Monday, May 11, 2009
50 year Old Cartoon is Prophetic...and More Relevant Than Ever.
We need to get back to the point where, no matter your station in life is, get back to the idea that we all benefit when nobody goes running to government for solutions.
the best solution, and it is fsr from perfect (perfection doesn't exist this side of eternity) is a goverment which is limited to nothing more than protecting its citizens from aggression against their lives livelihoods and property by means of objective laws against force and fraud, and the means to enforce those laws, and to protect the land and its citizens from outside threats.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Irony of ironies: Russia celebrates 1945 Victory over Fascism
I am saddened by what has become of Russia since the day Yeltsin left office. I saw Putin for what he was from day one. A tyrant, and a ruthless one at that. Unless one is prepared to do absolutely anything, one cannot rise to the top of a one party system, especially in a country with such a long history of one party rule, and where virtually everybody of age to be anywhere in its administration is a graduate of the KGB or Kommsommol.
Today's Russia is nothing more than a fascist version of the old Soviet Union. Fascism being that the means of prodution are held in private hands, but those "private hands" dare not even go to the loo without Moscow's knowledge or permission.
Thus I find it the ultimate irony that this parade was celebrating the defeat of fascism!
My study of Russian history tells me that Putin is out to realize the dream that all Russian leaders have had since Russia first coalesced as a viable state: Obtaining dominion from the Pacific to the atlantic, and from the Arctic to the Indian. what has eluded them is a warm water coean port in the south. Thus it is not for nothing that they are courting Iran nd encouraging a conflict in the middle east that could result in the destruction or Iran... after all, Bandar Abbas would be a wonderful spot for a port and naval base, and imagine thepower if they could control the Shatt-al-Arab!
It is indeed a perfect storm that is brewing, as Israel and Iran head for conflict (which will result in the destruction of Iran) and a pathetically weak American President who has indiczted that he is ready to sell out Poland and eastern Europe as Chamberlain did in 1939.
Watch Ukraine: the discord that has resulted in the fall of the government there was not accidental...Wacth for a pro-Russian puppet government to win elections later this year...After all, ho long will rissia tolerate having to lease Sebastopol? (a sorry second best to a warm water port on the Indian Ocean).
And finally watch for Russia to test the waters by smahing Georgia militarily later this year. It would give them a great jump-off point to send troops into Iran to "restore order" once Israel bombs them.
Those tanks will roll sooner than one thinks.
Friday, May 1, 2009
To whom it may concern...
Nobody said it was going to be easy and nobody said was going to be pretty and the fight is long and difficult and we must endure and prevail because our cause is good and just and puts love and truth above everything, God above everything and everyone.
Protection of life, family and the human person fundamental freedoms are the most important tasks any government has if not the only ones. This is achieved by laws that made us equal before God and that are in accordance with His commandments. Therefore laws must be simple and reachable to everyone.
For sometime now, I am devoted to eradicate income taxes and while I am being called a dreamer of foolish fantasies that it will not happen because politicians and the establishment are too compromised and committed that the culture of taxation is impossible to change.
For good or bad, given the experience the whole world is living today as a consequence of the election of Barrack Hussein Obama as president of the United States, a politician raised mysteriously with the idea of destroying life by the killing of the unborn and with a very close compromise to the sodomite culture, the two main enemies of civilization.
However fooled the people might be about this person’s intention or driving force, the factor that got him elected by the people is the thirst for change, because it is the current establishment what needs to be changed and so it is recognized. Change is the word that sold and regardless how it is this change used, it is the clamor of the people. In the United States, that clamor has been sold as a reaction against what the media and the new government wants to describe as capitalism.
