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Come to the following meetings, to be held in Alberta during September, where Doug Christie will speak on “The Petition to Separate and Ralph Klein.”
Sunday, September 19th: Edmonton, Edmonton Inn, 2 pm
Monday, September 20th: Calgary, Inn on Crowchild (5353 Crowchild Tr. NW), 7 pm
By Doug Christie
Each day a new series of letters arrives at our post box. At the present time, we have received 56 declarations seeking incorporation and recognition of the Western Block party. Ninety-five percent of these have been accompanied by a check in the amount of $10 made payable to the Western Block party. Each of these checks and each of the declarations are being stapled together separated by declarant. Each of these checks are not being deposited until we have received at least 250 declarations.
If you have an intention of signing the declaration, and sending $10, please do it as soon as possible. With this Separatist Papers, we are sending another blank declaration so that you can get new and other subscribers. As well, we republish the original explanation for the formation of the Western Block, just before the form. If you have more than one signatory in mind, then please have the form photocopied before you have it signed. And each of us needs to get in about five more subscribers. If you can do this with $10 from each, we will be well on our way. Let's each of us give it a try.
One has to wonder at the level of vigilance or resistance to corruption, which is current among Western Canadians. The typical Liberals like Mr. Ouellet, former Trudeau Cabinet Minister who lives on as president of Canada Post is a classic example. Hundreds of thousands of unaccounted-for personal expenses, trips to Paris for Alphonso Gagliano at post office expense and nobody blushes, least of all Mr. Ouellet. How many hundreds of millions were spent in untendered contracts? We are only left to speculate. We should not be alarmed however, because Glen Clark's NDP government of British Columbia purchased $500,000,000 dollars worth of fast ferries (later sold for $6,000,000 dollars) without contracts and no one got fired.
Perhaps people now are just accustomed to corruption and incompetence. Over time, corruption becomes more acceptable the more it is practiced with impunity. Take for example the F-18A repair contracts, which were the subject of a successful bid by Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg. Well, when we say successful, we mean before Brian Mulroney and the Quebec mafia went to work. It was the bid to do the job for less and would have saved the taxpayers millions. But it was not to be. The contract had to go to Montréal, the home of Gagliano-style politics. Please understand, this is not the people of Québec i.e. separatists. It is the Federalist fraud artists who bow five times per day to Ottawa, the source of all favours.
What was different about that time in the 1980's was the level of public awareness and reaction. The reaction was swift and strong. Western Canada was being robbed and people spoke out. Separatism was revitalized. The atmosphere was electric and memberships to the Western Canada Concept poured in. Contrast that time with today and the Sikorski Helicopter deal worth $4.5 billion. Just look at who gets what: Atlantic Canada's aerospace industry gets $1 billion. Ontario gets $2 billion. Québec gets $1 billion. The West gets $390 million or about 10% of the total contract price. That is for the country worth 30% of the population – 10%!
The more ominous sign in this however is the silence in the West. Other than 25 lines of commentary by Gillian Cosgrave on July 31, 2004 in the National Post, I saw it mentioned no where else. No public outcry exists. Nobody asks why! Stephen Harper is in his usual sober silence. The opposition says nothing in Ottawa. With the level of corruption and division in the Liberal Party on June 28, 2004, if they couldn't win Ontario then, they never will - so silence is probably appropriate for Conservatives. Maybe the Liberals will throw them a small patronage position somewhere down the line if they are nice.
The depressing fact is that Canada's family compact has made corruption so acceptable that all parties actually accept it. For example, SIRC (Security Intelligence Review Committee) the spy regulator of Canada has members from Alliance (Ray Speaker), Baljet Chadha (generous Liberal and NDP donor), Gary Filmon, former Conservative Premier, Roy Romano, former NDP Premier. All tacitly agree to keep Ernst Zundel in jail without charge and with the secret trial like the Star Chamber handled by an ex-Tory Solicitor-General, Pierre Blais. Nothing seems wrong to them. On both issues, the helicopter and the secret trial there appears to be an ominous silence. Well, not from me!
Many times over the last 25 years I have wondered why are there are no Western Canadian political leaders who really stand for what people want? At one time, we had high hopes for Peter Lougheed. After some initial courageous statements he toasted an agreement with the Prime Minister of the day, Trudeau, and that was the end of his Western resistance.
Following him we have the example of Ralph Klein. He pretends to be a man of the people. He is surrounded by very capable political advisers, but he has refused to meet me and receive delivery of the petition which requests the referendum, signed by over 10,000 citizens of the province of Alberta.
The media, as well, are presently ignoring the existence of our petition. That is a good sign. The media are concentrating their attention on new organizations which are involved in mere academic discussions. It is hoped that the Separation Party of Alberta will reverse its stand and support our petition for a referendum on Independence. Even if a Premier rejected the petition of thousands of Albertans, he would lose by so doing, not them. How else can we hope to achieve separation except by a referendum? Why would we ignore the legal solution to the problem?
This unfortunately reminds me of the situation that existed in the November 1980. In order to divert attention from the growing movement called Western Canada Concept, somebody created a diversion called “Rupertsland Independence League.” I recall attending one meeting in the same hotel as I was proposing to meet and when its nonentity “leader” could not sway the audience, I moved the meeting next door and carried on the planning of the November 20<M>th, 1980 rally. It was never heard of again.
