Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The Anti-Coalition Coalition's Anti-Petition Petition

Stephen Harper knows a thing or two about coalitions, after all, he was once the President and Vice-President of the National Citizens Coalition.

All this crazy talk of left-wing coalition building is taking the spotlight away from the more troubling issue. We currently have a Prime Minister who, in the midst of an economic downturn, would rather craft policies based more on partisan warfare than financial prudence. Harper and his administration have been bullying parliament for too long now, passing legislation designed to corner the opposition into submitting rather than calling another very early and unwanted election.
Harper's attempts to plow salt into the fields of the Liberal Party by cutting off their funding has actually created this new left-wing coalition as a reactionary tactic. I won't argue, it seems strange. A separatist, a socialist and a centrist running the country together. Odd bedfellows indeed. But nobody knows what type of results this style of governance will produce. And after deep contemplation, I just can't think of one problem arising from any type of coalition building. That's what democratic governments do in order to function properly.
Don't let any of the media's scare tactics dissuade you from this wavelength of positivity. The Bloc have promised stability for at least 18 months, the NDP and the Liberals have both made compromises in order to bring about positive change to Canada. We may not fully know where this new style of leadership will take us, but what results have the Conservatives produced in their attempts to create an Emperor in a Parliamentary democracy? Our respectable standing in the world has been slowly diminished, as have our precious natural resources been sold off at an accelerated pace southwards to the United States. We need a new vision to deal with new global problems. Not the same old corporate bullshit that produces such ghastly economic, environmental and social imbalances. Harper has to go...
As I conclude, I'd just like to recall for a moment one Mr. Stephen Harper recently standing up in Parliament to announce to the speaker that in forming a coalition, the opposition are about to play one of the biggest political games in history. He may be right, their game is pretty big. But Harper failed to mention that the trophy for the biggest political game ever played still rests on his own mantle at 24 Sussex. Harper's condemnation of political coalition building must be reserved specifically for the left. For if one is to stare long enough at his Conservative Party of Canada, one may just barely make out the old crookedly stitched seams where the Reform Party became the Canadian Alliance, and together with the PC's they formed the new right-wing Frankenstein currently stalking Parliament. Guess who masterminded this great merger of Conservative ideologies?

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