Here in Canada, we too had a dream for change and our time came much earlier that that of our neighbors to the south. It came on January 23rd, 2006, when we managed to put together what we called a ‘Conservative’ party to get rid of what collectivism had built, or rather to restore what had been destroyed, through many years of a combined set of laws intrusive, invasive and oppressive dressed as liberal or progressive, institutionalizing corruption as the alternative for survival, with their very own set of rules which promoted abortion of pregnancy as a representation of freedom of choice amongst women and the destruction of family and the mockery of marriage as a fallacious same-sex or whatever it derives into, engagement that is nothing but state protected sodomy and its ramifications.
Unfortunately our hopes were soon thrown away and our newly elected lords decided that it was easier and safer to go with the establishment instead of to do the job they were elected for and so change has been put aside or relegated to a process that is supposed to take centuries to reach or never while the enemies of truth and love, keep advancing and are now about to regain full power.
Our hopes could have used the minority to express the values needed to be conveyed to the people, instead, our government chose to play exactly by the same relativism as its predecessors and institute the destruction of life as something meaningless and unimportant while thousands upon thousands of souls are daily being sacrificed to the selfishness of materialism and life styles.
The people is being told by a media very committed to the status quo and therefore to collectivism and the praising of elites but not necessarily the recognition of the truth and certainly not of God; that what matters is just the economy and that morality and principles and good or evil are only relative to the wishes of the individual and so by destroying the individuality, identity and dignity of the people. The economy can be served better.
But we are seeing through the present worldwide financial crisis what a ‘good economy’ does in relative terms of matters of common good and social justice.
When the economy is focused not taking into consideration but what is there for ‘me’ because collectivism gives ‘me’ more taking from others without any significant effort from my side, easily through fast credit, the only economy that goes well is that one of the selfish or of the one that only cares about his/her own material satisfaction as the only goals of power, control and pleasure are satisfied and their egos keep being inflated and the ‘me’, ‘I’, mine, keeps flourishing.
These are failures of that collectivism that fosters that type of mentality and that kind of culture. Collectivism needs to preserve the relativism behind the freedom of choice or the life styles as newly found human rights, because its survival is supported by the fantasies of that relativism.
To try arguing that it is up to elites to decide what is good and what is bad, removing God from the idea by ignoring the truth and love that only God can give us, because the elites can do what God does is poor paganism and regressive or more clearly uncivilized. It transports us to some cave in the middle of the ice age and the elite induce us to ask a rock, a star, or some animal for the weather to get or feel better.
To try to present the current crisis as a failure of the market cannot make any sense because the market is nothing but a process of supply and demand and nothing else or someone needing something wanting to buy that something looking for the best deal to do so.
What the current crisis is not either a consequence of lack of regulation but rather of excessive intervention because it is greed of elites, be this in government or in corporations that wanting to have it all, they have created a relative world where the economy has been obstructed from following its course.
The solutions presented are not solutions but opportunistic additions to that greed, because governments are seeing it as the chance to grab more control while corporations mostly with friends in government, have managed to transfer enormous amounts of capital from the people to their pockets.
The scandal is not on assigning or giving bonuses, but on the charade that has been mounted in order to clean up the people from their hard earned cash, because the trillions or billions given to the corporations for their survival do impact the people altering the laws of the market in favor of politics.
Collectivistic societies tend to display their plans ahead, they always have five year plans and ten year plans, because they cannot show anything for today, because today serves only for their own profit and so they keep asking for sacrifice form the people today, because in five or ten years their ‘plans’ they will manage to blame everything under the sun for the disasters they have created and will come up with new five or ten year plans to ‘correct’ the problems created by someone else. This has been seen in the Soviet Union while the underground corruption kept the needs of the people ‘satisfied’ but very much inflated prices. The Russian mafia was not born immediately after the demise of the Soviets but had been working since its creation in the early days, only to surface when the curtain was removed.
Income taxes is the mechanism by which the people is kept silent and politically idling, neutralized with their mortgages, credit cards, loans and so on. The risk has become to high to get involved and so the elites manipulate our dreams to the level of allowing the killing of our future, symbolically and effectively by the murder of the unborn. There is no surprise in the willing of governments, the United States in a great scale and Canada, even if unnecessarily in a much lesser scale, to give billions upon billions to creditors, under the excuse of money being needed for businesses to continue operating.
