[A-List] Canadian elections

[tony black]

...Yes, I would say that about sums it up...In particular, Harper's timely 
'anti'-American statements are clearly a ploy to deflect criticism from his 
historical pro-American Imperium...I would go further to proffer that it's 
likely he had prior approval from Washington to even make them.

Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <mstainsby at resist.ca>
To: "The A-List" <a-list at lists.econ.utah.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [A-List] Canadian elections


> 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
> http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green
> In the contradiction lies the hope
>    --Bertholt Brecht.
>
>
>