Posted on 05/19/2005 7:16:24 AM PDT by fanfan
Canada's Liberal government should fall tonight because its members have become renegades in power.
They are politically corrupt and out of control.
They have no vision and no guiding principles.
All they believe in is clinging to power, by any means.
They have already hijacked our democracy once, by refusing to recognize a non-confidence vote they lost last week.
Indeed, Prime Minister Paul Martin only agreed to accept the verdict of tonight's vote after carefully plotting the "winning conditions" he believes will ensure his political survival.
In this, Martin and the Liberals are no better than the Quebec separatists they claim to despise. Separatists have twice been defeated in referendums voted on by the people of Quebec.
But, just like the Liberals, they too refused to acknowledge defeat and are now plotting the "winning conditions" for a third, successful and therefore -- for them -- "final" referendum.
To better ensure his own political survival tonight -- which, sadly, seems likely -- Martin threw away the fiscal prudence he built his reputation on as finance minister and cut a $4.6-billion budget deal to buy the NDP's support. Then he bought former Conservative MP Belinda Stronach with a cabinet post.
Last night, Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal accused the Liberals of trying to buy his support in tonight's non-confidence vote with a patronage job for himself or his wife, also a Tory MP.
The Grits denied the charge, saying Grewal approached them and was rejected. In any event, we've already seen the levels to which the Liberals are prepared to stoop to save their own hides.
As for all of Martin's brave talk about ending the "democratic deficit," Canadians now know that that's all it is -- talk.
Martin's only vision for fixing our health care crisis is to keep throwing money at it, which Canadians know isn't working.
The only thing Martin and the Liberals have proven adept at is changing the subject from their own dismal record.
Just a few weeks ago, the national public debate in this country was all about Liberal corruption in AdScam and whether it was time to bring this arrogant Liberal government down.
But for tonight's vote, Martin has managed to change the subject to whether Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is fuelling separatism by voting with the Bloc to defeat the Liberals!
Think about how absurd Martin's (and Stronach's) logic is.
This is a minority parliament. The only way the Liberals can ever be defeated is if the Bloc and the Conservatives combine forces to bring them down. What Martin is really saying is that even a Liberal minority government must never be defeated -- because any attempt to do so would be allying with separatists.
Please. We're a lot tougher on separatists, whom we consider traitors, than Paul Martin is; after all, he chose a co-founder of the Bloc as his transport minister and Quebec lieutenant.
But the only reason separatist sentiment is raging in Quebec today is due to outrage over Liberal corruption in AdScam.
And however much Martin tries to run away from the truth, it's Liberals who are to blame for that. Liberals without shame.
It's really nice along there.
Politically that area has a tendency for protest; the Conservatives are fairly strong but so are the NDP with the high First Nations and labour clout - and that means the Fiberals have just enough support to win those areas with under 40% of the vote. (They'll likely lose those seats)
What would be the eastern boundary? The Alberta-Saskatchewan border, the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border, the Manitoba-Ontario border, Lake Superior area or the Ontario-Quebec border with a ring around the GTA?
As far east as possible without including the Socialist areas. :-)
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