Notley calls out LEAP Mainifesto

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You heard it here first. We are about to see the disintegration of Federal N.D.P. as they revert back to left wing environmental extremism. And my guess is that the Provincial N.D.P. in Alberta will be following suit after the next election. With the call for adoption of the LEAP Manifesto which is about as anti-energy as you can get, Rachel Notley has essentially been stabbed in the back by her Federal Party (cough cough) allies.

Notley sated publicly, “These ideas will never form any part of policy. They are naive. They are ill-informed. They are tone deaf.”
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And while she is right, it is now obvious that her party has been put between a rock and a hard place. With lagging popularity in the polls she has made a desperate plea to Canada's Prime Minister to help in getting Pipelines built so that Alberta can get its oil to market and the economy can rebound. This sudden shift comes with the reality that the N.D.P. is now in deep trouble in Alberta.

Notley stopped short of saying she would seek to split the Alberta wing of the NDP from its federal counterpart. Instead, she said, Alberta New Democrats will make their points from within the party.
“Those people that have that little (manifesto) document in front of them very possibly could have some other documents put in front of them not too long from now, so that the scope and the range and the breadth and the thoughtfulness and the information and the research behind those conversations improves substantially.”
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What we are going see unfold over the next few years will be the decimation of the NDP at a federal level and return to status of fringe. I would also go so far as to predict that Notley, much like Former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, will have her walking papers after the next federal election and that the bulk Alberta's Provincial N.D.P. MP's will follow suit.
 
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petros said:
She is indirectly or even possibly directly being coached by Wall.
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She needs all the help she can get, but her inaction from the time of election and hanging out with Wynne and Clark has hurt her a great deal and likely wont matter much in the end.
 
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The LEAP manifesto's silver lining is that a useless leader got turfed from the NDP just brcause this old dog was unwilling to learn new tricks.
 
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The NDP were hijacked by the environmental movement.

They used to be a left socialist party that championed the rights of the working class.

They were the conscience of the government.

Not anymore.
 
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Retired_Can_Soldier said:
The NDP were hijacked by the environmental movement.

They used to be a left socialist party that championed the rights of the working class.

They were the conscience of the government.

Not anymore.
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Correct. They were once a party with some basically good ideas and many wonky ones taken to the extreme.

Nowadays they are indicative of the most easily-swayed and ignorant folks in this country. Those caught up in low self-worth, the thumb typers, loners and emotic self-harmers...social drones, manbunners and weeds 'R' us members. They carry the early signs of political narrative regurgitators. talking points, social media hype, adoration-seeking and soundbite/message board whoaring. Also carried out by minions of the anti flossil fuel brigade.

Did I just say flossil? Hmmm. flossy, fossil, flossil. probably just a typo. anyway...

For those not yet in the know, this is what the liberal MSM is telling you is important and who started it.








The manifesto was crafted by bestselling author Naomi Klein and her husband, documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis. Mr. Lewis is also the head of the influential Toronto-Danforth riding association, and the son of former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis.

Leap Manifesto: What is it, and what could it mean for the NDP’sÂ*future? - The Globe and Mail


#demjoos
 
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Retired_Can_Soldier said:
The NDP were hijacked by the environmental movement.

They used to be a left socialist party that championed the rights of the working class.

They were the conscience of the government.

Not anymore.
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Now they champion the rights of government union workers .
The funny part is the government employees jumped ship and supported the liberals .
Turn around is fair play .

Locutus said:
Correct. They were once a party with some basically good ideas and many wonky ones taken to the extreme.

Nowadays they are indicative of the most easily-swayed and ignorant folks in this country. Those caught up in low self-worth, the thumb typers, loners and emotic self-harmers...social drones, manbunners and weeds 'R' us members. They carry the early signs of political narrative regurgitators. talking points, social media hype, adoration-seeking and soundbite/message board whoaring. Also carried out by minions of the anti flossil fuel brigade.

Did I just say flossil? Hmmm. flossy, fossil, flossil. probably just a typo. anyway...

For those not yet in the know, this is what the liberal MSM is telling you is important and who started it.








The manifesto was crafted by bestselling author Naomi Klein and her husband, documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis. Mr. Lewis is also the head of the influential Toronto-Danforth riding association, and the son of former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis.

Leap Manifesto: What is it, and what could it mean for the NDP’sÂ*future? - The Globe and Mail


#demjoos
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Why so much nepotism in the ndp ?
I just yesterday was referred to a leftist blog run by the daughter of Bill Blaickie .
 
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Meet the Leapers, the same-old cultural elite one-percenters



You could say that the distinctly Danforth-inflected pronunciamento that is suddenly causing so many New Democrats to say wicked things to one another — the Leap Manifesto — is a dangerously “left-wing” document that will cripple the federal NDP between now and whenever they get over it, which isn’t expected to happen before the next national convention in 2018.

But if you rely on a more conventional understanding of the term “left-wing” as being associated with gradations of socialism in the emancipation of the working class, the Leap Manifesto looks something more along the lines of what the great British socialist and essayist George Orwell was on about in The Road to Wigan Pier, in 1937. It is “really disquieting,” Orwell noticed, that wherever socialists gather, one will also find every manner of “fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘nature cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist,” all drawn in as if by some magnetic force.

There is certainly nothing wrong with being a feminist or a fruit-juice drinker or even a sandal-wearer but this does bring us straight to the business of the national gathering of the New Democrat Party in Edmonton last weekend.While we’re banging on about the Leap Manifesto, can we at least be straight with one another about who we’re really talking about here?

Celebrity anti-globalization activist and prize-winning author Naomi Klein and her husband, the CBC and Al Jazeera celebrity-presenter Avi Lewis (now the NDP’s Toronto-Danforth riding boss) assembled a variety of animateurs and enthusiasts from the “indigenous rights, social and food justice, environmental, faith-based and labour” movements in Toronto last spring. They talked a great deal about what could be done in Canada in light of the global climate crisis. They wrote things down.


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Terry Glavin: Meet the Leapers, the same-old cultural elite one-percenters | National Post
 
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even mass metricing can't help these dipper social media whoars this time.
 
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The fact that we continue to discuss this thing means that it has traction.

You can basically write off Canada ever getting back to center in the next 10 years.


And that makes Johnny a happy boy. :D
 
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