CD Howe At It Again

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Paranoid Dot Calm

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Hey! Reverend Blair

When I read stuff like this .... I feel like just walking up and slapping a policeman ..... just slap anyone in authority.

Because of your posts, I know a bit about your "history" ... I missed seeing you on TV the other night.
Yuh know, I've been an activist all of my working life. In 1983, I got 7 minutes on CBC with Barbra Frum and the Journal. I had 11 media crews lined up in my hallway awaiting interviews.
As a local union president in the late 70's, I actively participated in getting Bill C90 passed and the beginning of Health and Safety standards in Ontario. (The right to refuse dangerous work.)
I never got involved with the Environmental stuff, my trip was mostly safety and unionism.
I took on the SC Johnson company and formed the only union in the SC Johnson family of companies. A huge American company.
I spent 6 days on the witness stand!

I've heard all the C.D. Howe stuff all of my life. (I'm 56 years old). Everytime, when I participated in activism, I was said to be a "local-retard" and a "socialist". In the 70's if you had long hair and stood or participated in protests, you were said to be a communist.
"A disgruntled Canadian."

People like C.D. Howe and The Boys always won the arguments put forth and they always got their way.

Now .... after I look back, and know I was right, and review all the crap the rich have spewed .... I feel anger! Resentment! A need to "get even".

If more people like Linda McQuaid write more truth like this .... I may be driven to act or to act-out!


Calm
 
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Reverend Blair

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Apr 3, 2004
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You didn't miss me...they decided to use a guy from Detroit who thinks sparking up Old Glory is wrong instead. Where is this left-wing CBC I keep hearing about?

I don't feel a need to get even so much as a need to return to moving forward. What people your age did accomplish started moving backwards when people my age came along...you guys never really passed the torch and we weren't really there to take it anyway.

We were suddenly all too consumed with trying to get by. things have been going backwards ever since.

I think there's some hope though. People actually get out and protest again and we're seeing books like "It's the Crude, Dude" and "No Logo" more often now. It's not enough yet, but at least people are asking questions again.
 
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Reverend Blair

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Yeah, The Fraser Institute is pretty scary too. What gets me is that if a left-wing think tank is mentioned in the press (pretty rare) they get labelled as being an left-wing think tank. It's always, "The Tommy Douglas Institute, a left-leaning policy think-tank..." Fraser and CD Howe rarely get that treatment though, just their name with no mention of political leanings.
 
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Mooseskin Johnny

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Re: RE: CD Howe At It Again

Reverend Blair said:
What gets me is that if a left-wing think tank is mentioned in the press (pretty rare) they get labelled as being an left-wing think tank. It's always, "The Tommy Douglas Institute, a left-leaning policy think-tank..." Fraser and CD Howe rarely get that treatment though, just their name with no mention of political leanings.
Click to expand...

Even the CBC gives the Fraser Institute an easy ride. It is only some people on the Internet who expose these guys for what they are, corporate flunkies.
 
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Reverend Blair

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The big problem is that it kind of points to who the government is listening to. Are they listening to The Council of Canadians? Nope...they like corporate-funded places full of rich white guys.
 
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