Will I live long enough to ever see change in Canada? In the West, we all wonder.
Listening to a national talk show, like trained seals, it seems Toronto callers regurgitate Paul Martin’s obvious subterfuge, “we need to wait and see what Gomery decides.”
Under threats, Quebec Liberals have risked everything giving corroborated evidence as to what took place. In the West, we wonder what these Toronto callers are waiting for. Bodies?
One westerner who worked for change for more than 25 years has not made it.
At her funeral, I learned that Betty-Anne Snee was an ideological pioneer for many causes, including La Leche League. Lest we forget, in the early 1970s women were discouraged from breast-feeding their babies. While I did not know of her formal involvement in La Leche, it does make sense, since I have been told Betty-Anne often lectured at Alberta Federation of Women United for Families (AFWUF) meetings, but always made time to nurse her latest baby.
In the good old days when radical feminists used to strip in protest outside pro-family meetings, pre-Sun and pre-internet, Betty-Anne produced the AFWUF, as well as the REAL Women of Canada newsletter for well over 25 years.
Betty-Anne, a little woman from Lethbridge, produced these newsletters fighting for “pro-family values” with her six kids licking the stamps at the kitchen table. This is what the far-left continues to call the “scary” religious right.
Some might have called Betty-Anne stubborn, while others would classify her as an independent thinker ahead of her time. With their little newsletter, Snee and others who oppose militant-collectivist-feminism, have educated and challenged thousands of women across Canada to think independently.
Foreshadowing the latest revelations about the Liberal taxpayer-funded rapid response Gomery war room, another independent thinking woman, Senator Anne Cools, who left the Liberals for the Conservatives last June, has often said we are up against a government who will “use the public treasury against the very people to whom it is supposed to belong.”
Cools has also pointed out this government is turning thousands of average people, who have never had an interest in politics, into activists. This is shown by unprecedented turnouts at rallies defending marriage like the one held in Ottawa a few weeks ago that drew more than 15,000 people, and one held this Victoria Day in Toronto.
But women, not funded by federal lobby group grants, have often been treated roughly as “radical” reactionaries. A woman from the Thunder Bay area recently shared with me her experience when she questioned a Liberal cabinet minister on his marriage flip-flop. With a group from her community, she took time to question him on his voting record. More than rude, he praised the intelligence of the men in the group and this woman was made to feel isolated and almost threatened when she was ordered to “Stop it!” and “Sit Down!”
Likewise, I have noticed equally stubborn, average women from across Canada who refuse to give up. While looking for no gain of their own, they keep very thorough files of the letters they have personally written to politicians, as well as the responses or lack of response they have received.
There is power in persistence, as Betty-Anne Snee’s life is proof of. It’s not a question of if this corrupt Liberal regime will fall—but when. And when it falls, one of the main reasons will be the blessing of stubborn women.
Copyright ? 2005 Janet L. Jackson.
Columnist for the Calgary Sun, Janet L. Jackson is also Executive Director of the Canadian Conservative Union. Through her work with conservative political action committees, Jackson has been an effective and prominent voice for preserving traditional marriage, religious freedom and free speech.
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