Posted on 12/02/2005 1:03:49 PM PST by RWR8189
Amen, brother.
I believe you speak for all Canadian FReepers..
I think so too.
Now we wait to see if he means what he said.
Don't forget Canada's version of class war by proxy, two-tier health care. The Ontarian ethic is that no one should get too far ahead. Robin Hood economices is seen as a "social leveller" that defines Canada as opposed to those "Uncultured American Brutes"
>To be honest I waffle myself between Canadian loathing and >glimmers of hope for my countrymen. That's why I am torn >about giving another red cent to the CPC party. Should I >waste my money to try to sway a bunch of brain dead Canadians >who don't deserve what hopes and dreams the Conservatives are >offering them? Can you really reason with sheeple who have >been brainwashed by universal socialism since day 1?
I myself will move out of Canada, to the US (I'm a citizen) or Australia if the Conservative don't get at least a working minority. I'm voting with my feet. Oony thing that would bring me back is if the Albertan Seperatist Movement started picking up steam.
>rant traced Red Toryism to the beginning of Canadian history. >The collective nation building policies of Sir John A. >Macdonald are seen as the foundation of the Red Tory >tradition."
>They don't like free markets in fact, and love the welfare >state.
Hell, you can't even buy a beer at a normal store in Ontario. Government patronage monopolies only since of course storekeepers are too irresponsibe for that.
Disraeli is probably the most influential historical figure in Ontario provincial and federal politics, ever.
The Progressive Conservatives after all are direct decendants of Disraeli's Conservatives.
This is one of the pelicularities of Canada. In the next most leftist Anglosphere country, New Zealand, only the far left Green Party calls for Canadian-style healthcare system.
Social responsibilty is a phrase you hear a lot in Canada. Basically it means justification for the nanny state. The nanny state and its social safety net live with the root assumption that people are too irresponsible to handle their own affairs.
Ugh...a quick overview of that website reinforces nanny thinking IMO.
My point was merely that it's also a term quite common within Catholic moral teachings.
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