Orange Crush Becomes NDP Crushed: David Krayden

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Site Editor

Members of the decidedly withering Bloc Quebecois caucus would probably be the first to acknowledge, with exuberant pride, their Gaullist ancestry, meaning a family tree with its roots in present-day France. But what the BQ has never lacked – and what really has fuelled its political history – is just plain gall. The report this week from La Presse, that former BQ leader and defeated Member of Parliament Gilles Duceppe paid his party’s general manager with House of Commons funds – up to $100,000 annually for seven years – is just another example of how this traitorous party has no business conducting the nation’s business; no reason to occupy seats in the House of Commons except to advance a separatist agenda while collecting a pay cheque and furnishing a pension that are provided by the very country that they are so desperately trying to destroy.

It is difficult to imagine another country where a separatist party can not only sit in the federal legislature but has the mind boggling nerve to spend public money on its private agenda.

There are still four of these misplaced Quebec MPPs taking up space in the House of Commons – one less member than required for official party status – so they will not be paying anyone 100 grand a year with public funds but we will be better off when the last of Bloc head is retired.

Writing the cheerless history of the Bloc is a journey through outrageous entitlement. Let this latest installment in the BQ Story be the final chapter.

At least there was unanimous party condemnation of the arrangement, with the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP agreeing that this was not public money well spent. When it comes to criticizing the Bloc, it has been difficult in the past to rouse any sort of emotion approaching outrage, disgust or disapproval from the NDP. For left-thinking socialists, the trough of tolerance for “progressive,” language-embattled Quebec is deep. The NDP reserves its contempt for anything or anybody standing in the way of its social reengineering project; it could never quite accept the existence of the Reform Party for instance, as if Preston Manning and his fellow MPs should never have shaken up the ideological status quo in Ottawa.

Perhaps the NDP has discovered a growing antagonism towards the BQ because the effervescence of the “Orange Crush” that seemed so perky in Quebec in the last election has gone flat. According to a CROP poll this week, this post-election burp has reduced the NDP from 53 per cent support last June to just 29 per cent today. Though the Conservatives are in second place with 24 per cent, the Bloc is not far behind with 22. Thus the fight for the hard left vote in Quebec has been defined and, if these numbers remain relatively constant, the next election contest should prove to be a tightly contested four-way fight.

Surely, the NDP did not really believe that it could reelect the entirety of its Quebec caucus, this curious assortment of MPs, many of whom never dreamed of sitting in the House of Commons, and at least one of whom never even bothered to campaign. But it will certainly aspire to repeat this electoral phenomenon and it will strive to outdo the separatists in promising Quebec all manner of special status in Confederation and increased protection of its language, culture and way of life – one that includes massive government spending, higher unemployment than the rest of Canada, low productivity and the highest percentage of part-time workers and absentee employees on the continent.

Whether Quebec votes for soft or hard separatism, it is time that the province joined the rest of the country in the economic realities of the twenty-first century. Many in Quebec are cognizant of this reality and some of the best conservative thinking resides in that province. Listen to the economic thinking of Quebec MP (and former foreign affairs minister) Maxime Bernier and you might be listening to one vying for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party. Hopefully, in the next election, instead of sending 59 MPs to warm the seats in Parliament, they will choose free-enterprise alternatives who have come to Ottawa to get on with the nation’s business and work for a Quebec that is free, prosperous and equal with every other province.

David Krayden is the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies, an independent, not-for-profit institution dedicated to the advancement of freedom and prosperity through the development and promotion of good public policy.

Reflections on the election by patriot Richard Field

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Site Editor

Hi friends in politics:

What can one say? It is an excellent result because the Conservative Party of Canada and PM Harper’s majority win, contrasted so starkly with the NDP’s crass pandering and the demise of the destructive Liberals. It has beneficially polarized the fundamental differences between the two major groups of Canadians.

The NDP being the sick group that believe the State should look after all their needs from cradle to grave an thinks our free society should never fight to preserve our fundamental freedoms. Their issue is spending all our money on their entitlement wants rather than providing our warriors with the weapons they need to fend off the world’s multitudinous bandits. A group that finds no shame in relying on the “nasty USA” to carry the entire burden of our national safety and finds no shame in treating with our enemies. To say nothing of their telling the Quebecois he wants to see their crass language laws spread to all Canada’s civil servants working in Quebec.

