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Canadian Politcal History.
As a one
time Conservative Riding secretary and of an age greater than 90% of Canadians
I offer this glimpse into our past.
The
Liberals built Canada with little interruption to their base until 1919 to
1937 in which case the American Republicans working through the Mormon Church,
helped them establish "The United Farmers of Alberta" This
party morphed itself into the Veterans and Active force, 1944 to 1948,
again the US Republicans were fully involved.
This morphed into the Conservatives which
found a hard landing after Diefenbaker and the Avro-Arrow. (You now know the reason Diefenbaker
scrapped the Arrow in Canada allowing the US to take up the design and ordered
the only prototype of the Aero destroyed.) and, Harper sold off the Canadian Wheat Board to US interest in leaving
office. Related:
They again morphed into the Progressive
Conservatives. This party was started by Peter
Lougheed and company. Peter broke away from the Republicans, in fact,
took on US oil interests in Alberta in the much-maligned NATIONAL ENERGY
PROGRAM. Peter became the most popular Premier not only of Alberta but,
all of Canada. A time of no internet, those with the money ruled the
press. A world recession stepped in and interest rates went to
25%. Families invested in oil lost homes and there were a number of
suicides With no internet, those with the money ruled the
press! This was all blamed onto The NEP which was destroyed!
When
Klein took over he doubled down with the US Republicans. All this
happening while the Wild Rose Party kept the original foundation going with the
Church. Now we had two political parties which could appear as
opposition, one extreme and one tame by comparison. Doing what they do
best, played both ends against the middle.
Notably,
Klein started the bleed on the Heritage Savings and Trust by freezing the fund
at 5% profit taking all above into General Revenue to support his 10% flat
tax. The loss to Albertans 760 billion dollars most of which went
directly back to US parent companies. Norway over the same period banked
over 1 trillion dollars. With just 1/2 of the production.
Klein
also ushered in the Energy East plan. At one point he was going to
continue with Lougheed's plan of building a Refinery in Edmonton, Then,
Shell oil suggested it would be better for everyone if they built pipelines to
the Gulf Coast to their refineries. West pipelines were never
considered as Shell's gulf refineries already had the market captured.
In a
final analysis, I see the US is in a position to take over our country!
By putting in a Conservative Government again will facilitate the end of our
Dairy Marketing board and any other institutions that may hinder this process.
For the
record: Kenny and Harper were thrown out of every trade meeting they
attended throwing the advantage to the US. No one could be this unlucky!
