Meaning of a Canadian Conservative election victory

Harper’s Conservative minority government wants to destroy opposition party funding while imposing rising gas and food prices by stimulating the dollar and selling off natural resources. They are committing to buy unaffordable fighter jets without competitive bids to appease America’s need for more firepower. Add right wing ideology disgruntling 65% of voting Canadians by decreasing corporate tax levels and continuing to fight a losing war in Afghanistan. With France, Ireland, Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt citizenry openly defying the police and army guns Canadians could face the same scenario to depose dictatorial edicts including possibly the right to object through media coverage and editorial commentary. The Supreme Court already influenced by partisan Conservative appointments recently struck down to some degree the right of the media to protect sources.

Clearly libelous attack ads against the integrity of the main opposition leader, supposedly only taking erroneous quotes out of context, are another worrisome happening changing protection of the masses from overt government power. Hopefully and upcoming Federal election will keep the Conservatives from assuming power and turning democratic Canada into a third world type dictatorship. It would even be an improvement if Harper fails to win his majority and the opposition parties formed the dreaded left coalition. Change is happening everywhere and change will come to Canada’s Federal political scene.

Canada is experiencing the same right wing ideology that Ontario experienced and suffered from after Mike Harris and the Conservatives decimated the province using many of the same ideological theories with the same destructive political gang led by Flaherty, Baird and others in the Harper cabinet control . The power of the vote unless compromised by the people seeking fully unopposed power can stop the onslaught and keep Canada from becoming the next nation with international media tracking crowds on the street opposing police and the military. If Canadians think the same scenario cannot happen here just recall the G20 fiasco last summer when Harper’s party implemented the jailing of 1000 citizens without cause (or charges) for demonstrating? Harper and his government proved beyond any doubt that ordering the police and military to control Canadians opposed to the party’s rule and right wing philosophy would happen.

When parliament opens on Monday January 24th the stage will be set. The Conservatives will again attempt to take power. Watch closely as the majority Conservatives try gain a majority. It could be the last election for a long time in Canada. Remember Harper used prorogation to retain power. He will do even more if given the opportunity to change Canada while exploiting our strengths as a nation.

Conservative or left coalition Canada?

I usually blog on my site at least every month with comments that I hope people read. I find the blog a great forum for getting my opinions read even if my readership is an unknown quantity. Writing community newspaper editorials and other opinion pieces for more than 20 years, having this forum is both healthy and satisfying. That said let’s make some pointed comments with respect to the political scene internationally, south of the border and here at home.

It seems most Canadians and Americans want to change the politics that gave both nations a standard of living surpassing all but the richest people in other nations. The discontent is not surprising when the fact that those making the laws and taxing the masses are more intent on retaining power and their own above normal financial positions rather than trying to improve society. Once exploiting of those in other nations begins, it does not take long for the people wanting more riches to begin exploiting their own people. North American leaders seem to be following a recipe for disaster making the rich richer at the expense of the middle class. Most have forgotten that you must give to take or those not getting a fair share will begin to look for a better government.

News reports following the unrest bubbling up all over the globe is worrying. Upheaval in Egypt, the Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Sudan, Morocco with bombings in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan to mention just a few of the world’s trouble spots makes the Apocalypse 2012 seem more possible. How many times even in the lifetime of people reading this blog has there been a prediction that the world is ending. Will humankind realize the end is here when and if it finally comes? Is the current rash of wars, terrorism and brutality of man for the sake of money or religion new? Alternatively, is the perchance for modern instant communication making it sound like the world is more violent than during other times of war and terrorism?

The world does seem to be in the throes of change with riots, suppression, poverty and lawlessness prevalent in many formerly stable countries. People basking in the luxury of affluence are ready to suppress the less fortunate in the same manner that happened throughout history. There will be more bloodshed and maybe even change in the way most people survive as the unrest heightens. That result is an ongoing fact of living on the planet. Man does not learn from experience. We increase our knowledge and struggle to overpower those living in squalor rather than working to learn how to share the new inventions and life experiences with the less fortunate. That sounds like a preacher or religious fantastic but today many learned people don’t even believe in religion. God possibly, but not religion after studying the way religion exploits the poor and often helpless for the benefit of those seeking riches. Those in power throughout history often t enforce an alien way of life of those not really wanting change.

Enough philosophy since only future history will reveal if humankind can change the way the world lives with nation pitted against nation hoping the future will unfold as it always has in the past.

In Canada, will Stephen Harper and the Canadian Conservative alliance finally gain control of one of the world’s most resource rich nations? Alternatively, will the coalition of left leaning parties unite under a single banner to chase the Harperites back into opposition? The answers will likely surface within the next few months as Canada goes to the polls again to elect another government for the third time in five years. Polls indicate another minority government might happen creating a coalition of parties to govern similar to what is happening almost elsewhere in the democratic world. Stay tuned to hear the political screaming that is simply a voice of the political animals wanting to remain or gain power. Harper can’t seem to win a majority, the antique Liberal party is in shambles and the NDP hasn’t a chance of governing. Isn’t that the recipe needed for a drastic change in Canadian politics?