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CanadaCanada was founded by Conservatives—a thought which liberals detest as much as the fact that the first line in our Constitution’s Charter of Rights is: Whereas Canada is founded upon the principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law

In fact they detest much of Canada today and constantly seek to redefine it.  They don’t like it the way it is.  Most recently, the liberal-left fundamentalists and extremists have been working successfully on the most fundamental institution of all, the Canadian family, and are close to redefining that.  The liberal-dominated Senate should OK that within the week. 

But despite their abject hatred of Canada the way it actually is and was created, you’d think the notion of seeking out the birthplace of Canada’s father of confederation and securing it would be at least somewhat important to the liberals.  But they seem to have overlooked that.

State-run Edifice to big Soviet-style governmentEven just this morning, I read in my paper where the state-run CBC is seeking to spend countless millions of taxpayer dollars (on top of the well over one BILLION dollars it gets in taxpayer funds every single year) to make their already huge, dominating state-run Vancouver TV studios an even more huge Soviet-style edifice to Soviet-style state-run media.  More prominent, more visible.  The state isn’t yet appreciated enough!  Christ Church Cathedral has that damned central location stealing all the thunder from the huge government edifices!  It must be changed.  Taxpayers will pay for it. It’s a Canadian virtue just like abortions are.

Liberals are for this sort of thing.

The state-run CBC has spent tons of taxpayer funds denouncing Fox News Channel, and conservative thinker Ann Coulter, and Vice President Dick Cheney, and President Bush, and all things American, as well as anything “capitalist” and “free-market”, but it seems nobody at the CBC bothered to do a state-funded documentary on where in tarnation our (Conservative) father of confederation was born. 

Private media company Canwest Global did some digging and wrote this story this morning:

It’s been 190 years since Sir John A. Macdonald was born in a tenement dwelling above the shops on a narrow, dingy street in downtown Glasgow, an inauspicious beginning to the life of Canada’s founding father and pre-eminent historical figure.

Now, with the country poised to celebrate the 138th birthday of the nation that Macdonald ushered into existence July 1, 1867, a team of Scottish heritage officials – spurred by a CanWest News Service inquiry this week into the birthplace of Canada’s first prime minister – has rediscovered a significant architectural relic and is working to commemorate the long-forgotten landmark.

To the experts’ astonishment, the place where Macdonald was born has never been officially recognized. And to their delight, much of the building in which Canada’s chief Father of Confederation spent his early years still exists in the heart of old Glasgow, clad in the seedy trappings of a defunct massage parlor and derelict pub.

Every inch of 20 Brunswick St. is the kind of setting one could imagine giving rise to the gin-soaked scoundrel-statesman of Canadian lore.

Astonishment, delight, then dismay: no sooner had the heritage conservationists found Macdonald’s birthplace than they learned it is slated for demolition.

And as if that isn’t enough irony, the commercial developer set to swing the wrecking ball is one of Canada’s own leading businessmen – billionaire grocery mogul Galen Weston, husband of Ontario’s history-loving former lieutenant-governor Hilary Weston, and a major financial backer of Macdonald’s Conservative Party heirs.

[…] No one at the company – and no one, until this week, in Scotland’s heritage community – realized that among the structures to be razed for the new development is the 200-year-old building where Macdonald was born and lived from 1815 to 1820, before his family emigrated to Canada.

“We actually didn’t know. We hadn’t figured it out,” said Glasgow Townscape Heritage Initiative director Liz Davidson. “This puts it in a slightly different light. We need to commemorate it properly. It’s far too significant not to.”

[…] “Historic Scotland would support any initiative that would see 20 Brunswick St. commemorated,” said heritage site inspector Dawn McDowell, a Canadian-born conservation specialist with the agency.

“At this advanced stage, it is possible that consideration might still be given by the developers to incorporate fabric of this building into a new development in a creative way. Or perhaps a memorial could be made making clear that the site of 20 Brunswick St. was the birthplace of Sir John A. Macdonald.”

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