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ELECTION 2006 AND ITS AFTERMATH
The federal election was quite a journey.
When it began, on November 29, 2005, the Liberals were in
the lead by 8 points. The Liberals were confident, even smug,
believing that the Conservatives would stumble and self-destruct
during the election campaign. The Liberals predicted all would
go well for them, as Canada's natural ruling party which would
win yet another (their fifth) straight election. Most agreed
with this analysis by Liberal officials. In effect, the Liberal
plan was to campaign on the same strategy as they had used
in the June 2004 election just 18 months previously. Not a
good idea.
REAL Women was one of the few organizations
in Canada which predicted last spring that there would be
a Liberal defeat in 2006. We were well aware that the political
situation had changed dramatically between the 2004 and 2006
elections. We predicted, in fact, a Liberal defeat in 2006
in a press release dated last June 29, 2005. In that press
release, we stated:
REAL Women predicts that the Martin Liberals
will meet defeat within the year during the next federal
election as history repeats itself:
- Liberal arrogance in 1957 over
the pipeline led to Liberal defeat
- Liberal arrogance and intensive
pork barreling in 1983 led to Liberal defeat
- Liberal arrogance over Bill C-38
and its imposing of the Bill which is unacceptable to the
majority of Canadians, and by compelling the Cabinet and
pressuring the Liberal backbenchers to vote for the Bill,
plus the Liberals' overt corruption, will lead to its defeat
in the early 2006 federal election
The Liberal government has outlived its
usefulness. It will not recover from Bill C-38. Corruption,
imposing on Canadians third world politics by way of arrogant
top-down government, open bribery to obtain votes, and the
manipulation of the Parliamentary process will bring down
this despotic Prime Minister and his cronies.
The Liberal government will linger on for
a few more months, but its time has run out.
Wait and see.
The many missteps by the Liberals during the
campaign, plus the RCMP investigation of possible wrong doing
in the Finance Department confirmed one very critical fact
- namely that Canadians understood during May and June 2005,
when the non-confidence votes and the vote on same-sex marriage
were taking place, that there were no moral or ethical considerations
that would stop the Liberals in their efforts to hold onto
power - power to be held for the benefit of the party and
its elites. To pursue this power, the Liberals used every
trick, misrepresentation, bribery and other devices at their
disposal.
The public knew then that the Liberals genuinely
believed that they were entitled to govern as a right. All
the bumps in the Liberal road that occurred since then, were
not the defining moments but rather, the moments to confirm
what Canadians knew about the Liberals and their leader Mr.
Martin. In contrast, at the time of the June 2004 election,
Mr. Martin had been Prime Minister for only six months. Few
at that time had an understanding of Mr. Martin or his policies.
By January 2006, they did, and they did not like what they
saw. They saw a political leader who would do whatever it
took to stay in power. The preservation of power was all that
mattered to him.
Liberal MP Belinda Stronach
What is so interesting in retrospect is that
the crossing of the floor by MP Belinda Stronach (Newmarket
- Aurora ) last May from the Conservative to the Liberal party,
which saved the Liberals from defeat in a non-confidence vote
at that time, was ironically a decision which saved the Conservative
party and led it to its victory in the 2006 election. That
is, if the non-confidence vote had been successful in May,
the Conservatives would not at that time, have developed their
extensive platform which did so much to dispel the alleged
"scary" perception of Mr. Harper and the Conservatives.
Without this platform on which to campaign in May, Mr. Harper
would have been restricted to campaigning only on the issue
of Liberal corruption - not enough to turn the voters away
from the Liberals, and to demand the change in government
that finally occurred in this January's election.
The Road Ahead
The Conservative win of 124 seats means that
Canadians will not have to struggle with the projected Liberal
policies such as the decriminalization of both prostitution
and marijuana and the easing of legal access to the non-medical
use of drugs. A Conservative government will also not bring
in a euthanasia bill, planned by former Minister of Justice,
Irwin Cotler. We must be watchful, however, for anti-life
and anti-family private members bills that may gain support
from a united opposition of Bloc (51 seats), NDP (29 seats),
and Liberals (103 seats).