But cash flow is what businesses operate on and moreover, is what people need to survive and clearly, not a year ago when gas prices where projected to become astronomical nor today when cash is so scarce to keep business with clientele at all; any government has presented any plan to reduce let alone eliminate income taxes thereby providing businesses and consumers with the necessary cash flow to minimize the impact of the problem as well as to save jobs, which the politicians keep crying too loud to wanting to create.
Jobs however, are eliminated in virtue of income taxes because of this lack of cash as well as because of the increase risk it represents to businesses and also because of the increased cost of employment.
Why are income taxes the issue?
Because is money taken, confiscated, up front restricting families and individuals form effectively moving the economy
Surely there is credit, but if credit is to help providing that needed cash flow, then credit is nothing but another taxation level added to the many other mechanisms in the name of ‘good economies’ are out there, going from, at least in Canada, 32% on the price of Gas plus GST, PST or HST, plus many other taxes paid several times over one on top of the other milking the consumer making him/her lives very challenging. The volatility of the economy makes very difficult to keep with the discipline to maintain credit.
Of course, consumers or more clearly, the people is guilty in the eyes of the elites, because for starters, we the people have children and children cost money and if cannot afford to live individually how come we are going to afford ‘children’, so the right to chose to kill them is invented and institutionalized as the ‘solution’ to domestic finances, with elders following shortly after.
Of course this is not the only driven force behind abortion of pregnancy, because there is also the sedative elites need to provide us through their own idea of freedom, which for them is to do anything you want without consequences and so, if women want to engage in whatever type of relationship there is, whenever and however, it is not their fault if the sperm hits the egg because never mind if God meant it that way, they did not and so , they have the choice to kill and not even have bad dreams about it.
Similarly with sodomy or adultery, is just something these people want to do and so it is not their fault for the diseases that come as a consequence of their life styles, the elites, the rest of the people with the confiscated cash taken form them by their governments, are to put aside any attention to other illness and fund their life styles to the end.
Income taxes is only the beginning, but something very much in line with giving back to the people the ability not only to think but to choose on their own what is best for their families and future, having the children they want because it is God’s will and not just some ‘problem’ in their lives and sin cannot ever be rewarded and so, if a capricious life style implies engaging into something that is dangerous for your health, as well as sinful, why should governments must use our money for that? Interesting to notice that smoking is considered a sin by these elites and is not banned because of the money it brings but otherwise, they keep crying that is bad for everyone’s health.
Income taxation must be stopped and the sooner the better and that should be the start of the real change needed to free the people giving us back or liberties and the responsibility that comes with them.
Truth is absolute freedom is relative because it comes with responsibility
Protection of life, family and the human person fundamental freedoms are the most important tasks any government has if not the only ones. This is achieved by laws that made us equal before God and that are in accordance with His commandments. Therefore laws must be simple and reachable to everyone.
For sometime now, I am devoted to eradicate income taxes and while I am being called a dreamer of foolish fantasies that it will not happen because politicians and the establishment are too compromised and committed that the culture of taxation is impossible to change.
For good or bad, given the experience the whole world is living today as a consequence of the election of Barrack Hussein Obama as president of the United States, a politician raised mysteriously with the idea of destroying life by the killing of the unborn and with a very close compromise to the sodomite culture, the two main enemies of civilization.
However fooled the people might be about this person’s intention or driving force, the factor that got him elected by the people is the thirst for change, because it is the current establishment what needs to be changed and so it is recognized. Change is the word that sold and regardless how it is this change used, it is the clamor of the people. In the United States, that clamor has been sold as a reaction against what the media and the new government wants to describe as capitalism.