These takers and appeasers are the guys and gals that care not a whit for Canada unless we squander our hard won earnings on behavioural tribunals to rule us with their craven Human Rights Commissioners and political appointees who think no minority group should ever have their feelings hurt (poor dears) by the sometimes harsh opinions of a free people. The Liberals, their alter egos, are thankfully reduced to a rump and will take a long time to revive. Let us hope Bob Rae takes over, that should finish off them forever. Good luck to that!

The other group and preponderance of Canadians think their wants and needs should be satisfied by hard work and creativity. They also believe that the total wealth of the country must be expanded by careful financial control of our taxes and incentives to encourage the best there is in each individual’s determination to do better, work harder and achieve. They believe the struggle to rise to be the best they can be is healthier for society and for themselves.

They believe that compassion is necessary for the truly limited individuals in our society but meaningful compassion cannot be contemplated unless the society itself is healthy in every way. They know that if we try to play saviour to all the weak of Canada and the World we will become weak, less free and ultimately fail as a civilized country.

So, is the Election’s stark revelation of the division of Canadians between the strivers and creators of national wealth versus the leaners and takers a good thing? Yes it is and the more stark it becomes the stronger the right side of history will be with an ever increasing number of conservative builders in Canada’s society. The young will mature in their understanding of the “new” more predominant conservative ethic of achievement. These early socialists will drain away to the free enterprise reward and risk taking society until only a few old diehards of the socialist Marxist “equal outcomes” mantra are left.

Another observation: I personally worked for the election of our CPC candidate in my riding and among other things delivered over 4000 brochures to the doors of high rise buildings in our area. We lost but helped remove the Liberal candidate by splitting the vote. We were pleased especially as our candidate was running for the first time in a heavily socialist area. He needs to run again, especially as the Party now knows it can penetrate the City of Toronto if it puts its resources behind a strong candidate.

My point in describing my activities is that I talked to many voters on my month-long travels. I was surprised how many people wanted things from the government and how few asked what they could do to help the country or even their Party. It reminded me how sick we really are and how far we seem to have drifted from concept of duty and service in the defense of our freedoms. It reminded me too of the USA’s assassinated former President John F. Kennedy’s call to his countrymen when he challenged them by saying;

“Ask not what your Country can do for You but what You can do
for your Country.”

For those of us that were delighted with the outcome of the election, we wish Prime Minister Harper all good speed in shaping Canada in the way true conservatives want to see it evolve. Not to add a sour note but perhaps now the Province of Quebec will not be allowed to be the distorting factor it has been in the past in regard to the linguistic and economic largess previously directed towards the everlasting “wants” and demands of that failing society. For that result we will have to wait and see.

For all of you who have asked about the continuation of my ancient war story A Day in April 1945 – North to Groningen, the second part is now on line at Canada Free press: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/36153 or on my blog at: http://www.blancosblog.com

The Best of health and good luck to everyone! Dick

Unionists offered to staff new NDP MP offices

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Site Editor

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The Globe and Mail – May 10, 2011
NDP being offered the cream of Canada’s unions to fill huge hiring needs
By Bill Curry

Canada’s unions are offering their best and brightest for the large number of jobs the NDP must fill as soon as possible. The huge growth of the NDP caucus means close to 300 positions are now open. Given that many of the MPs will be rookies themselves, hiring quality staff becomes even more important. On average, an MP will have about two full-time staff on Parliament Hill and another two in the riding office. But the NDP is also in line for a larger central staffing budget for research and communications in the OLO – Opposition Leader’s Office.

Unlike other parties that allow MPs to hire and fire staff largely at will, NDP staffers are unionized, meaning jobs must first be offered internally and decisions can be challenged. On its face, that suggests added hurdles for a party that is under the gun to get ready for the new session. But given the sheer volume of openings, New Democrats insist the union rules aren’t likely to cause delay.

Jack Layton will make his first major speech as Opposition Leader on Wednesday when he addresses a meeting of the Canadian Labour Congress in Vancouver.

The NDP staff operate under Local 232 of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. Dave Coles, the CEP president, said he and other union leaders agreed Monday in Vancouver at the CLC conference to identify strong staff members to offer the NDP. “We want the party to succeed. It’s important to us. We’ve got a Harper majority. We want Jack to have the best there is,” Mr. Coles said in an interview.