Another advantage of the Conservative Party
win is that the Canadian presence at the UN will change. No
longer will Canada work with its former ally, the rabidly
anti-Christian left-wing European Union. Instead, hopefully,
Canada will, for the most part, be supporting the US government's
pro-life / family positions at the UN. Also the Canadian Ambassador
to the UN, Allan Rock, will soon be recalled and replaced
by an individual more amenable to Conservative policies.
A Conservative government will also begin
the difficult work of dismantling the Liberal infrastructure
that has served the Liberals so well over the years in perpetuating
its left wing policies. These include the funding of feminist
only and homosexual organizations, multicultural organizations,
and the Court Challenges Programme. The Status of Women and
the Law Commission must also be dissolved. The Conservatives
must also devise a transparent and honourable method of choosing
judges for the courts - there is already one vacancy on the
Supreme Court that must be filled immediately.
The road ahead for change will not be easy
for the Conservatives. They will have to move very slowly
so as not to alarm the electorate. They will also be harangued
by the propaganda of the hostile mainstream media.
Further, Mr. Harper spoke the absolute truth
on January 18, 2006 when he stated that his government would
have to deal with a Liberal-dominated Senate, a liberal judiciary
and the civil service.
The 105-seat Senate has 67 Liberals and only
23 Tories - the remaining senators are either Independent
or old-time Progressive Conservatives who never approved of
the merging of the Alliance Party with the former Conservative
Party. The senators are patronage appointments who owe their
position for their hard work for their respective parties.
Unfortunately, they see their job in the Senate not as being
a quiet reflective voice of sober thought, but rather as cheerleaders
for their party. Conservative legislation passing through
these raucous Liberal senators will not be easy.
Similarly, many in the civil service will
not be willing to be neutral despite their claims to the contrary.
This is especially true in regard to the Departments of Justice
and Foreign Affairs, where feminist/lesbian/homosexuals have
dominated the policy decision-making positions for several
years. Many of these latter see their role in government as
promoting the "progressive" agenda of the left in
government policy. They will not quietly depart, but will
remain on, if at all possible, to fight any changes in a conservative
direction. We can expect their attempting to undermine the
Conservatives by such actions, for example, as arranging significant
leaks to the media, which will be ready and willing to raise
controversy over any changes in the left agenda.
Finally, the Liberal appointed judges will
be ready with pens poised to block any affront to their personal
philosophies and ideologies by a conservative government.
They have no problem, as evidenced by some of the articles
in this issue of Reality, in making up so-called "constitutional"
reasons to block legislation not to their liking.
Despite these real problems, however, the
Conservatives will have to show they can govern and govern
well. It will not be easy having regard to the triple obstacles
mentioned above. However, the entrenched liberalism in the
government and our courts must be shown up for what it is
- sheer opportunism and manipulation to promote an agenda
for self-serving reasons, not for the benefit of the public.
In this regard, one of the first obligations
of the Conservative government will be to reform Parliament
so as to return to us once again a truly democratic government
- not one controlled by a handful of paid advisors in the
Prime Minister's Office.
Although the Conservative Party is forming
a minority government, its election marks the beginning of
renewal for Canada. The government must judicially and reasonably
carry out its responsibilities. If so, a conservative government
will be in power for many years to come.
Please let the new Prime Minister know that
Canadians want a pro-life/ family Ambassador appointed to
the UN. It will mean a great deal to Canadians as well as
to the world internationally, if he does so.
Please write to:
The Right. Hon. Stephen J. Harper
Prime Minister of Canada
Langevin Building
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Department of Foreign Affairs
Lester B. Pearson Building, Tower "A", 10th Floor
125 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2
Your MP
House of Commons
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
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