Barack Obama has had his first press conference as President elect. All Canadian media commentators are preaching a wait and see approach. While President elect Obama has to put up with the Bush administration until January before acting, Canadians don’t.
The preoccupation of the media with the internal situation in the USA is a plea to Canadians to allow Prime Minister Harper to defer solutions to our urgent problems until Barack Obama and his advisors tells him what they will permit him to do.
No government in the world is sitting and waiting to see what the next US administration will allow them to do with such timorous and demeaning servility as our own. That also goes for the opposition parties as well.
The challenge confronting Canadian workers and farmers is not to allow a minority government to hide behind the latest “US love in” as an excuse for doing nothing.
Inaction is not an option for labour and working people as they lose their jobs in the tens of thousands.
There is a made-in-Canada solution to re-start the economy, end de-industrialization and stop the sell out of our dwindling energy resources. The problem is to organize a people’s movement that will fight for it.
The dignity of our country and its survival as an independent country depends on it.
The preoccupation of the media with the internal situation in the USA is a plea to Canadians to allow Prime Minister Harper to defer solutions to our urgent problems until Barack Obama and his advisors tells him what they will permit him to do.
No government in the world is sitting and waiting to see what the next US administration will allow them to do with such timorous and demeaning servility as our own. That also goes for the opposition parties as well.
The challenge confronting Canadian workers and farmers is not to allow a minority government to hide behind the latest “US love in” as an excuse for doing nothing.
Inaction is not an option for labour and working people as they lose their jobs in the tens of thousands.
There is a made-in-Canada solution to re-start the economy, end de-industrialization and stop the sell out of our dwindling energy resources. The problem is to organize a people’s movement that will fight for it.
The dignity of our country and its survival as an independent country depends on it.
1 comment:
Don
I would be interested in your thoughts on Canada making an approach to the EU as a counterbalance to our North Am integration. Andrew Coyne and Jean Charest have both been raising the idea...
Also, about Afghanistan: the peace movement in Canada seems to me to be abysmally inactive to get our troops home in 2009. or at least out of combat roles. Teach ins and coffee and cookie events, marches that get only 1/10 of the people who come to Remembrance Day ... these are like dance steps we do, and the other side says, good for you for exercising your free speech rights.
i am growing impatient for a more proactive strategy. You?
charles
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