Here in Canada, we too had a dream for change and our time came much earlier that that of our neighbors to the south. It came on January 23rd, 2006, when we managed to put together what we called a ‘Conservative’ party to get rid of what collectivism had built, or rather to restore what had been destroyed, through many years of a combined set of laws intrusive, invasive and oppressive dressed as liberal or progressive, institutionalizing corruption as the alternative for survival, with their very own set of rules which promoted abortion of pregnancy as a representation of freedom of choice amongst women and the destruction of family and the mockery of marriage as a fallacious same-sex or whatever it derives into, engagement that is nothing but state protected sodomy and its ramifications.
Unfortunately our hopes were soon thrown away and our newly elected lords decided that it was easier and safer to go with the establishment instead of to do the job they were elected for and so change has been put aside or relegated to a process that is supposed to take centuries to reach or never while the enemies of truth and love, keep advancing and are now about to regain full power.
Our hopes could have used the minority to express the values needed to be conveyed to the people, instead, our government chose to play exactly by the same relativism as its predecessors and institute the destruction of life as something meaningless and unimportant while thousands upon thousands of souls are daily being sacrificed to the selfishness of materialism and life styles.
The people is being told by a media very committed to the status quo and therefore to collectivism and the praising of elites but not necessarily the recognition of the truth and certainly not of God; that what matters is just the economy and that morality and principles and good or evil are only relative to the wishes of the individual and so by destroying the individuality, identity and dignity of the people. The economy can be served better.
But we are seeing through the present worldwide financial crisis what a ‘good economy’ does in relative terms of matters of common good and social justice.
When the economy is focused not taking into consideration but what is there for ‘me’ because collectivism gives ‘me’ more taking from others without any significant effort from my side, easily through fast credit, the only economy that goes well is that one of the selfish or of the one that only cares about his/her own material satisfaction as the only goals of power, control and pleasure are satisfied and their egos keep being inflated and the ‘me’, ‘I’, mine, keeps flourishing.
These are failures of that collectivism that fosters that type of mentality and that kind of culture. Collectivism needs to preserve the relativism behind the freedom of choice or the life styles as newly found human rights, because its survival is supported by the fantasies of that relativism.
To try arguing that it is up to elites to decide what is good and what is bad, removing God from the idea by ignoring the truth and love that only God can give us, because the elites can do what God does is poor paganism and regressive or more clearly uncivilized. It transports us to some cave in the middle of the ice age and the elite induce us to ask a rock, a star, or some animal for the weather to get or feel better.
To try to present the current crisis as a failure of the market cannot make any sense because the market is nothing but a process of supply and demand and nothing else or someone needing something wanting to buy that something looking for the best deal to do so.
What the current crisis is not either a consequence of lack of regulation but rather of excessive intervention because it is greed of elites, be this in government or in corporations that wanting to have it all, they have created a relative world where the economy has been obstructed from following its course.
The solutions presented are not solutions but opportunistic additions to that greed, because governments are seeing it as the chance to grab more control while corporations mostly with friends in government, have managed to transfer enormous amounts of capital from the people to their pockets.
The scandal is not on assigning or giving bonuses, but on the charade that has been mounted in order to clean up the people from their hard earned cash, because the trillions or billions given to the corporations for their survival do impact the people altering the laws of the market in favor of politics.
Collectivistic societies tend to display their plans ahead, they always have five year plans and ten year plans, because they cannot show anything for today, because today serves only for their own profit and so they keep asking for sacrifice form the people today, because in five or ten years their ‘plans’ they will manage to blame everything under the sun for the disasters they have created and will come up with new five or ten year plans to ‘correct’ the problems created by someone else. This has been seen in the Soviet Union while the underground corruption kept the needs of the people ‘satisfied’ but very much inflated prices. The Russian mafia was not born immediately after the demise of the Soviets but had been working since its creation in the early days, only to surface when the curtain was removed.
