Posted on 06/11/2004 12:26:08 PM PDT by rarebird
Three days ago, Anne Cools -- Canada's first black Senator and one of its few black parliamentarians -- switched from the Liberal Party to the newly merged Conservative Party. She endorsed Conservative Leader Stephen Harper for the tight June 28 election, saying he is the best person to bring change. A quote from her Toronto press conference:
"Ordinary Canadians live paycheque to paycheque. And for the last many months, all that they've heard swirling around their heads is a steady diet of the misadministration of X million dollars, the mismanagement of Y billion dollars and I have watched that and it has caused me great distress...The Liberal caucus has no room for debate, diversity or difference of opinion."
A former feminist pioneer, the socially conservative Sen. Cools battled her former Liberal peers for the past 7 years. She supports social welfare, but sought to reduce waste. She is a firebrand against abortion, gay marriage, and gun control.
I may defect and move to Canada if this keeps up...
It will be interesting to see how far this goes.
She is amazing - rarely have we seen a prominent LEFTIST march right across the spectrum to a conservative philosophy.
And she speaks up!
New day dawning in Canada placemarker!
Wow! I'd ask her to move down here, but these days, with those views, she might not be welcome in the Republican party, at least in some parts of the country!
Canada's Conservative Party has finally gotten its act together, merged its smaller parties into this new Conservative Party, and is giving the Liberty Party a run for its money in government. Let's pray for our northernly Conservatives to turn the tide, because Canada has been a de facto one-party democracy for about 43 of the past 60 years.
Conservative or non-liberal black people are popping up, around the world. There's June Arunga in Kenya, Lord John Taylor and Adam Afriyie in Britain, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (one of Europe's most vociferous critics about Islam) in Holland. Here in America, even liberals like Bill Cosby and various high-profile columnists are starting to promote our viewpoints (even if they refuse to give us credit for having talked about various issues for years). The tide is turning our way, I think.
Do Canadians really spell paycheck "paycheque"?
God Bless Her
Wow! I'd ask her to move down here, but these days, with those views, she might not be welcome in the Republican party, at least in some parts of the country!
Right you are! Some of the "big tent" morons wouldn't want her - egad! She has actual principles! - but here in the True (Conservative) Republican wing of the Republican party, she would be more than welcome! I just wish there were more courageous politicians like Ms. Cools here in the U.S.
Yes, we always check to make sure we have our multi-coloured cash or cheque-book handy.
;^)
Big Dittos to that!
where will the dummycrats flee to in November? Mejico?
Some past quotes:
“The concern is that pederasts and paedophiles will advance claims to engage in adult/child sexual relationships as a matter of human rights; that claims will be advanced on the legal grounds that pederasty and paedophilia are sexual orientations having entitlements.” (1996 Senate debate opposing adding sexual orientation inclusion to the Canadian Human Rights Act)
“Bill C-78’s clause 75 is flawed because it is stealthy; it is disingenuous. Honourable senators, sex, sexual activity, sex-like activities and all carnal actions are not a ground on which to found legal entitlements and obligations. Entitlements and obligations flow from social commitment, mutually accepted and given formally, not from carnal actions.” (1999 0Senate debate opposing pension benefits for gay couples)
“Misguided policies in social welfare law, in family law, in divorce law, in child welfare law, in abortion law have resulted in national problems, in our crises of father alienation and fatherlessness.” (2002 speech to International Fatherhood Conference in USA)
Some of her former Liberal Party peers were surprised when "as a black woman" she came out so fierce against gay rights and abortion, starting about 1996 when these issues really rose to the fore in Canada.
Welcome into the light Anne, you will be an asset to the cause.
Seems like a great African-American Canadian!
This lady will go far, if Canada hasn't already gone too far.
(steely)
She's not African-American (unless you broadly mean within all the Americas). They're called black Canadian or African-Canadian (or just plain Canadian). While there are black communities who have been in Canada since slavery (descendants of escaped slaves), especially in Nova Scotia, Anne Cools is originally from Barbados.
"Ordinary Canadians live paycheque to paycheque."
That's pretty fancy, isn't it? Ordinary Americans have to make do with paychecks!
I love all those Brit spellings, they are really much nicer, but I like how we Americans use "z" so much where the Brits, etc. use "s".
No, worse. Massachusetts.
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