Knowing as I do the leftward slant to several of the most popular posters on this site I thought I would chuck out a small dose of political reality.
Canada once was known as a Liberal country at heart and the Liberal Party of Canada was known as "the natural ruling party".
No more.
The Liberal Party of Canada is now a shattered has been.
Change is a coming.
PM Harper is a strategist and an incrementalist by nature.
It took multiple Liberal majorities to slowly and thoroughly convert Canada's political, judicial, legal, military and civil services to a leftward orientation.
It will in turn take a long time and a lot of hard work to reverse that course.
Here is how it starts:
The blatantly Liberal Govenor General's Clarkson and Michaelle Jean have been replaced by a Conservative steady-eddy realist David Johnston.
The Liberal Speaker of the House Peter Milliken has been replaced by Conservative Andrew Scheer.
Many of us can remember the good old Chretien days when RCMP investigation after RCMP investigation plagued the majority Liberals.
But the good old Liberal Speaker deflected and killed all such talk in the house.
And then there was the parting Liberal hand-grenades lobbed by Milliken on his way out the door.
Well those days are over and now it will be a Conservative Speaker lobbing any future grenades.
The Auditor General in my view was hardworking and fairly unbiased.
She is now gone and it will be a Conservative appointment.
One can only assume the new Auditor General will have a slightly more practical and conservative background.
The Supreme Court of Canada.
The Supreme Court has since the time of Trudeau viewed itself as both a creator and a helmsman of Canadian ethics and institutions.
Liberal ethics, policies and institutions it goes without saying.
Three Justices are now stepping down, they will be replace by Conservative appointments.
In the next 4 years a few more will be stepping down and they too will be replaced by Conservative appointments.
I presume we can now look forward to the Supreme Court of Canada starting to champion Conservative policies ,ethics and institutions.
The Senate.
PM Harper and the Conservate Party of Canada would prefer to institute a triple E senate.
The provincial Liberals in Ontario oppose this as does Quebec and the Maritimes.
So PM Harper will just continue to stack it with Conservatives.
Every Conservative bill will fly through the house, all other bills for the foreseeable future will die on the floor.
Canadian riding adjustments.
The Conservative Party of Canada under PM Harper will be adjusted on a provincial basis to fairly represent Canadian population growth.
Thus BC, Alberta and Ontario will get a bunch of new seats.
The Maritimes and Quebec both oppose this change (of course).
This will geographically tend to slightly benefit the federal Conservatives in future elections.
Cutting the federal per-vote subsidy.
This will primarily benefit the federal Conservatives in future elections as the Conservatives have an extremely effective grass-roots funding network in place.
It probably will also help the NDP in future elections as the NDP has always had a rock solid grass-roots funding network in place.
It will absolutely cripple any future Quebec based sepratist parties like the BQ.
It will also badly further wound the ailing Liberal Party of Canada.
The above is factual reality.
We can only speculate on what further changes the Harper administration will bring down the pipe.
If I was a die-hard left wing believer I would probably ask my family to place me on suicide watch.
Trex
Canada once was known as a Liberal country at heart and the Liberal Party of Canada was known as "the natural ruling party".
No more.
The Liberal Party of Canada is now a shattered has been.
Change is a coming.
PM Harper is a strategist and an incrementalist by nature.
It took multiple Liberal majorities to slowly and thoroughly convert Canada's political, judicial, legal, military and civil services to a leftward orientation.
It will in turn take a long time and a lot of hard work to reverse that course.
Here is how it starts:
The blatantly Liberal Govenor General's Clarkson and Michaelle Jean have been replaced by a Conservative steady-eddy realist David Johnston.
The Liberal Speaker of the House Peter Milliken has been replaced by Conservative Andrew Scheer.
Many of us can remember the good old Chretien days when RCMP investigation after RCMP investigation plagued the majority Liberals.
But the good old Liberal Speaker deflected and killed all such talk in the house.
And then there was the parting Liberal hand-grenades lobbed by Milliken on his way out the door.
Well those days are over and now it will be a Conservative Speaker lobbing any future grenades.
The Auditor General in my view was hardworking and fairly unbiased.
She is now gone and it will be a Conservative appointment.
One can only assume the new Auditor General will have a slightly more practical and conservative background.
The Supreme Court of Canada.
The Supreme Court has since the time of Trudeau viewed itself as both a creator and a helmsman of Canadian ethics and institutions.
Liberal ethics, policies and institutions it goes without saying.
Three Justices are now stepping down, they will be replace by Conservative appointments.
In the next 4 years a few more will be stepping down and they too will be replaced by Conservative appointments.
I presume we can now look forward to the Supreme Court of Canada starting to champion Conservative policies ,ethics and institutions.
The Senate.
PM Harper and the Conservate Party of Canada would prefer to institute a triple E senate.
The provincial Liberals in Ontario oppose this as does Quebec and the Maritimes.
So PM Harper will just continue to stack it with Conservatives.
Every Conservative bill will fly through the house, all other bills for the foreseeable future will die on the floor.
Canadian riding adjustments.
The Conservative Party of Canada under PM Harper will be adjusted on a provincial basis to fairly represent Canadian population growth.
Thus BC, Alberta and Ontario will get a bunch of new seats.
The Maritimes and Quebec both oppose this change (of course).
This will geographically tend to slightly benefit the federal Conservatives in future elections.
Cutting the federal per-vote subsidy.
This will primarily benefit the federal Conservatives in future elections as the Conservatives have an extremely effective grass-roots funding network in place.
It probably will also help the NDP in future elections as the NDP has always had a rock solid grass-roots funding network in place.
It will absolutely cripple any future Quebec based sepratist parties like the BQ.
It will also badly further wound the ailing Liberal Party of Canada.
The above is factual reality.
We can only speculate on what further changes the Harper administration will bring down the pipe.
If I was a die-hard left wing believer I would probably ask my family to place me on suicide watch.
Trex