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The real surge was Harper’s

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Site Editor

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National Post – May 4, 2011
The real surge was Harper’s
By Lorne Gunter

Outside Quebec, there was no NDP surge. Yes, the NDP gained 65 seats Monday night over their 2008 total, but 57 of those gains were in one province -Quebec. That means in the entire rest of the country, the NDP gained just eight extra seats. That’s better than losing eight, but it’s hardly a tsunami.

In B.C., which is accustomed to having NDP provincial governments and sizeable NDP caucuses at the federal level, the New Democrats went from nine seats in 2008 to 12 on Monday. In a province where voting for social democrats is nothing new – where there is no stigma to overcome in convincing voters to go “orange” -picking up just three new seats (and all of them from a collapsing Liberal party) is hardly a monumental feat.

In Ontario, the NDP went from 17 seats to 22. Again, that’s nice, but it is hardly game-changing. Five additional seats in a province with 106 isn’t really all that remarkable, especially since – again – all five were wrested from the failing Liberals. The Tories, by comparison, won 22 additional Ontario ridings – more than four times as many as the New Democrats.

True, the NDP won one new seat in each of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, both at the expense of the Liberals, but they lost a pair to the Tories in Manitoba. And their net twoseat gain in Atlantic Canada was surpassed by the Tories’ four-seat pickup. Why, then, no talk of a Tory surge?

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Quebec socialists battle with despair

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Site Editor

Former? communist as NDP candidate defeats Cabinet Minister Lawrence Cannon. That was in the Pontiac riding of Quebec. Mathieu Ravignat is also a karate instructor and martial arts enthusiast.

Extremist Maude Barlow is a little nervous about the Conservative majority government.

Quebec socialists battle with despair.

May 4, 2011
Victory of ‘Vegas’ NDP candidate challenged in Qbc amid talk of irregularities
The Canadian Press

LOUISEVILLE, Que. – The election results are being challenged in a Quebec riding won by an out-of-town NDPer who never visited during the campaign, who vacationed in Las Vegas instead, and who doesn’t speak French.

The NDP’s opponents are alleging there were other irregularities in the Berthier-Maskinonge riding. The ousted Bloc Quebecois candidate is making the claim, as are the local Liberal and Conservative candidates. They are speaking out after an area resident said he and his wife’s signatures were added — without their knowledge — to Ruth Ellen Brosseau’s nomination papers. Rene Young says he was surprised to see a signature that looked like his on the list of names supporting Brosseau. He says his wife’s name was misspelled. He says he’s never been interested in politics and doesn’t know Brosseau, other than through media reports.

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Jack Layton’s communist agenda

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Site Editor

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National Post – April 29, 2011
Jack Layton’s hidden agenda
By Terence Corcoran

With the NDP’s public election platform already packed with more than 200 extreme, unworkable, radical and mostly undesirable promises, it might surprise some to learn that Jack Layton’s current power trip packs at lot more baggage under the floorboards.

How much more can there be? They’ve got plans for what amounts to a 10¢-a-litre cap-and-trade tax on gasoline, doubled pension plan contributions, corporate tax increases, plus a long list of plans and schemes to newly regulate pharmaceuticals, banking, oil, food, telecom, railways and many other industries. As for monetary policy, not mentioned in the platform but recently the subject of comment, Mr. Layton says that he wants to maintain an “arm’s length” relationship with the Bank of Canada, although he apparently at the same time intends to jawbone the bank over interest rates and the value of the dollar.

This is all bad enough, but now let’s have a rummage through the baggage rack and under the floorboards. We’re looking for plans Mr. Layton didn’t mention in the platform, long-standing NDP agenda items, ideological positions they don’t talk much about but which underlie everything the party does. Does the NDP have any “hidden agendas”?

The CBC’s Leslie MacKinnon recently reported on the NDP’s official constitution, a 2003 document that specifies why the NDP exists. It turns out the NDP constitution is itself a hidden agenda.

First, here’s a core statement from the preamble outlining the “principles of democratic socialism” that guide the party:

That the production and distribution of goods and services shall be directed to meeting the social and individual needs of people within a sustainable environment and economy and not to the making of profit;

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Orange Crush Becomes NDP Crushed: David Krayden

Reflections on the election by patriot Richard Field

Unionists offered to staff new NDP MP offices

The real surge was Harper’s

Quebec socialists battle with despair

Jack Layton’s communist agenda