Income taxes is the mechanism by which the people is kept silent and politically idling, neutralized with their mortgages, credit cards, loans and so on. The risk has become to high to get involved and so the elites manipulate our dreams to the level of allowing the killing of our future, symbolically and effectively by the murder of the unborn. There is no surprise in the willing of governments, the United States in a great scale and Canada, even if unnecessarily in a much lesser scale, to give billions upon billions to creditors, under the excuse of money being needed for businesses to continue operating.
But cash flow is what businesses operate on and moreover, is what people need to survive and clearly, not a year ago when gas prices where projected to become astronomical nor today when cash is so scarce to keep business with clientele at all; any government has presented any plan to reduce let alone eliminate income taxes thereby providing businesses and consumers with the necessary cash flow to minimize the impact of the problem as well as to save jobs, which the politicians keep crying too loud to wanting to create.
Jobs however, are eliminated in virtue of income taxes because of this lack of cash as well as because of the increase risk it represents to businesses and also because of the increased cost of employment.
Why are income taxes the issue?
Because is money taken, confiscated, up front restricting families and individuals form effectively moving the economy
Surely there is credit, but if credit is to help providing that needed cash flow, then credit is nothing but another taxation level added to the many other mechanisms in the name of ‘good economies’ are out there, going from, at least in Canada, 32% on the price of Gas plus GST, PST or HST, plus many other taxes paid several times over one on top of the other milking the consumer making him/her lives very challenging. The volatility of the economy makes very difficult to keep with the discipline to maintain credit.
Of course, consumers or more clearly, the people is guilty in the eyes of the elites, because for starters, we the people have children and children cost money and if cannot afford to live individually how come we are going to afford ‘children’, so the right to chose to kill them is invented and institutionalized as the ‘solution’ to domestic finances, with elders following shortly after.
Of course this is not the only driven force behind abortion of pregnancy, because there is also the sedative elites need to provide us through their own idea of freedom, which for them is to do anything you want without consequences and so, if women want to engage in whatever type of relationship there is, whenever and however, it is not their fault if the sperm hits the egg because never mind if God meant it that way, they did not and so , they have the choice to kill and not even have bad dreams about it.
Similarly with sodomy or adultery, is just something these people want to do and so it is not their fault for the diseases that come as a consequence of their life styles, the elites, the rest of the people with the confiscated cash taken form them by their governments, are to put aside any attention to other illness and fund their life styles to the end.
Income taxes is only the beginning, but something very much in line with giving back to the people the ability not only to think but to choose on their own what is best for their families and future, having the children they want because it is God’s will and not just some ‘problem’ in their lives and sin cannot ever be rewarded and so, if a capricious life style implies engaging into something that is dangerous for your health, as well as sinful, why should governments must use our money for that? Interesting to notice that smoking is considered a sin by these elites and is not banned because of the money it brings but otherwise, they keep crying that is bad for everyone’s health.
Income taxation must be stopped and the sooner the better and that should be the start of the real change needed to free the people giving us back or liberties and the responsibility that comes with them.
Truth is absolute freedom is relative because it comes with responsibility
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
To all Members of government
Income tax is a shameful modern way of slavery and it needs to be discontinued on behalf of taxation that is fair and that works for the common good and social justice.
The Government is exceeding by far its functions by maintaining too many programs which do not belong to the duties of government. Instead of providing protection to life and working on principles, is forcing everyone to contribute to the destruction of life and family, the individual, his/her identity and dignity.
Canadian people are entrapped into the web of the taxation code and are being taxed over and over again.
Beyond the 20 to 50 percent systematically confiscated under the illusion of job creation and permanent employment in the most intrusive, invasive and oppressive mechanism there is; many other taxes force Canadians to depend on credit to make the ends meet.
Gas is taxed 32%, which means that this amount is added to the load because every single good or service gets charged with fuel taxes and many times over.
GST and PST or HST, add another 13% in Ontario to just about every business transaction.
That’s not all. There are yet the taxes businesses are charged and which are taxes to the people because businesses do pass those charges to the consumer.
This spiral needs to be stopped and the first point is Income Taxation because of the cost added to government because its administration plus the cost on families and individuals being prevented from prospering in freedom.
