BUSINESS-SAVING TIP FOR NEAR-BANKRUPT MEDIA: The CTV news division could save a whack of scarce cash by not making up total BS stories like this one, about how the evil Conservative Prime Minister and his evil army is intruding into the Liberals’ “Canada” division, and its “institutions”, thereby “destroying” its “enemies”.
Reader tip: what we are supposed to take from this “news” story is that Conservatives are “the enemy” of Canada.
…But some observers argue that several top appointments demonstrate Harper is intent on changing the nature of Canada by stacking key federal boards with allies and friends who share his political and social philosophies.
“One way to change Canada is to destroy the institutions created by your enemies,” said Stephen Clarkson, a prominent author and University of Toronto political scientist.
“You transform them by putting your people in to turn a Liberal institution into a Conservative institution, or maybe even drive it into the ground.” …
I certainly hope Prime Minister Harper has plans to destroy many so-called Canadian “institutions” (“institutions” being a code word liberals use to describe all of the 8,000 national universal pro-big-government social programs designed to engineer society into their yummy Utopian socialist nanny-state, because it gives dummies a sense of historic permanence and tradition and necessity). But of course I’m not a university professor so what the Hell do I know?
CTV doesn’t bother to tell us, but their prized “observer” (yes, they actually preface his credentials “a prominent author and University of Toronto political scientist” with the benign term “some observers”) is a hard-core Liberal Party stalwart. This is not mentioned, on purpose:
Wikipedia – Stephen Clarkson:
Following an unsuccessful campaign as Liberal candidate for the mayoralty of Toronto in 1969, Clarkson was active in the Liberal Party for six years. After Pierre Trudeau’s retirement from active politics in 1984, Clarkson spent a decade co-authoring the epic, Trudeau and Our Times, with his wife Christina McCall, which won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction [of course it did! —Joel].His knowledge and experience in Canadian politics led to the commissioning of a history of federal election campaigns in Canada from 1974 onward. These essays were the basis of his 2005 book, The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics…
But once you do know that, I think it’s funny how the political scientist (and—shhhh—Liberal Party hack!) admits that Canada and all its myriad bureaucracies and “institutions” are in fact Liberal—with a capital L even. (I usually just use a small “l” because over the decades, the various liberal-left governments have appointed not just capital-L Liberals but also capital-M Marxists and run-of-the-mill socialists and whacked-out leftists and environmentalists and other university professors and such).
But it’s also funny how he says “drive it into the ground” as if it’s a bad thing.
I’ve always said (even though I’m not a university professor, I too am a good “observer”—though I have a feeling the media would describe me otherwise, possibly using the words “extreme right-wing nutjob” rather than the cute “observer”), that Canada’s bureaucracy is in fact grotesquely stacked from top to bottom with liberals and sundry leftists, and that the Conservatives should, if possible, spend the next 30 to 50 years appointing nothing but solid, true blue conservatives to every post in the land, such that we regain some semblance of balance again in this country.
But what do I know. I’m not even a “journalist”!
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