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Senate Scandal: The Federal Conservative Failure

Published May 22, 2013 by Frank Hilliard Filed Under: Ethics in Politics, Political Corruption, Politics


by Frank Hilliard
Senator-Mike-DuffyMike Duffy, my old colleague from CBC’s Ottawa Bureau, is the latest failure of the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper who appointed him.  He is not the most important because one man can only spend so much on himself. However, he is symbolic; symbolic of the surprising fact he is not alone among policy failures.

Canadians think of the Conservatives as being competent stewards of the national economy and the public purse. We can now see, in the flesh so to speak, that public money has gone to the wrong places, that public policy is in disarray and that the country is heading in the wrong direction. Our Prime Minister is currently en route to, of all places, Peru; a country most Canadians would have difficulty finding on a map. He is doing so in the mistaken belief free trade will help Canada in the 21st Century.

In fact, free trade has gutted much of Canada’s manufacturing sector, destroying hundreds of thousands of well paying jobs in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. The current Ford Fiesta, for example, comes to us from Mexico where labour rates are a fraction of those in Brampton or Oshawa. That’s great for Mexico; not good for Canada, which has to allow them in duty free because of NAFTA.

Let’s, for a moment, accept the argument Canadians should be hewers of wood and carriers of water. Let’s agree selling our resources to the highest bidder is better than using them ourselves. What do you make of the Federal Government’s refusal to call the Northern Gateway Pipeline a national defence project and scrap all the environmental and land claim impediments currently in its path? If we are to sell our oil to China, why aren’t we moving it to BC? Who’s job is it to get it there? Who, not to put too fine a point on it, is in charge in Ottawa?

You can’t have it both ways Stephen; if we are going to live on oil exports, we need to export oil. There is no way to dodge this one; flying off to Lima isn’t going to help.

President Eisenhower created the U.S. Interstate Highway System by calling it a ‘defense project.’ In fact the actual name of the system is the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Prime Minister Harper could have done the same thing with the pipeline, but he has not. I’ll bet the idea never occurred to him.

But there’s more. Canada is currently importing more than half a million foreigners every year as refugees, immigrants, temporary foreign workers and through inter-company transfers. Why? For what purpose? Is this open-door immigration policy, the highest per-capita in the G8, not creating direct competition with native-born workers? Does it not depress wages? Does it not hamper automation of labour-intensive industries?  Well, of course; but hey, it’s the federal government’s policy and, as we are repeatedly told, Conservatives know what they’re doing with the economy.

Still more. What on earth is going on with our defence procurement programs?  Our fighters are grossly. shamelessly over budget. Our northern patrol craft cost more to design that it cost Norway and Denmark to build! Accountability? This is just waste, waste, waste and gross incompetence.

Canada could build its own fighter aircraft cheaper and better than the F-35 but the federal Conservatives have laughed off the idea. Well they might since they were the ones who killed the original Avro Arrow back in 1959 and threw 15,528 people out of work in a single day. Don’t think we haven’t forgotten that day in Canadian history.

Mike, my old buddy, you’re a piker compared to Peter MacKay. If you want to see a real drain on the public purse trot over to National Defence (which should be called National Expense) and watch them do it over there.

There are more examples of Conservative economic failure but I’m starting to beat a dead horse. Conservatives across the Canada must be wondering who to vote for in the next election.

Since we no longer have a conservative party in Canada or a Conservative government in Ottawa. We have another bunch of Liberal free traders, another group of carpetbaggers sellout us out.
© Frank Hilliard, 2013 Reprinted with Permission
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Note: For more reading on the later question, here’s a link to the Ludwig von Mises Institute and an article on free trade. Note particularly this paragraph:

Under a system of completely free trade, capital and labor would be employed wherever conditions are most favorable for production. Other locations would be used as long as it was still possible to produce anywhere under more favorable conditions. To the extent to which, as a result of the development of the means of transportation, improvements in technology, and more thorough exploration of countries newly opened to commerce, it is discovered that there are sites more favorable for production than those currently being used, production shifts to these localities.

