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You Have The Right To Know: Famed Mag Says We're A Mess

December 8, 2005

At a time of election, which is a time of history, you have the right to know these facts.  First on the healthcare issue:

If you only look at this when the governments tell you that it’s going to get worse, you’ll have to face it again.  The high rising cost of healthcare is because of the criminal negligence on the part of our politicians to address the issues of poverty, racism and injustice. 

With all the money wasted on the Gomery Issue, the billboards of Quebec, dividing Canada more than ever.  The insecurity, the instability causes a very high rise in healthcare.  The poisoning of waters by pollution, where the governments knew this years ago, where now Paul Martin speaks about the Kyoto Accord and labels the Americans as not doing their part.  Canada, in Northern Manitoba is known to be the worst polluter in the world, rising the cost of healthcare in all Native communities.  I guess they’re just Indians.  The sooner they die, the better: less responsibilities.

Now you will find this article from economists, that speak of special report on the state of Canada saying that our politics is a “fractured mess”, that the Conservatives carry baggage from the merger of old Conservator and Canadian Alliance.  Stephen Harper is described as an “aloof cerebral figure” and as to Paul Martin, that he is a “grumpy anti-American”.  They are three brewing political storms one in Quebec, Martin in the relation with the U.S. and where it says clearly Prime Minister Paul Martin is “a good finance minister [with $161 million dollars now missing] but as Prime Minister, he has on the whole disappointed.”

We are, at the People’s Political Power, not a political party but a voice for the nation. 

There is a war in the world between two powers of dictators: socialist communists and imperialists, dissolved in a socialistic view as long as they dominate over communism.  Neither one is acceptable.  Read this article:

Famed mag says we’re a mess

The economist has special report on the state of Canada

John Ward, Canada Press

Ottawa - Canada is still cool but our politics is “a fractured mess,” says the influential British magazine The Economist.

Two years after first declaring Canada “rather cool”, the latest edition of the weekly concludes the country is “not at its best, just at the moment.”

It says Canada is beset by dysfunctional politics, grumpty anti-Americanism and three brewing political storms: one in the West, on in Quebec and one in its relations with the United States.

The business-oriented publication is running a 14-page special report and a lead editorial on Canada.

It’s upbeat about Canada’s overall prospects: “Peaceful, diverse, tolerant )in June gay marriages became legal throughout the country) and with long-term riches to boot – if this isn’t ‘cool’ what is?

However, it points to turbulence.

Looking at the campaign for the January 23 federal election, the survey describes the political scene as a fractured mess.

Prime Minister Paul Martin is “a fine finance minister, but as prime minister he has, on the whole, disappointed”.

Aloof, cerebral

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is described as “an aloof, cerebral figure, disparaged well beyond Liberal circles as a neo-conservative importing dangerous ideas from the United States”.  He is also “clueless with the media”.

The magazine dismisses the NDP (Leader Jack Layton isn’t mentioned) as “a socialist party from the old world that is ill at ease in the new one and has yet to find its Tony Blair.”

It touches on the sponsorship scandals, but says the country’s political problems go far beyond sleaze.

“A funny sort of government.” Reads one headline.

The Economist talks of the country’s highly centralized system, where power concentrates in the prime minister’s hands.  Real opposition comes not from provincial parties, but from the provinces, it says.

There are disturbing portents in this troubled political mix.

Alberta, awash in oil money is grumbling about a distant, aloof Ottawa.  Separatist sentiment is stirring again in Quebec.  And Canada’s relations with the U.S. – vital to trade and prosperity, but vulnerable to bickering over everything from mad cows to Republican politics – are fraying.

The magazine says the most likely outcome of this “untimely election” is another Liberal minority, propped up by the NDP. It says the Conservatives carry baggage from the merger of the old Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance.

(See original article here)

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