouver in April of 2009.
When asked by reporters whether the "only Iggy candidacy" stood, they said it would be up to Bob and the rest to decide that. A week later, one by one fell into the party trap and stood aside as their new king was to be crowned. Except that good old Bob didn't immediately give up on democracy. It took some arm twisting and the fact that the most recent arrival to the party felt like an outsider, thus he wilted under the pressure and jumped on the Iggy bandwagon.
If I was a Liberal Party member I would have torn up my membership once Ignatieff was crowned the new opposition leader. On May 2nd 2009 democracy died in the Liberal Party, Ignatieff was crowned leader of the Party and opposition. It is time for a new generation of people to take over the party and throw out the new king. Oh yeah and once he became the crowned prince of the Liberal Party he renounced the coalition that would have saved Canada from the US styled Neo Cons. Like most times Canadians will now be bombarded by the media elite that the next election is between the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.
Don't believe the hype, if that is the case then Canada is doomed into going in circles in that garden maze and never getting out. Before this episode the Liberal Party could at least be counted on to show more democratic principles than the protect property don't give money to social program Conservatives who have shown a history of backstabbing good people and politicians. I am afraid that the two Parties are now completely the same in all forms, and the only way to defeat them is to organize and annahilate them as political forces.
I will personally start with the Liberal Party, how will you start? If the people within the Liberal and Conservative Parties don't do it then the people will collectively do it for them. These archaic beliefs don't fly anymore, people in this country should and won't stand for this kind of desecration of our national democracy. I call on all Liberal Party member friends of mine to question this instance in the great history of your Party and think is this the party I joined or is this the party that will eliminate the hardships the Conservatives have caused? I leave it up to you to decide.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?
As it is rememberance day soon I would like to pay tribute to those who throughout the years have given life and limb for Canada. I would like to remember every single regiment and division in the Army, Navy, Airforce and all other branches that I haven't mentioned. The question> where have all the soldiers gone is a legitimate one. The question about the actual wars and the reason must at least for remeberance day in my point of view be put aside and forgotten. I will never on the other hand forget the sacrifice and commitment our brave men and women have shown throughout our great history.
In the beginning even though we weren't a country Canadians and new Canadians were dying for this country because they knew how great it could be. The British army, the Quebec Voltaguers and the United Native Nations helped to defeat the United States and kepy Canada free from an expantionist American Government that was out to colonize the whole American penninsula. When we became a nation the Boer war ripped this country apart internally but our men went to war not asking the reason why and died. This is why I take one day out of the year to not question the reason for war because our brave men and woman don't all year round, as a respect to them I in turn respect their commitment. This has continued to this day, and as a small token to their commitment to the nation I must do the same at least for one day.
The First World War was not a great war it was a war in which the masses found out that war was not the great glorious institution it was made out to be, yet they still enlisted on mass when Canada entered WW2. The reasons not to enlist were given by all those experienced the torture of the trenches of Western Europe, and yet those who are rightly called the greatest generation had the guts and the heart to go overseas thousands of miles from home to help keep Europe and the World from falling into the hands of monsters.
The recent years have had peacekeeping missions in Cyprus, Lebanon and more recently in Rwanda and Bosnia who have seen the worst and have come out no better yet have earned the respect and have earned their honour. The war in Afganistan and all the other wars in my point of view are not and will never be the soldiers fault, but they show duty and and great service to their nation by taking the responsibility for the result whether they agree with the war or not. They serve with honour so let us serve them as civilians by not sending them into harms way unless absolutly neccessary. Thank you for reading and please remember our brave men and woman on November Eleventh. Wear a poppy whether you agree with wars or not, it's just the right thing to do.
Lest we forget. RIP to those who haven't lived to see this day AMEN.
In the beginning even though we weren't a country Canadians and new Canadians were dying for this country because they knew how great it could be. The British army, the Quebec Voltaguers and the United Native Nations helped to defeat the United States and kepy Canada free from an expantionist American Government that was out to colonize the whole American penninsula. When we became a nation the Boer war ripped this country apart internally but our men went to war not asking the reason why and died. This is why I take one day out of the year to not question the reason for war because our brave men and woman don't all year round, as a respect to them I in turn respect their commitment. This has continued to this day, and as a small token to their commitment to the nation I must do the same at least for one day.
The First World War was not a great war it was a war in which the masses found out that war was not the great glorious institution it was made out to be, yet they still enlisted on mass when Canada entered WW2. The reasons not to enlist were given by all those experienced the torture of the trenches of Western Europe, and yet those who are rightly called the greatest generation had the guts and the heart to go overseas thousands of miles from home to help keep Europe and the World from falling into the hands of monsters.
The recent years have had peacekeeping missions in Cyprus, Lebanon and more recently in Rwanda and Bosnia who have seen the worst and have come out no better yet have earned the respect and have earned their honour. The war in Afganistan and all the other wars in my point of view are not and will never be the soldiers fault, but they show duty and and great service to their nation by taking the responsibility for the result whether they agree with the war or not. They serve with honour so let us serve them as civilians by not sending them into harms way unless absolutly neccessary. Thank you for reading and please remember our brave men and woman on November Eleventh. Wear a poppy whether you agree with wars or not, it's just the right thing to do.
Lest we forget. RIP to those who haven't lived to see this day AMEN.
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