On a household where there is a husband and a wife, both are force to join the workforce because one of those salaries entirely will go to pay for income taxes and still the other will have to keep paying more and more.
The consequence this is not just a political game but abusive politics like pretending that more children or the elder are in fact expensive and need to be eliminated or avoided in order to have a family.
The cost of goods and services is over inflated because of taxes.
I implore you to look into this because the people of Canada are tired and even if today appears to be peaceful and ‘tolerant’, the day is approaching where the reaction to this abuse will be felt.
I hope you take the time to think about it and act promptly.
Thanks
The Government is exceeding by far its functions by maintaining too many programs which do not belong to the duties of government. Instead of providing protection to life and working on principles, is forcing everyone to contribute to the destruction of life and family, the individual, his/her identity and dignity.
Canadian people are entrapped into the web of the taxation code and are being taxed over and over again.
Beyond the 20 to 50 percent systematically confiscated under the illusion of job creation and permanent employment in the most intrusive, invasive and oppressive mechanism there is; many other taxes force Canadians to depend on credit to make the ends meet.
Gas is taxed 32%, which means that this amount is added to the load because every single good or service gets charged with fuel taxes and many times over.
GST and PST or HST, add another 13% in Ontario to just about every business transaction.
That’s not all. There are yet the taxes businesses are charged and which are taxes to the people because businesses do pass those charges to the consumer.
This spiral needs to be stopped and the first point is Income Taxation because of the cost added to government because its administration plus the cost on families and individuals being prevented from prospering in freedom.
On a household where there is a husband and a wife, both are force to join the workforce because one of those salaries entirely will go to pay for income taxes and still the other will have to keep paying more and more.
The consequence this is not just a political game but abusive politics like pretending that more children or the elder are in fact expensive and need to be eliminated or avoided in order to have a family.
The cost of goods and services is over inflated because of taxes.
I implore you to look into this because the people of Canada are tired and even if today appears to be peaceful and ‘tolerant’, the day is approaching where the reaction to this abuse will be felt.
I hope you take the time to think about it and act promptly.
Thanks
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Canadian Navy
In light of the recent European patrols against Somali pirates. I decided to post on the importance of the Canadian navy. Canada is the country with the longest coastline in the world. That coastline needs to be protected by a capable navy. Many people think that no one is going to attack Canada soon and that Canada is protected by the United States. But guess what. The United States is declining. The US Navy isn't what it used to be, and certainly not what the Royal Navy used to be. Canada needs to either build its own effective navy, find a protector or endure the terrors that come with not having a capable navy.
So here is my proposal: the Commonwealth Realms (the countries sharing our Queen as head of state) should work together to build a large battle fleet capable of defending us from attack, protecting our interests abroad and, most importantly, maintaining relative 'world peace'. This would take many years and cost billions of dollars but, nevertheless, needs to be done.
First, the we need to enlarge their respective navies. Then we must establish a large permanent battle fleet with ships and personnel from the navies of each realm (similar the British Pacific Fleet of World War II, but permanent). Preferably, we should return to a two- (or, if possible, three) power standard, that is, the battle fleet should be bigger than the next two (or three) largest navies in the world combined. Also, this is a great time to begin, as it would provide jobs.
So here is my proposal: the Commonwealth Realms (the countries sharing our Queen as head of state) should work together to build a large battle fleet capable of defending us from attack, protecting our interests abroad and, most importantly, maintaining relative 'world peace'. This would take many years and cost billions of dollars but, nevertheless, needs to be done.
First, the we need to enlarge their respective navies. Then we must establish a large permanent battle fleet with ships and personnel from the navies of each realm (similar the British Pacific Fleet of World War II, but permanent). Preferably, we should return to a two- (or, if possible, three) power standard, that is, the battle fleet should be bigger than the next two (or three) largest navies in the world combined. Also, this is a great time to begin, as it would provide jobs.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Keep An Open Mind
Keeping an open mind is essentially what this blog is all about. In all political discussions, or reading something about politics, such as this blog, it is necessary to keep an open mind. Trust me; keeping an open mind will only be a good thing.
