Top Ten Unconservative Things the Conservative Party of Canada Has Done
May 14, 2009 · By Greg Farries
There isn’t anything quite as infuriating as watching a political party say one thing and then do another. In the case of the Conservative Party of Canada, they talk a lot about being conservative, but their actions (or inaction) has led certain critics to pan their “un-conservative” ways. We at the ThePolitic.com have never shied away from an opportunity to point out some of these inconsistencies and we would like to give our readers the opportunity to join in on the fun.
So here is your chance to win a signed copy of Mark Steyn’s Book, America Alone. Submit your suggestions for the top ten un-conservative things the Conservative Party of Canada has done since their election in 2006.
Basic contest rules: You can enter as many submissions as you want. After the contest ends Monday May 25, I will personally select the top ten submissions. Top marks will be given to those submissions which are well written and sufficiently persuasive. The top ten submissions will then be posted on ThePolitic.com on Tuesday May 26th, and I will give the readers of ThePolitic.com the chance to vote for their favorite submission. After voting has ended on Friday May 29th, the top submission will be rewarded the signed copy of Mark Steyn’s book.
If you want to be eligible to win the book make sure to include a proper email address when you submit your submission. If you have a weblog, make sure to include that with the submission, and if your submission is selected for the top ten list, I’ll link back to your blog in the top ten post published next Friday.
I’ll start things off – seeing that we’re giving away a Mark Steyn book, my submission for the top ten un-conservative things the Conservative Party of Canada has done is:
Allowing the Canadian Human Rights Commission (and Tribunal) to operate with relative impunity considering the mountain of evidence that the Commission and Tribunal are abusing their quasi judicial power and are a affront to freedom of speech and rule of law.
Of course, I’m not – nor are any authors on ThePolitic.com – eligible to win the book, but I still want to get in on the action. Good luck!
If they put an end to the human rights commission,you would never hear the end of it from the likes of Greg and the MSM .There is no winning for the Conservatives.If they support anything,they are bastards and evil and against the poor and homeless and unemployed.If they are against anything then they are knuckle draggers and against pregnant women and want to put guns in the streets and buy aircraft carriers.Just keep articles like this off of the tory blogs for gods sake,we have to fight the GD Liberals and the MSM of this country,also our past Prime ministers like Joe Clark if you can call him a prime minister from the conservative side and past idiot savant prime ministers Chretien dion and martin also referred to as the 3 unwise men.Then the nation destroyer Trudeau and his GD multicultural bill of rights.Just give us a break with your BS 10 list.You know perfectly well that this would never happen if the Conservatives had a majority.They are being blackmailed now by the opposition parties,but all will be rectified when the next election comes.You will see the coalition of evil destroyed by the voters and the Commisions in Canada will be about Chretien gate and the ADSCAM billions,not a paltry $300,000 that PM Mulroney earned for his services after he was no longer PM….ALL WILL BE REVEALED and the Liberals will finally get their punishment for their corruption.BUT go ahead GREG FARRIES write your imaginary lies about the Conservatives,but why not try doing it on the Liberal blogs.
take a breath there Bert, your gonna hurt yourself.
Bert, thanks for confirming the stereotype that all Canadian conservatives can’t go 5 minutes without a Trudeau rant.
Thanks, Bert…
You said it all far better than I could, there’s only one thing I would have added…
“A far more productive exercise would be to have a contest wherein the submissions would be entitled “Top Ten things the Conservative Party of Canada has done to Restore Hope for the Future of Canada”.
Cheers!
Imaginary lies?
You need to seriously take the partisan blinders off and demand better of your government.
Heh, Demand Better – jeez, wasn’t that the Conservative slogan before they got into power?
#1. Gone into deficit
#2. Not made Tasha Kheiriddin Finance Minister
#3. Not blown up Human Rights Tribunals and Human Rights Clownmissions (yet, I hope)
#4. Bought shares of private companies
#5. Not reducing the size of the federal/confederal gov’t
#6 (tie). Lack of strategic reform of health care
#6 (tie). Not made Tasha Kheiriddin Health Minister
#7. Not cut the gas tax or shifted other tax burdens onto it
#8. Not cut subsidies to separatist Quebec
#9. Not cut business subsidies
#10. Slamming the NDP & the Bloc in winter 2008 but in May 2009 cutting a deal w/ them.
