Under “progressive” regimes (that’s code for “liberal” in case you didn’t know—they’re running away from the “liberal” label nowadays), Canada is stagnating and becoming a nation of humor. The world is laughing at us however, if they even notice us at all, anymore.
It’s because of how liberals think. And how Canadians vote.
By way of example, this week, the extreme left-wing Vancouver city council, which was democratically elected by supposedly educated, enlightened Canadians, decided, after two years of debate (yes, two years of “progressive”-ness!), to reject an application by Wal-Mart, who sought to commit an egregious act: build a store. Employee thousands. Provide more selection for shoppers, at better prices. In Vancouver. For shame!
A little background: Vancouver council is dominated by the COPE party, which is backed by the NDP. Many think of it as the civic version of the NDP since the major parties don’t officially run in civic elections in BC. COPE was founded by communists and communist sympathizers in the 1970s. That’s why I call the mayor of Vancouver, Larry Campbell, a “neo-communist”. That’s light compared to what he calls me and my wife and all you conservatives, which is “barbarians”. He did that in a media scrum during last year’s federal election in which he practically begged people to vote Liberal or NDP—anything but “barbarian”.
Current democratically-elected federal NDP MP and outspoken advocate of pot-smoking, prostitution, gay rights and government enforced public acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle and of course gay marriage, Libby Davies, was a COPE councilor in Vancouver, as was Svend (“sticky fingers”) Robinson. That taste in your mouth is vomit.
Today, the Vancouver School Board includes mostly COPE members, including Jane Bouey, who reportedly sits on the Central Women’s
Commission of the Communist Party of Canada, not that she mentions that anywhere in her resume. She donated $544.31 to the Communist Party of Canada according to Elections Canada in 2003. She’s a frequent writer for the People’s Voice (“Canada’s leading Communist newspaper”). She also “served” our children’s educational needs on the school board by involving herself “in the VSB Pride Committee as an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth”. That’s according to the Peoples’ Daily—“the official voice of the Communist Party of Canada”, which wrote about her.
She was elected by Canadians. As was Tim Louis.
Councillor Tim Louis, who is an overt Marxist as far as I can tell, and who at least once spoke at a Communist Party of Canada-sponsored event according to a post in the Communist Party’s discussion forum, joined the rest of his COPE party, who all voted against the Wal-Mart application. Tim Louis was the councilor who, when he attended the COPE party’s victory celebration nearly three years ago, showed-up in a Che Guevara T-shirt, which absolutely nobody questioned.
Communists who murdered countless innocents are heroes to the liberal-left in Canada. Wear an Ann Coulter T-shirt in Canada and you’re likely to be arrested for inciting violence. But more to the point, Canada and Canadians hardly blink an eye knowing that communists—both small-c and capital-C—are running, or have an increasingly large role in our governments.
In council chambers, speaking to Canadians who voted for him, Tim Louis called the Wal-Mart company “one of the world’s largest corporate criminals,” which allows suppliers to exploit child labour and “which donates money to the Bush regime in the United States”.
To me, that sounds exactly like a communist talking. People voted for a communist. That’s what people in Canada want running their country.
When Vancouver council and other governments in Canada are considering other development permits and such, I wonder if it matters to them that the applicants donate to the Conservative Party in the hopes of creating a “Harper regime”. Do they check that, and then act accordingly?
Notwithstanding the fact that to appease the liberal-left green eviro-nuts on council, Wal-Mart designed a building which used windmills and thermal energy for power, natural light, tree-plantings that would rival a natural forest… Louis simply poo-pooed all that. “A munitions factory with a windmill is still a munitions factory,” he said.
This “munitions factory” company gainfully employees 65,000 Canadians.
I imagine if a Conservative said something quite so vile, he’d be dead by now if only career-wise. Oh hang on—it happens every single day. Randy White dared speak up in favor of preserving a thousands-year-old tradition of marriage. The gall. Now he’s toast, notwithstanding the fact that he won his riding by a landslide right after saying those things.
But Louis wasn’t done speaking liberal-left yet. He started asking his fellow councilors, “If Osama bin Laden proposed a building with solar panels on the roof, would Vancouver city council allow it?” before the mayor cut off his microphone. To Tim Louis, Wal-Mart is exactly the same as Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Color me confused. I would have thought he’d be pro- al Qaeda. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that was a backhanded compliment for Wal-Mart coming from Louis.
That’s how the liberal-left addresses a company which employees as many people as the entire population of Saskatchewan, has a bigger budget than Saskatchewan, and gainfully employees about 65,000 Canadians, in over 250 stores in Canada. This is a company that, as columnist Michael Campbell says, donates an average of $135,000 a day to Canadian charities, including over $15 million to Canada’s children’s hospitals. “Sounds like a match to me,” he said of the comparison to Osama bin Laden. He also points out that Wal-Mart donated over $191 million last year alone to over 100,000 charities. Wal-Mart was also rated the top retailer to work for in Canada by Hewitt Associates for three of the last four years. And Ipsos-Reid survey measuring Canadian attitudes toward 20 major companies, ranked it second in terms of contributing to the welfare of children.
But that’s what Canadians vote for—that kind of offensive, ridiculous attitude. That kind of anti-Americanism and anti-capitalism and shear intolerance for anything that isn’t near communist or outright communist in ideology. That’s today’s Canadian liberal. And that’s how Canadians vote.
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