It has been a month since my last blog post. The reason is that I am trying to build a website to replace a proudly displayed http://www.robertgordon.ca page created by Oakes/Ripley of Vancouver. But alas all good things must end and Brian Ripley informed me his company was abandoning web management and suggested I try to build my own site. A month later with a great deal of help, guidance and advice from Brian I should have a less professional version of my site on line within the next hours or days depending on whether or not I can finally master domain management. Now on to today's political subject.
I was a Liberal party supporter since the 1950's when a friend got me involved in the election campaign of Sudbury's sitting member of parliament pharmacist Roger Mitchell. I don't remember Mitchell doing anything mind bending that would be remembered by voters. Since memory fails I don't believe Mitchell was a stalwart of Liberalism in the city. He probably served in the St. Laurent and maybe even the Pearson government. Mitchell's tenure was unlike a successor past Sudbury mayor Leo Landreville.The former mayor made such a splash in federal politics the Liberals appointed the longtime politician and judge to Canada's senate. But that is another story since the illustrious mayor, judge and political juggernaut was involved in controversy similar in some respects to the Adscam controversy that in effect seriously wounded the party driving it onto life support.
I am now one of the millions of Canadians looking for a political home for my center of right vote. According to long time Liberals still trying to resurrect the old Chretien, Turner, Martin part of the past the infighting is still raging in the hallowed halls of yesteryear where many of the former stalwarts lead by has been former NDP Ontario premier Bob Rae. To most Canadians reviving Liberal fortunes is probably akin to purchasing a winning lottery ticket. Fortune could shine on the party again but the chances are astronomically small.
So where does that leave the voters that are more than reluctant to endorse the ever more right leaning Harper Reform/Conservatives? It is doubtful those voters will consider the wildly optimistic NDP with their newly acquired Quebec power base. That would be like voting to establish a town site on an iceberg floating past Newfoundland towards the warm waters of the mid Atlantic ocean. It cannot survive. Maybe the solution will come from something like Alberta's Wildrose Party. A group of voters wanting change, (take note of the worldwide protests even in the US) will start a center party challenging the majority Conservative government that appears to have cracks emerging between its hard right and progressive wings. It is conceivable that such a movement would appeal to disenchanted slightly right of center Liberals and some of the more neutral left of center NDP electorate. My be it could be named the Rosy Trillium Party of Canadian Prairies. Maybe the RTCP party. Do you want to donate a buck?
I am now one of the millions of Canadians looking for a political home for my center of right vote. According to long time Liberals still trying to resurrect the old Chretien, Turner, Martin part of the past the infighting is still raging in the hallowed halls of yesteryear where many of the former stalwarts lead by has been former NDP Ontario premier Bob Rae. To most Canadians reviving Liberal fortunes is probably akin to purchasing a winning lottery ticket. Fortune could shine on the party again but the chances are astronomically small.
So where does that leave the voters that are more than reluctant to endorse the ever more right leaning Harper Reform/Conservatives? It is doubtful those voters will consider the wildly optimistic NDP with their newly acquired Quebec power base. That would be like voting to establish a town site on an iceberg floating past Newfoundland towards the warm waters of the mid Atlantic ocean. It cannot survive. Maybe the solution will come from something like Alberta's Wildrose Party. A group of voters wanting change, (take note of the worldwide protests even in the US) will start a center party challenging the majority Conservative government that appears to have cracks emerging between its hard right and progressive wings. It is conceivable that such a movement would appeal to disenchanted slightly right of center Liberals and some of the more neutral left of center NDP electorate. My be it could be named the Rosy Trillium Party of Canadian Prairies. Maybe the RTCP party. Do you want to donate a buck?
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