When it says “other locations” it means Asia. When it says “countries newly opened to commerce” it means Asia. When it says “sites more favourable to production” it means Asia. When it says “production shifts to these localities” it means companies move to Asia and take their jobs with them. This is Conservative policy and it’s killing us.

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    Frank Hilliard

    Frank Hilliard is a former newspaper reporter, wire service editor and national television journalist. He was, briefly, Manager of Media Relations for Canada Post. His last job before retirement was as a web-database integrator for three Canadian cancer agencies. He is the author of several books, including Home Invasion Prevention, A Sheik in Manhattan and A Very Romantic Murder, all available at Lulu.com He was Campaign Manager for Mischa Popoff, an independent candidate in Boundary-Similkameen in the 2013 B.C. provincial election.

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Comments

  1. jeff says

    May 22, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    well, we again see that the is no difference between liberals and neo-cons. they are both working for the jews that pull the strings of media and supply the money for campaigns.
    to divide is to conquer, and the zionists know the game well. export jobs, import minorities, fill the media with debauchery and propaganda; and at that point the nationals are displaced and disconnected from their roots and senses, and the infiltrator zionist jews run the show with a few traitors of other ethnic groups in their midst.
    its quite simple, yet obviously also quite effective.
    and most of us still sleep right through it thinking that so say such would “anti-semitism”.
    as if the allies in world war 2 only bombed “nazis”, and not other germans, italians, and asians.
    if you were a citizen and/or a supporter of the government of the axis powers, you were a fit target; yet when it comes to jews and israel, we act completely different…. and irrationally, i might add.

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  2. Sustainably Betrayed says

    May 29, 2013 at 9:14 pm

    While the media still favours the descriptor “the Harper-led Tories”, Canada’s betrayed “human resources” now refer to this Whig-Tory, Same-Old-Story bunch as “the David Suzuki Foundation-led Tories”.

    Here’s why:
    http://thebiggreenlie.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/how-young-minds-are-being-poisoned-by-green-activists/#comment-7149

    Down the UN’s Agenda 21/Sustainable Development rabbit-hole we go.

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  3. Sustainably Betrayed says

    May 30, 2013 at 6:16 am

    “Conservatives across the Canada must be wondering who to vote for in the next election.”

    I saw this sentiment recently expressed in different words, here:
    http://www.masterresource.org/2013/05/deep-ecology-versus-energy/#comment-42467

    The “David Suzuki Foundation-led Tories” apparently adopted the political leanings of Maurice Strong, who reportedly explained it to McLeans in 1976 like this: “…a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology”

    James Delingpole explained the effect of their “local” implementation of Agenda 21 on a global basis, like this:
    http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/james-delingpole/7045153/communitarianism-is-a-freedomhating-totalitarian-philosophy-like-any-other/

    Nikki Rapaana explained this new-fangled Communitarian ideology that “centrist” parties world-wide adopted (also promoted as Political Triangulation/ Third Way/ Social Democracy) like this:
    http://www.newswithviews.com/Raapana/niki4.htm

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  4. Sustainably Betrayed says

    May 30, 2013 at 6:43 am

    fyi: I see Canadian researchers have been publicly sharing their findings on Rosa’s “Is UN Agenda 21 in Canada?” page as well – scroll down for linkage to download the invaluable “primer” published in 1994, for assisting Municipal councils nation-wide with their implementation of Local Agenda 21/ Sustainable Development:
    http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/1/post/2012/03/is-un-agenda-21-in-canada.html

    And the “Back Off” anti-bullying sentiment is mounting as swiftly as the fury accompanying awareness, Ontario-wide:
    http://www.yourottawaregion.com/news/article/1619776–beware-of-agenda-21-says-goshen-resident

    http://ontariolandowners.ca/news/new-ola-litigation-fund/

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