I can hear many of you now ...'Mad Max' ...Who Dat?
And I cannot blame you for not knowing since 'Mad Max' ...along with a dozen others... are vying for the low key Conservative Leadership in Canada's Federal Parliament.
Some of you will remember that at year's beginning, I swore off blogging on Canada for no other good reason than nothing much worthwhile comes out from here especially given that the Progressive Liberals are in charge Federally and in our major Provinces.
But I am getting desperate looking for something of interest to write about... foot in the mouth Trump, the N. Korea Wing-nut 'Yung-un' , Russian Hacking etc etc are wearing a little thin.
So dear reader, back briefly to Canada and to 'Mad Max'.
The end of this Leadership Race has already begun in that Ballots have been mailed to the over 250,000 voters with many already completed and returned. The results though will not be announced until Saturday May 27th. Sadly, the Election itself has as much interest and suspense as a Saturday Night laundromat.
Indeed, the balloting / voting is such a convoluted ordeal that future Pol'y Sci courses will hold it out as a classic example of how not to pick a Party Leader. But that is another story that will have to wait ...perhaps indefinitely.
But before I move on though there is one very bizarre occurrence in this race that needs to be highlighted; just last week the Candidate with a substantial lead in the Polls withdrew and in doing so, pledged his support to Mad Max guaranteeing MM the Leadership. It would be like Hillary throwing her delegates to the Leftist Professor Bernie Sanders in the week before last November's US Election.
So it will be Mad Max Bernier in a walk and since he is a self-professed Libertarian he is my man all the way.
His focus on less government and less taxes will make the Progressives go apoplectic. It will also re-energize our economy and allow our citizenry to keep more of their hard-earned money. How Novel.
In this respect, Bernier is the only Conservative..indeed the only fiscal conservative in the Race since, for the most part, the remaining 12 are little more than Liberals in Sheep's Clothing. To prove this let's take a look at the Three who are nearest him according to the polls:
Erin O'Toole - he supports, as do the Progressive Liberals, Marketing Boards which have the effect of raising prices while diminishing quality. He also prides himself on being the 'voice of the social conservatives' and yet he has no time whatsoever for the two issues of most importance to us Social Cons ...namely unrestricted abortion ...up to and including the time of birth, and eliminating legalized death heretofore known rightly as murder. Some spokesperson. The two candidates who really do speak for the Social Conservatives are Brad Trost and Pierre Lemieux sadly neither of them have a chance precisely because of their social conservative leanings. Pity!
Andrew Scheer - Like O'Toole, he has made it clear that he will not deal with the Social Conservative issues of Unrestriced Abortion and Legalized Death despite the fact that he prides himself as being a devout Catholic. He too is all in favour of Progressive Marketing Boards. and finally,
Michael Chong - This is perhaps the saddest case amongst the Baker's Dozen. Chong is one of the only Cabinet Ministers I can every recall who resigned his top spot on a matter of conscience. Not only that but he then went on to champion measures to enhance the power of the lowly Member of Parliament...in other words to help restore democracy at a time when it is ever more in short supply. But then he blew it; during this Leadership Campaign he came out in favour of imposing Carbon Tax. Our Progressive Liberal Prime Minister likes such a tax as did former President Obama but ...True Tories (Conservatives) are dead against it. He could have been first but will be lucky to finish in the top half.
The remainder have though put forward some worthwhile suggestions as follows:
- Dismantle Native Reserves (Blaney)
- Ban the Niqab in Public Service (Blaney)
- Dismantle the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (Leitch)*
- Legalize Pepper Spray for personal protection (Leitch)
- Test Immigrants for Canadian Values (Leitch)
- Make Sex Selection illegal in the case of Abortion (Lemieux)
- Institute Term Limits for the Supreme Court (Lemieux)
- Eliminate Corporate Income Tax (Peterson)
- Undertake Massive Grassroots to develop Party Policy (Raitt)
- Balance the Budget (Saxton)
- Allow off duty police to carry concealed weapons (Trost)
- Don't use taxpayers money to fund gay pride parades (Trost)
- Retain the Traditional meaning of Marriage (Trost)
- Add Property Rights to the Constitution (Scheer)
*Kellie Leitch is not only a pediatric surgeon she is also the most rounded conservative in the mix ...i.e. both a fiscal and a social conservative.
I personally support all of these proposals. Too bad there wasn't one candidate who supported them all too. He or she would have my vote.
In the meantime, I'll vote for 'Mad Max' ...the winner on May 27/17.
As I see it...
'K.D. Galagher'
I personally support all of these proposals. Too bad there wasn't one candidate who supported them all too. He or she would have my vote.
In the meantime, I'll vote for 'Mad Max' ...the winner on May 27/17.
As I see it...
'K.D. Galagher'
