[A-List] Canadian elections

[Macdonald Stainsby]

Interesting to me has been the difference in attention I have paid to 
this election, for the comrades who know the shake up in our lives here, 
it is self explanatory.

The election, strangely, was a relief to me simply because it was a 
minority government that the bourgeois/Zionist press had been try to 
self-prophecy into a majority. Minority governments in Canada almost 
never last very long and leave very little room for wiggling among the 
party of victory.

The Conservative government of Stephen Harper is, by all measures, the 
most reactionary one I can fathom for my lifetime and from my reading of 
history within this state. I have already posted "quotations from racist 
man Flanagan", a top aide in the Harper administration.

Harper is a leader who is pro-Iraq war, anti-Kyoto, anti-woman/abortion, 
anti-same sex marriage, for the dismantling of the health care system 
and much more. Yet, ALL of these planks are actually where Paul Martin 
was coming from as well; it has since been revealed that in the lead up 
to the invasion of Iraq Martin and his faction within the Liberal Party 
worked hard to force the Chretien leadership to support and join the 
war; Martin is leading the way in destruction of the earth's livability 
with CC emissions in particular through the destruction of many 
indigenous lands in the "northwest territories" [Denendeh] and "northern 
Alberta" building a natural gas pipeline and starting the oil sands 
projects at full bore and capacity, the dilapidated health care system 
became so weak under Paul Martin the finance minister over ten years ago.

What this will mean is likely a government that will go down in history 
as one of the most hated in Canada's history, for a reason quite simple 
and wholly anti-Machiavellian-- the population wants their government to 
look independent of the US, while being, as Martin's has, the most loyal 
American ally possible.

To try and assuage this, before even taking office Harper has started 
yapping about "Canadian" sovereignty in the far north, where the climate 
change dividend is about to open up a northwest passage above the 
continental Turtle Island shelf. This will reduce global shipping lanes 
by 7000 nautical miles, and the US/Alaska, Russia and Denmark/Kalaliit 
Nunnaat["Greenland"] all claim the passage as international waters, 
while Canada claims it as their own. Harper is pledging to put military 
capable ice-breakers in the region, as a show of gunboat diplomacy. 
He'll go this route while attacking the health system, slowly and not to 
be obvious, and go along with similar legislation regarding welfare, 
pensions, and all means of a social safety net.

With the exception of the Bloc and the Liberals, there is no one party 
that holds the balance of power in this minority government, so the 
schemes will be slow. My feeling is that since the Liberals will want to 
take down the government but only when they can gain from it, if Harper 
is smart, he'll do his program the most chance by going slowly and 
implementing things that have little chance of being opposed by huge 
numbers. Since even more openly than the genocidal Liberal Party his 
party hates Indians and Inuit, and since the basic white 
supremacy/racism of Canadians is so high, I fear strongly that his party 
will start by tearing up even more land and sovereignty among the mighty 
nations here, knowing how little opposition he will have for that and 
that he can throw the racist radicals in his party this completed bone.

And of course, with a family involved in the health system directly, and 
many retiring and coming of age, his attacks on both health and pensions 
is extremely frightening for many, if not on a social level, an 
individual one. This government will last at least as long as the last 
one, but I give them no more than two years. Basically, we have a 
Republican running a minority situation in a British-style parliament. 
He finished his acceptance speech extolling soldiers in Afghanistan and 
saying to the crowd "God Bless Canada". Dark[er] times ahead.

Macdonald

Sabri Oncu wrote:
> We have so many Canadians here. Would you be able to give us a summary of
> the election results with comments?
> 
> Sabri
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Macdonald Stainsby
http://independentmedia.ca/survivingcanada
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In the contradiction lies the hope
    --Bertholt Brecht.