I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.
The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada, House of Commons Debates, July 1, 1960
Diefenbaker said this in the debates for the Canadian Bill of Rights. Since that time, something has gone terribly wrong. It will take a Conservative majority government to get us back on track.
It's election day. Go vote.
Showing posts with label Conservatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservatives. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Toronto hates Conservatives
I see this sign on Harbord Street every morning on my bike ride to work.
I actually had a coffee at the Linux Caffe once. But I guess you can afford to insult your potential customers when those voting Conservative accounted for only 9% of the vote in the last election.
Wireless Nomad might also want to reconsider its affiliation with the business. They use the location as home base for their ISP business.
I actually had a coffee at the Linux Caffe once. But I guess you can afford to insult your potential customers when those voting Conservative accounted for only 9% of the vote in the last election.
Wireless Nomad might also want to reconsider its affiliation with the business. They use the location as home base for their ISP business.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Blogging Tories' Ridings
Further to my previous post, here's a partial list of Conservative candidates and electoral districts as indicated by my readers. Members of the Blogging Tories live in several of the ridings. I'll update the list as I become aware of new entries. Please leave your info in the comments.
Manitoba
Kildonan-St. Paul: Joy Smith is up for re-election.
Quebec
Outremont: Dr Roy is supporting Lulzim Laloshi.
Ontario
Simcoe-Grey: Helena Guergis is running to retain her seat for the Conservatives.
Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington: Incumbent Scott Reid is running for the Conservatives.
Ottawa-Orléans: Royal Galipeau, the current Conservative MP is running again.
Parkdale-High Park: Nice Comfy Fur formerly lived in the riding and is supporting Jilian Saweczko.
St. Paul's: Nice Comfy Fur is supporting Heather Jewell.
Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry: Current CPC MP Guy Lauzon is standing for re-election.
York Centre: Matt at A Step to the Right is supporting Rochelle Wilner.
Manitoba
Kildonan-St. Paul: Joy Smith is up for re-election.
Quebec
Outremont: Dr Roy is supporting Lulzim Laloshi.
Ontario
Simcoe-Grey: Helena Guergis is running to retain her seat for the Conservatives.
Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington: Incumbent Scott Reid is running for the Conservatives.
Ottawa-Orléans: Royal Galipeau, the current Conservative MP is running again.
Parkdale-High Park: Nice Comfy Fur formerly lived in the riding and is supporting Jilian Saweczko.
St. Paul's: Nice Comfy Fur is supporting Heather Jewell.
Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry: Current CPC MP Guy Lauzon is standing for re-election.
York Centre: Matt at A Step to the Right is supporting Rochelle Wilner.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Copyright and voting Conservative
Politics is not like shopping for groceries where you can fill your cart with the policies you like and leave the ones you don’t like on the shelf. Like it or not, when you vote for a particular party, you get the whole bundle: the good policies with the bad.
That said, I can understand where Alec Saunders is coming from. A recent post on his blog explains why he will be voting against Stephen Harper when an election is called. I have also been critical of the Conservative’s copyright bill.
As it stands now, Bill C-61 is so egregiously bad I think they want it to fail. We can only hope it never moves forward.
Given the groundswell of opposition to the current bill, which includes virtually everything corporate media interests have asked for, I can’t imagine the CPC actually proceeding with it. It makes no sense to turn people into criminals simply for making a backup copy of their store-bought Disney DVD for their kids to use. Now that they have tried with this bill, they can legitimately say to the next U.S. administration that it just won’t fly.
As for Alec Saunders, if this one issue is of such paramount importance to him, I would suggest he weigh his options carefully before voting against the Conservatives. Does the bad he sees likely to come from Bill C-61 more than offset all the good that might come from other "conservative" policies which he would otherwise be inclined to support? And what about the damage that the many boneheaded policies supported by other parties could cause?
In the case of the Liberals, there is really little fundamental difference between the previous Liberal copyright bill and that of the Conservatives. So a vote for the Liberals wouldn’t likely get him any further ahead on his one burning issue. In the meantime, he would have to swallow a lot of bad Liberal policies (can you say Green Shift?) with which he may fundamentally disagree.
That leaves the NDP which, of course, can adopt any policy it wants because it knows it will never get in power. But if Alec is truly conservative minded, it is hard to imagine him going to this extreme. In so doing, he would be in common cause with the likes of Lester, one of his commenters who advocates we “vote against this NeoConservative pig.”
I recognize that there is a real risk that the Conservatives may revive Bill C-61 in a similar form if they get a majority in the coming election. It is this very possibility that acts to temper my enthusiasm and desire to help the Conservatives win the election. But as important as this issue is to me, I’m not about to vote NDP. All I can say to Alec is to vote wisely.
That said, I can understand where Alec Saunders is coming from. A recent post on his blog explains why he will be voting against Stephen Harper when an election is called. I have also been critical of the Conservative’s copyright bill.
As it stands now, Bill C-61 is so egregiously bad I think they want it to fail. We can only hope it never moves forward.
Given the groundswell of opposition to the current bill, which includes virtually everything corporate media interests have asked for, I can’t imagine the CPC actually proceeding with it. It makes no sense to turn people into criminals simply for making a backup copy of their store-bought Disney DVD for their kids to use. Now that they have tried with this bill, they can legitimately say to the next U.S. administration that it just won’t fly.
As for Alec Saunders, if this one issue is of such paramount importance to him, I would suggest he weigh his options carefully before voting against the Conservatives. Does the bad he sees likely to come from Bill C-61 more than offset all the good that might come from other "conservative" policies which he would otherwise be inclined to support? And what about the damage that the many boneheaded policies supported by other parties could cause?
In the case of the Liberals, there is really little fundamental difference between the previous Liberal copyright bill and that of the Conservatives. So a vote for the Liberals wouldn’t likely get him any further ahead on his one burning issue. In the meantime, he would have to swallow a lot of bad Liberal policies (can you say Green Shift?) with which he may fundamentally disagree.
That leaves the NDP which, of course, can adopt any policy it wants because it knows it will never get in power. But if Alec is truly conservative minded, it is hard to imagine him going to this extreme. In so doing, he would be in common cause with the likes of Lester, one of his commenters who advocates we “vote against this NeoConservative pig.”
I recognize that there is a real risk that the Conservatives may revive Bill C-61 in a similar form if they get a majority in the coming election. It is this very possibility that acts to temper my enthusiasm and desire to help the Conservatives win the election. But as important as this issue is to me, I’m not about to vote NDP. All I can say to Alec is to vote wisely.
Monday, March 10, 2008
In the service of the oil industry
The standard criticism of Conservative climate change policy is that Harper would never do anything that would hurt the Alberta oil industry. Hope this shuts them up:Oil sands face tough environmental rules
Mar 10, 2008 04:41 PM
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA–The federal government is laying out new rules that would force new oil-sands plants to capture and store carbon and would ban the building of dirty, coal-fired power plants.
The bans would be effective as of 2012.
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