Posted on 05/18/2005 1:02:12 PM PDT by quidnunc
From the lips of the lovely Belinda Stronach, Canada received her Judas kiss yesterday. It allowed a bottomlessly corrupt government to escape an election; to continue in office with an agenda that will tear to pieces what remains of our social fabric; which will radically advance the cause of separatism in Quebec, and spread it irretrievably to Western Canada; which will put the country on the fiscal skids. This should not be understated: our country has been delivered into the hands of the wreckers.
I am writing this column now because I do not believe I could persuade my editor to run the space blank. That would most eloquently approximate to what I thought at precisely 11:11 a.m., yesterday, when the news reached me. In a single image, I took in the final betrayal of Canada — those two smiling faces.
On Saturday, I wrote that last week had been the most disgraceful in our Parliamentary history: the first time a government had ever refused to acknowledge that it had lost the confidence of the House of Commons. Nor can I find a precedent, in Canadian political history, for the act which the ditzy Ms Stronach so glibly performed.
Over the weekend, Paul Martin suckered (the word is not too strong) Stephen Harper into a Parliamentary “truce”, while Ms Stronach unsheathed the knife for Mr. Harper’s back. She had only waited for the opportunity to be presented; to get the timing just right.
Yet the sight of Ms Stronach and Paul Martin smiling for the camera could not come as a complete surprise — any more to me than it should have come to Ms Stronach’s recent lover, her fellow Conservative frontbencher, Peter MacKay. He has also been stabbed in her trip across the floor. In personal terms, Mr. MacKay learned too late what kind of woman she is.
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Thanks for the heads up. We need to start sending our settlers into Alberta ASAP.
No surprise that this bimbo is Bubba's 'special' friend.
"In personal terms, Mr. MacKay learned too late what kind of woman she is."
Isn't she one of Bubba's many, many rich floozies?
The biggest obstacle to a unified Canadian nation has been its sparse population, not its English and French cultures. The harsh reality up there is that the country has so few people spread out over such a large land mass that it is basically ungovernable. As a result, the strongest ties that are maintained in Canada are actually north-south, not east-west.
This means that every geographic region in Canada has a cultural "sister" down here in the U.S. Vancouver and Seattle have their own urban Marxist attitudes, Toronto and New York have their big-city decadence in common, Ottawa and Washington have their useless government "industries," etc.
What is happening in Canada right now is proof that when Socialism fails it can only continue through the usurpation of democracy.
ping.
Great analysis. I used to watch Alberta TV on cable when I was going to school in Bozeman. I got the impression that Lethbridge was more like Havre, MT than any place in Canada.
You nailed it. Where I live in Montana, we have much more in common with the folks in Cranbrook than with the cretins in D.C. You listen to CBC when you're up there and just shake your head.
thanks for the ping.
Goofy stuff going on up there.
This can only happen in this day and age for one simple reason: M-E-D-I-A. That is big Liberal media that have a vested interest in supporting this gov't through hell or high water as long as they offer the idiological goodies that they hold so dear. The media does not take to task the implications of these going ons. Maybe just maybe Lucien Bouchard and the separatists were right after all.
Canada cannot be saved as a Parliamentary incarnation since the moral character of those in power is lacking. New ideas are discarded or worse discouraged. Traditional Canadian ideals like rugged individualism and free spirited thinkers have given way to Status quo statism and worse, has been branded of all things anti canadian and idiological.
I never thought it would come to this.
When asked to choose between Washington and Ottawa, most Albertans I know would select "Calgary" instead!
Isn't Edmonton the capitol?
You went to school in Bozo, I don't suppose you ever hung out in the Rocking R/??
There was quite a chaotic scene outside the prison gates that morning, as a crowd of people from the rural towns surrounding Bowden blocked the road and threatened to rescue the kids, overturn the prison vehicle and set it on fire. Order was restored when the mother pleaded with the protesters not to engage in any kind of violent behavior, but Schneeberger didn't get to see his children that day.
The following morning he filed a surprise motion with the prison officials, withdrawing his visitation request and asking the Canadian court to vacate its original decision. He showed up at a hearing bruised and beaten, looking like he had been run over by a dump truck. To this day nobody knows if he "fell down" at the hands of his fellow prisoners, or the Bowden guards.
Gotta love those rural Albertans. The Parliament riding (that's sort of like a Congressional district) that includes the Bowden area is also famous for its total lack of compliance with Canada's mandatory gun registration law. I believe this is the area represented by the Alberta legislator who refuses to register any of his guns, and carries a pistol into the provincial capital every day just to make his point.
How will this affect walleye fishing and the Moosehead manufacturer?
Yes, but "Redmonton" is a liberal city and is really no better than Ottawa or Washington. The problem with that city is that it is a center of government as well as the home of the provincial university -- which means the culture up there is sort of a cross between the political climate of D.C. and the academic climate of Ithaca, New York.
In other words, Edmonton equals Austin.
Which, given the other similarities between Alberta and Texas, is fitting and appropriate.
Sounds good! Would you care to be the Nation of Alberta or North Montana?
Heck yes. I think I still have one of the bright yellow T-shirts. In my day (82-86) they had $.25 beers from 5-7 on Fridays. You would go and order 20 and carry around a cafeteria tray full of beer in paper cups in a tiny storefront bar crowded elbow-to-elbow with other students carrying trays full of paper cups. No room to do anything other than stare at each other and drink.
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