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Date Posted: 16:00:34 08/02/05 Tue
Author: Dwight Richardson
Subject: Re: Why Canadians vote Liberal
In reply to: Randall Pare' 's message, "Why Canadians vote Liberal" on 08:27:49 05/16/05 Mon

>Dear Mr. Coren,
>
> I plan to vote Liberal in the next election. I am
>not a member of the lunatic left. I am well educated,
>but I did not get that waY through loans and grants, I
>worked three jobs while attending university. My vote
>does not spring out of some misplaced credit for how I
>got to where I am. I am too young to be a left-over
>hippy... I am to old to be disregarded as naive. I am
>a hard working member of the middle class and I feel I
>am over-taxed.. and that the government wastes my
>money. Yet I am going to vote Liberal. I am a
>Christian, and I am an active pro-life advocate... yet
>I am going to vote Liberal. I am going to vote Liberal
>for all the same reasons that I have voted Liberal in
>the past:
>
> 1> The right wing {
>reform-alliance-conservatives } desires a more
>capitalist approach to our quality and standard of
>life. Putting all of the responsibility for the poor
>on their shoulders is as shortsighted as trying to
>take all of the responsibility for their predicaments
>on our shoulders { the nation/ gov't }.
>
> 2> The right wing desires an end to Universal
>Health Care. They will settle for diluting its
>efficiency until such a time as voters can be conned
>into abandoning it.
>
> 3> The right wing would rather have the
>comfort of buying off separatists than confronting
>them. Previous conservative governments { Mulroney }
>were riddled with these scandals. The right wing
>propaganda now attempts to paint the Liberals as the
>cause of seperatism.. or at least its rekindling. That
>is like blaming the police for criminals.... absurd.
>Pierre Elliott Trudeau showed us how to confront
>seperatists one does not need to buy them off... that
>is sanctioned blackmail. One needs to challenge them
>intellectually and ideologically... one needs to call
>them out and let them vote if they think enough people
>in Quebec will follow them. In that harsh
>and revealing light they have always failed. These
>seperatists are traitors and to avoid confronting them
>only makes a government appear weak.
>
> 4> The right wing will try to sway the
>pro-life movement into voting with them. I have always
>seen this as a deliberate and ridiculous ploy. These
>very same people
>are perfectly willing to march us into whatever war
>the U.S.A dreams up. how can anyone claim to be
>'pro-life' and pro-war at the same time??? Obviously
>their pro-life position is not honest and is merely an
>attempt to win the pro-life vote!
>
> 5> The Bloc is an organization that exists
>solely to bring about the end of Confederation.
>Therefore it is not a viable option for voters as a
>national party..
>unless one is an anarchist who seeks the end of this
>nation into regional semi-autonomous states.
>
> 6> The NDP has never shown the ability to win.
>I would consider them as an alternative, just to shake
>up the status quo... if I thought they had any chance
>of
>being more than an opposition party. That being said
>they have used their influence over the decades to
>represent the left wing in this nation and fight for
>social values
>and justice. While I admire their ideals I truly doubt
>they have the business acumen to make the tough
>compromises that a national government must make.
>
> Mr. Coren, with all due respect, you asked in your
>column why anyone would be afraid of the consevatives.
>By extension you question why anyone would vote
>Liberal. I hope that these points, while you may
>disagree with them, illustrate why millions of
>Canadians have voted Liberal in the past and will most
>likely continue to do so. The Liberal Party
>historically and for the foreseeable future represents
>the political centre in Canada and thus is able to
>reconcile the left wing desires for social programs
>with the needs of a balanced budget. The Liberal party
>is a compromise for the vast majority of us who find
>the notion of empowering one wing over the other to be
>too fanatical. We are a nation that embraces
>compromise... I am proud of this.
I would never vote conservative,the religious christian right are more scary than the Taliban.Conservative governments are all about their way is the only way.WHO made them Gods spokesmen,a pox on all their houses.

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