1. Banning incandescent light bulbs
2. Buying a stake in GM or Chrysler
3. Buying into the stimulus nonsense
The biggest misstep of “Conservatives” in the Anglosphere is that they have ceased to be conservative in the most meaningful and essential sense. They have betrayed the concept of the Eternal Nation whose raison d’etre is to be the hearth and home of a flesh-and-blood people. For if “Conservatives” will not even “conserve” the stock of the flock that created nation and culture to which they owe their very being, and without with neither they, nor their people, nor their culture will survive, just good, really, are they? Everywhere we look now, European Man is passing away. And the indispensable guarantor of his continued life, of his genetic continuity, his sacred homeland, the Eternal Nation, is to be taken from him without him even being able to protest lest he be imprisoned. It is not too strong a descriptor to use in reference to this process, and I use it advisedly, it is genocide.
It matters not to me that this be well outside the boundaries of “respectable” discourse to say, for I love my people more, and all is naught and for naught but for they. And justice be done, whatever that may be which keeps us from our ability to forever be, will be mightily swept away.
The only words on the lips of true patriots can now be: “We will do whatever we must to remain forever ourselves.”
1. program spending as % of GDP
2. S.13 still law
3. Mass immigration continues
4. SOW lives!
5. Intervening on the wrong side in Lemire
6. Continued varying rules for EI
7. Bailouts
8. Failed to cut expenses when they had the chance
9. Continued support for the climate change delusion
10. Stimulus!!
But why are you calling this a Conservative government? Just because Harpo hijacked the brand doesn’t make it so.
By the way, speaking of phony, whats the deal with the “Canada sends me $11,000″ ad with the $2.94 cheque. I know, you are not responsible for the dumb ass advertisers but this is just so dumb.
We must begin with First Principles.
1. Life’s only purpose is the transmission of itself through time.
2. Man is of Nature, and his Nature is tribal.
3. It is part of our Nature to, when given to believe what is life giving, understand that not only is their a natural aristocracy amongst men, but also amongst peoples.
4. The ineffable majesty of the achievements of European Man could not have been wrought but for is unique genetic endowments. Western Civilization is only, ever, the extended phenotype of him.
5. If his blood is destroyed so too will be his civilization.
6. For him to live, he must have the necessary conditions to sustain his collective life, and to project it into the future, in perpetuity.
7. He must have the indispensable guarantor of his continued life: territory; a literally life affirming philosophy that sanctions his thoughts and actions as liberalism in all its incarnations does now; elites that are of his own people that occupy the positions of power that determine his collective life; to cease to be self-estranged to his true interests – which is to forever be.
8. European Man enjoys a life that is his own, exclusive and inviolate. His civilization, his homelands, his people are his own, exist in and for their own right, and not merely as fodder to serve the ethnic interests of others.
9. All peoples have ethnic (genetic) interests, and all of what they do, vis a vis us and them, comes down to that in the end.
10. Those of the Third World that have been brought amongst us must be repatriated. It is a necessary condition for the continued life of our people. If was Power that brought them here, it will be Power that sees them leave. We cannot shed too many tears for the disaccommodated, their people will not perish as a result of it, but for it, ours will. The interests of individuals, cannot ultimately trump those of peoples, for the interests of peoples in being is greater.
how about any vote that agrees with anything the loyal opposition puts forward. i was really pissed about the light bulb thing. the feds want me to put mercury in my home. i remember when indians in ontario were suffering from the effects of mercury from the fish they were catching and the pulp mills caught hell for it. having a senior moment her the damn tax thing on investments. can’t think of the right word but what the hell we lost a shit load of money.
by the way. i am the only conservative alive in canada and my mind is going.
STOOPID GREG DONT YOU KNOW THE CONSERVATIVES ARE PERFECT!!!!!!!
YOUR JUST A SECRET LIBERAL OR WORSE GREEN AND ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE HARPER LOOK BAD HES BETTER THAN TRUDEAU HURRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Well, I probably won’t win the prize for this one but:
1. Not done (or said) something so stupid that they are irredeemable and immediately thrown out of office or need a leadership convention (Campbell, Mulroney, Clark).
2. They haven’t alienated middle ground Canada with talks of bringing back the death penalty or shutting down the Human Rights Commission.
3. They have actually changed policy if they see their original policy not being viable.
4. They’ve kept power for longer than a year. For a Conservative minority Government that is unheard of.
5. They have been flexible. This is not a usual Conservative trait. I think of Conservative as moral but unbending.
6. I actually like the leader.
7. They went into deficit spending.
8. They agreed to give money away to stimulate the economy. Now it may have been pragmatic, which is good, but it was also shortsighted. I think GM will be an albatross around their neck…other companies are going to be singing “me to me too.”
9. They play fast and loose with the rules. Creating a Conservative MP out of thin air in Quebec?
10. The press hates the leader…oh wait that is exactly like the Conservatives