Long-time readers of this web site know about my disgust for liberals and liberal-left governments creating an almost irreversible nanny-state, over Canada’s past 40 years. It is such that today, nearly every Canadian citizen either works directly for the government or a branch or agency or crown “corporation” thereof; or for a non-profit organization or a company that depends to one extent or another—often fully—on state supports and corporate welfare of one kind or another (and there are many, many “or anothers”).
This government “support” (to those of us who aren’t drunk or high on crack, we know it’s actually the exact opposite) often manifests itself, by direct government order, with the proper display of what I rightly call the liberals’ Orwellian, socialist, state-sponsorship logo: 
—now seen plastered over nearly every even remotely Canadian thing. At town or city festivals, at fireworks, at local parades, at the end of every single Canadian TV show or movie, and more. In fact it’s now so ubiquitous that Canadians—even me—hardly even notice it any more—at least on a conscious level. (Of course therein lay the point. You are getting sleepy!)
Much to my non-surprise, it is also found in magazines, even the likes Canadian Business Magazine, with no apparent display of irony. (The closest irony or incongruity I’ve seen that compares is whenever the state-owned, state-run CBC Newsworld channel, totally reliant upon socialism and the state, presents its hourly travesty: their “Business Report”. They don’t make much of this but the truth is, the rest of their broadcast is the “Socialist Report”.)
It seems nothing in this country is now immune from years of liberal-left governments and their effort to make everyone and every entity in this country reliant on the state for its very survival. It extends not just to lazy adults and lousy unimaginative corporations, but even to families too, as we know too well—think not just of our health care, which by law can only be paid for and provided by the state, and our education system, but also think of the liberal-left’s recent and continuing effort at creating a national universal socialist child care (and “early learning” —wink!) program.
I found the famous logo at top left in Maclean’s magazine, as you can see. They write above it in tiny writing:
“We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) and the Canadian Magazine Fund toward our mailing and editorial costs.”
—Maclean’s magazine
I looked up the “programs” that they refer to and of course they | each have a huge web site; each one, in my expert estimation, costing about 8,000 times more than this site to create and then maintain; and each program obviously having a big fat bureaucracy, staffed, no doubt in my mind, with liberals who were appointed by liberals (and so on, and so on…).
The idea that magazines and other print media get tax breaks and breaks on postal delivery (thanks to yet another state-owned, state-run monopoly which shouldn’t be, Canada Post) and direct infusions of taxpayer cash—supposedly to help them come up with Canadian editorial content!—disgusts me (readers might think I’d be over it by now. Nope.).
Exemplifying the teat-sucking inherent in this kind of abject nanny-statism and liberal-left Fabian socialism, I sure do wonder why supposedly capitalist corporations (“Canadian Business”, no less!) accept taxpayer cash from the government to “help” them. Even the successful ones accept it. Those of us in the sensible set— conservatives and some others who are on Canada’s side —know that it creates a dependency among otherwise private, capitalist citizen-owned corporations, not at all unlike many of Canada’s perpetual welfare recipients and, say, the CBC and heroin addicts.
I tracked-down a list of magazines that are recipients of our benevolent government’s cash —otherwise known as my cash and your taxpayer cash. A few which caught my eye for 2006-2007:
- MACLEAN’S – $421,420
- CANADIAN BUSINESS – $179,549
- FAB MAGAZINE (a gay magazine) – $35,751
(Be sure to visit their online store and buy a copy of the DVD “Dude, Suck My Dick”!) - OUTLOOKS (a gay magazine) – $24,222
(Be sure to see their new year’s feature on male butts (see right)! Apparently it’s “The Year Of The Butt”. I did NOT know that.)
Oh thank GOD for the government and its benevolent “help”.
Some of you will remember Fab magazine (from a previous blog entry back in 2005) as the one which did a big cover shoot—and someone also provided some terrific Canadian “culture” post cards—with this bit of Canadian “culture”, just after failed Liberal leader Paul Martin massaged the Supreme Court’s loins and got a giant gay “marriage” bill passed (after Liberals appointed a couple of gay-supporting Supreme Court justices, just before the case came to court and just before an election). Apparently the chaps at Fab didn’t fancy Stephen Harper and his (weak, if existent at all) stand for traditional marriage and families any more than Paul Martin and the liberal-left cabal he led.
They also had cover shoots featuring such “Canadian culture” “icons” as the leftist Mayor of Toronto, David Miller; and leaders of the you’ve got to be kidding party, Jack (“ass”) Layton and his “life partner”, Olivia Chow (who sounds very much like a communist to me), posing ironically like the very bourgeoisie they and all Marxists detest… inexplicably with an RCMP pretender. Guess that’s the “Canadian culture” angle!
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(But don’t miss their past issue on getting “boned” on Halloween. It’s a Canadian tradition!)
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For its part, Maclean’s has engaged in some pretty dodgy “Canadian culture” as well, recently:
Here’s their Canadian culture information in which they nix waiting for history to write itself, and just go ahead and inform you to hate conservative George Bush right now (last year, actually); and loving that leftist Barack Obama:
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Here’s their Canadian culture tribute to the liberal-left’s Prophet, Saint David Suzuki; and more on Bush… who is EXACTLY like the savage nutbar terrorist, Saddam Hussein!:
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Don’t forget the new Canadian culture “progressive” necessity of hating or at the very least, thoroughly questioning Christianity! Vote liberal!
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These magazines have now all managed to create and run associated web sites to go along with their actual magazines of course. In fact their online presence is increasingly important to their bottom line and has no doubt added to their “success”. Still, the support continues. I imagine they’ll soon get state “support” to run their web sites too. Maybe they already do.
One of the biggest mysteries in Canada is the strange absence at CBC.ca —even in their columnist section and documentary sections and on their 800 TV channels— of that ubiquitous Canada logo. You’d think it would be their own official logo. They get in excess of ONE BILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer cash every year, and have done so for years and years, to say nothing of other taxpayer supports, in order to compete against citizen-owned TV and web sites.
Lest you think I’m complaining and that “I want my share too” (or some other NDP or communist-sounding bromide), no, not at all. No, there is not the slightest chance that I will ever, ever accept any kind of taxpayer cash for this web site. That decision is what I call “principle”. My principles. What I thought were Canadian principles. I pray to God I’m not wrong and that it’s not already too late, and that Canadians will wake from their liberal-left state-induced trance soon.
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