Apolitical Staples

Coyne needs to stop writing about Liberals. Almost every time he does he produces nothing but gibberish.

Does that mean we should be saying First Countries instead of First Nations?

The problem with Coyne’s position is that it smacks of PC - no dissent allowed. When can we talk and debate relevant issues like distinct societies, of which I would argue we have about 5 in Canada. Maybe “nations” is the wrong word, but do we have to pull a Kim Campbell and say, “ that’s too complicated to be discussed”. If not now, when?

Quebec is a very difficult problem, I want to keep it in Canada. To do that, I think Canada needs to devolve if we hope to attract competitive capital investment and have efficient government without command and control at the centre. I think Iggy should be allowed to put the term” nation” on the table – even though I don’t agree with it.

“Almost every time he does he produces nothing but gibberish.”

So, Robbo, I trust you will stop writing altogether, no?

I have a bold plan that involves using a whole new word - Province.

I guess the fact that Ignatieff used words that Liberals once scolded Harper for using isn’t yet another example of someone who isn’t quite yet ready for primetime, nor might ever be?

http://tinyurl.com/neoaw

I know it’s not quite on the level of Andrew Coyne’s constitutional analysis. But that never stopped the media, the left, and Liberals from blasting Harper before. It seems to be stopping them from blasting Iggy this time around, however.

Interesting

I’m with Robbo on Coyne. But he isn’t just typing gibberish about the Liberals, he’s typing it pretty much all of the time. And the Liberals themselves are the kings of gibberish.

“so obsessed with soothing particularist grievances as to leave little room for Canada.”

What does he mean, “room for Canada”? Does he mean the federal government? That’s not a thing which needs room or which has rights. Canadians need room and have rights. Coyne is probably thinking, if the nation doesn’t exist, or is considered trivial and unimportant, then where does it leave me, as a national pundit?

The whole political class is obsessed with political entities which are meaningless in the real world at best, but which usually are downright harmful. Entities like “Canada”, “Quebec”, “the party of MacDonald/Trudeau/Douglas”, “the health care system”. They’re obsessed with the political entities and with their own place in those entities, either as a member, a pundit, a kingmaker, whatever. When they talk about “particularist grievances” they don’t mean real problems that people are having, they are talking about the struggles over power and money between political entities.

People who live in the real world are having a hard enough time taking care of themselves and their families. They pay an enormous amount of money for education and health care (sorry - I mean enormous amounts of money are ripped out of their hands) but the school system sucks (except it’s great at being a magnet for murderous psychopaths), and the health care system, well, it’s hard to believe anything so expensive could be so crappy. The question is not, which political entity should be running your life for you, the question is, why does anyone think that they need politicians to dictate to them the most personal and private choices in their lives?

The crappy, harmful federal government, which Coyne thinks “needs more room”, is an entity which is obsessed with race, not because the people in it love or hate any particular race, but because of the power that they can acquire by creating racial divisions and then playing them off against each other. First you get an inquisition about your race at home, then the same government demands to know your race at work - so they can dictate how many “disadvantaged” persons they can force you to hire. It’s the Nuremburg Laws, without the banners and shouting. Same motives, same lies, and in the long term the same result.

Do any of you think that you are “unifying” a people by promoting or defending this or that government entity, when the government entities themselves are only too happy to fracture the electorate and make them hate each other, all in the interest of gathering power and money to its leaders?

Well, Coyne grew up in an establishment Liberal family, and he regards the federal governmnet as, quite literally, his birthright. That’s why, unlike the rest of us, he doesn’t snort in derision as the mere thought of him presuming to tell the rest of us what we must think. He really thinks this is his property and he makes the rules.

My site is the last one I would have thought of as the one to take ridiculous shots at Andrew Coyne but to each their own.