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
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Macdonald Stainsby
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