When one finds oneself in a political conversation or is reading an article or book related to politics, keeping an open mind can be beneficial, while not can be disastrous. When discussing politics, if you do not keep an open mind, you are likely to offend or be offended by the person you are talking to. Also, if you do not keep an open mind, your 'opponent' is less likely to keep one.This will lead to tension and unproductivity.
When reading an article about politics, if you do not keep an open mind, you will not get anything out of the article. Whereas, if you do, and still disagree, you will be more acquainted with the arguments of your adversary and in a be in a better position to counter-argue them. On the other hand, if you cannot counter-argue them, accept them. Being stubborn can only make you look bad.
When one finds oneself in a political conversation or is reading an article or book related to politics, keeping an open mind can be beneficial, while not can be disastrous. When discussing politics, if you do not keep an open mind, you are likely to offend or be offended by the person you are talking to. Also, if you do not keep an open mind, your 'opponent' is less likely to keep one.This will lead to tension and unproductivity.
When reading an article about politics, if you do not keep an open mind, you will not get anything out of the article. Whereas, if you do, and still disagree, you will be more acquainted with the arguments of your adversary and in a be in a better position to counter-argue them. On the other hand, if you cannot counter-argue them, accept them. Being stubborn can only make you look bad.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Dion Thrown Under the Bus:Iggy in?
CBC News is reporting that Liberal leader Stephane Dion has been thrown under the bus, and will be gone by Wednesday, and replaced by Michael Ignatieff AS LEADER (not interim) at that time. Apparently the Liberal brain trust wants to settle the question of leadership as quickly as possible.
But will it be resolved? First, the Libs try to take the government without giving Canadians a say, and now they hare installing a leader about whom many Liberals have grave reservations, if one considers the fact that he couldn't crack 30% on the first ballot last time,and ended up losing to someone of the stature of Dion....
But that's typical of this man's history.
In November 2005 he was rushed into the country with the title of heir apparent before his plane touched the tarmac at Pearson.
He, or perhaps more accurately, the eminence grise behind him pushed out a popular Liberal incumbemt (Jean Augustine) so he could be elected in the safe riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore in Toronto. He has won teh seat twice, but both times by a much narower margin than Mrs. Augustine.
Now, if these reports are accurate he will be acceding to the position of leader ithout consulting the membershop at large.
Given Ignatieff's demonstration of disrespect to the procss of popular consultation, both among members of his own party who are being disenfranchised and the population in general, it begs the question: will he now try to take power without a mandate from the people, by taking over the coalition?
He might, since he too is tinted by the mating dance with the BQ. He's tied in with them, now. Montreal safe seats no longer safe. Anger in Toronto too... The west is lost....
And could it be, now that many rank and file members- disatisfied with the choices available and how they all hitched their wagons to the failed coalition power grab- are now looking to John Manley to try to lead them back to the centre, and electoral viability, that many of the left leaning elected remnants of the Liberal party in parliament and the Senate want to install Ignatieff to forestall this development?
If Mr Ignatieff does seize the Liberal leadership this week by these measures, which are correct and legal in the LPC constitution, though questionable in terms of fairness and openness, I still do not believe that all of a sudden Canadians will warm up to this coalition just because Mr. Dion no longer leads it. In fact they may resent even more the fact that there will be a Prime Minsiter whom nobody but his own caucus chose, and may anger many Liberals who oppose him. Mr Ignatieff, if he does take the leadership in this manner, would be very wise to quickly disassociate his party from the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois, and concentrate on providing good opposition, and rebuilding the party on its own merits so that it can contest an election in 18 months or so. Another attempt by the coalition to grab power without an election will result in complete electoral diaster for both the Liberals an NDP.
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