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Canadians for a Progressive Coalition
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 @ 12:36 amOn the Ryerson NDP blog: The best rundown of the idea of the Coalition and responses to the nonsense about it being “undemocratic” and “a threat to Canadian unity”.
And no, not “Progressive” as in that fiscal conservative Progressive Conservative party that used to exist before it was fused with the regressive social-conservative base of the Reform Party AKA the Canadian Alliance AKA the Conservative Party of Canada…
(Newspapers still refer to them as Tories, but would they call the NDP “Grits” if they changed their name to The Canadian Liberal Party? Not a chance.)
You know, that CPC that only ever tries to win votes via media propaganda releases filled with lies and fallacious rhetoric, the one that made their first act of their new minority-of-a-minority-of-voters “mandate” a blatant attempt to bankrupt every other political party in the country by eliminating vote-based public funding…
No, ‘progressive’ as in humanist, as in socially progressive.
And ‘Canadian’ as in humanist, as in socially progressive.
And ‘coalition’ as in IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME!!!
http://www.62percentmajority.ca/
Avaaz.org coalition support petition
Update: A document obtained by The Globe and Mail shows that the scheme would have propelled then Alliance leader Stockwell Day to power in the coalition.
Bloc part of secret coalition plot in 2000 with Canadian Alliance
DANIEL LEBLANC
Globe and Mail Update
December 3, 2008 at 2:07 PM ESTOTTAWA — The separatist Bloc Québécois was part of secret plotting in 2000 to join a formal coalition with the two parties that now make up Stephen Harper’s government, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.
The scheme, designed to propel current Conservative minister Stockwell Day to power, undermines the Harper government’s line this week that it would never sign a deal like the current one between the Liberal Party, the NDP and the Bloc.
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