Tory Redux

Category: Canadian politics

  • One Student Stands Up Against The Insanity Of The McGuinty Protectionista’s

    In a free society not overrun by Protectionista’s,  it should only take one voice to stand up against the nonsense of the Ontario government nanny state. The latest driving regulation has upset many youths in the province because it is a clear form of ageism that violates their constitutional right. University student Kevin Wiener has decided to take the new regulation to court.

    It’s too bad the Ontario Liberals are more concerned about penalizing our youth instead of solving  the bread and butter issues that concern Ontarians everyday. Time will tell if one voice in the wilderness standing up for his rights can still make a difference in an Ontario plagued by Protectionista’s.
    While it’s true that all young drivers are inexperienced, not all inexperienced drivers are young,” he said.


    Wiener says this is a form of age discrimination and it’s unconstitutional. If people are old enough to fly jets in the military, serve jury duty and vote, they are old enough to make sensible decisions about drinking and driving, he says. He plans to file his challenge to the new law on Wednesday.


    “Adults are adults,” he said. “And [Premier] Dalton McGuinty is trying to treat people who are 21 years old like they’re children, and they’re not.”






     

  • Conservatives Need To Stand Up And Repudiate Liberalism

    William Kristol lends ideological weight to one of Sarah Palin’s tweets heard around the world. It is true a as conservatives of all stripes and diverse inclinations we have to stand up and beat back the advancing  brigades of big government

    from the weekly standard William Kristol



    The Declaration of Independence—and the successful struggle for freedom that followed—depended, then, on a grand refudiation of the existing arrangements under which America labored. The Constitution similarly depended on a refudiation of the Articles of Confederation. It required both an argument as to why they were failing and action to replace them. Each of our big, realigning elections—in 1860, 1896, 1932, 1980—reflected a refudiation of the political status quo. Politics is both argument and action. Realignment depends on refudiation.


    We are conservatives. We ordinarily shun novelties of all kinds, including new words. But desperate times call for desperate measures. The Obama project is one of noxious ideology and wild political overreach. The challenge before conservatives is to beat back both. So say it loud and say it proud: Refudiate liberalism now!

  • Liberals are Devilish Masters of Identity Politics

    The Liberal party that claims to be a force for good and the glue that unites this nation,  this week showed their true colours again as Master practitioner in the Arts of Identity Politics. This week a Liberal candidate in Calgary on the popular social media site Twitter, claimed that the Calgary cops were racists. Normally, this would be water off a ducks back, and merely chocked up as a  rogue candidate going way off the deep end in a riding that probably could only be won if Hell probably froze over first.   Sadly the Liberals have an illustrious history of playing Identity Politics by pitting one region or group against each other in the broad Canadian debate.

    In 2001 then Minister Hedy Fry tried to marginalize the Canadian alliance as a political force by alluding to that certain areas of British Columbia had crosses burning on their yards. A not so veiled reference to the Ku Klux Klan and their illegal and immoral activities of that organization in the United States.

    If an individual cast their gaze back even further to the time of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King,  he himself had a mixed record when it came to the mastering of the Faustian Fine Art of Identity Politics.  Famously in his first meeting with Adolf Hitler. he thought that Hitler was a fine fellow and would be a great leader for Germany. “My sizing up of the man as I sat and talked with him was that he is really one who truly loves his fellow-men, and his country, and would make any sacrifice for their good. ”  I’m not comparing King’s initial support for Hitler’s efforts in 1937 as it applies to the Liberals broad-brush approach to Identity Politics.

     The fact that King probably did not see the forest from the trees and assumed that Hitler was some type of fellow traveler  on the wave of progressivism sweeping the world.
    Smacks of a mere massive misreading or naïveté.
    However, something that cannot be excused is the blatant pass that the Liberals have been given on the issue of Identity Politics up to now.
    From the established historians to the halls of academia and the mainstream media have not traditionally held the Liberals feet to the fire on their lack of consistency when it comes to the issue of Identity Politics. They are a  party that is for everything and everybody when it suits them but when they see a political advantage can be gained they will instantly marginalize and demean the broad pageantry of the Canadian mosaic as a political tool to gain power.
    The Liberal party has been for one thing and one thing only the fastest and easiest route back into the government’s good graces.
    People should be judged for what they do not who they are.  the Liberals have clearly forgotten that and are comfortable treating people as just an appendage of a broader political base. This is the fundamental flaw in the modern Liberal Party of Canada and  Liberal ideology.