Ralph Klein's refusal to meet and receive the petition which we have prepared is an indication of the reluctance of those professional politicians to allow the people any real voice. The same is true of Stephen Harper. Here is an individual who all his life has basically been in politics. In recent days, he has been noticeably silent about the rape of the West in the Sikorski helicopter contract. He has made no reference to the huge influx of public money which will go to Ontario, Québec and the Maritimes at the expense of the Western provinces.
He has recently appointed a Québec separatist to be one of his principal advisers. At the same time, his political party, without a hearing, without notice, and without reasons, summarily expelled me from the new Conservative Party of Canada. This strange phenomenon indicates that Mr. Harper has become a captive to many forces hostile to Western Canada. But nevertheless he is likely to be more successful in Ottawa as a result.
Offending Western Canadians and bribing Quebecers remains the road to success in Ottawa. In this way, we have had Québec Prime Ministers for most of the last hundred years. In this direction, Western Canada can anticipate further taxation and abuse and far less influence in the future.
So looking at the official leaders, Harper, Klein, and previously Peter Lougheed, we see a subordinate attitude is the way to success in Ottawa. It is also the way to success in Western Canada. Many Western Canadians prefer to merely whine and complain but never do anything about their legitimate grievances in Canada.
Then looking at the unofficial leaders, those who today put themselves forward for academic discussions, you have to ask what are they doing? Where are the public meetings and what are they discussing in them? What is their strategy to achieve independence?
If you want authentic Western Canadian leaders, you have to first be a courageous and authentic Western Canadian. You can't play games. You must know what you believe in and be absolutely honest about it. Our organization has continued to meet and advocate our goal for over 25 years. We published regularly the only coherent, consistent, rational analysis from a Western Canadian perspective. We will continue to do so until independence is achieved, come what may.
It was 630 in the morning. It was a beautiful sunny Tuesday morning in August. As is my custom I awoke about 6 AM. I walked with my dog named Angus downhill from the hotel to the public ships' wharf. The boat was tied at the wharf. I saw the captain carefully taking down some of the curtains. I saw him carefully test start two of the boat's engines. I saw him polish the railing. He treated the boat with loving care.
It was 6:30 in the morning. As he gradually untied the front of the boat, he began making telephone calls on his cell phone. I could hear him trying to pick up his messages to arrange the business for the day, at the same time holding the cell phone between his shoulder and his ear so that his hands were free, and he could work the ropes with his hands. It was cold and sometimes his hands slipped on the ropes. Still he talked on the phone.
I wondered how men could work so hard. He would no doubt get a passenger or two in the morning and go out and fish until sundown. Then he would tie up his boat and hopefully get paid. Then he would clean his boat. Then he would clean the fish. Then he would go home to sleep and start again tomorrow. I marvelled at this man, and his simple courage.
I looked down at the front of his boat to see the name: it was called “Free Enterprise”. There was a picture of an Eagle silhouetted beside the words. How strange, I thought. This poor man believes in free enterprise, he is on his cell phone at 6:30 in the morning to try and get a private fishing charter. His was a beautiful boat, fully equipped. There he was testing his engines and equipment, all in the cause of free enterprise.
In Canada however, he will always have an extra unpaid passenger. Every time, he has to provide extra seats, extra life jackets, extra fuel, extra food, extra money for this unpaid passenger on every trip. He has to make sure he has permission from this extra passenger every time he goes out on a charter, even to take other passengers out. When he is out on the water, he has to let this extra passenger come alongside and enter his boat at any time. If this may intimidate his passengers, he must submit. If his extra passenger interrogates him in the presence of his paying passengers, he must submit.
When his other passenger sends him a letter in French or in English, he must respond. His other passenger insists on the right to inspect his boat at all times. He actually must pay to have his other passenger come on board and examine all his equipment. He must work over one-half of the year for his other unpaid passenger. His other passenger can dictate and write complex rules restricting the number of fish his paying passengers may catch and also restricting the number they may keep. His non-paying passenger demands that the boat itself pay taxes on all its fuel. Then the non-paying passenger also regulates and controls all his licenses. In this country the government is his non-paying passenger.
There he is working on his boat that he calls the “Free Enterprise.” He thinks this is <M>his boat. Under this belief, he works maybe 18 hours a day in the hope that he may keep some of his money. When he is out on the water he is the person who must satisfy his paying passengers. His non-paying passenger doesn't need to please anyone. His non-paying passenger gives all the orders.
He must obey, so does he really own the boat he calls “Free Enterprise”? He must work over one-half the year for his unpaid passenger and submit reports to the passenger on forms the non-paying passenger provides. The non-paying passenger calls these forms euphemistically “voluntary returns”, but if he fails to file them, his non-paying passenger has power to put him in jail.
No wonder he's talking on his cell phone at the same time as he tries to untie the ropes. No wonder he looks nervous. Could it be the he's talking to an official disguised as a paying passenger, he seems to wonder?
My mind imagines that perhaps he is only declaring a portion of his money received from paying passengers to his non-paying passenger so the non-paying passenger only gets a smaller “cut” of his flesh. Perhaps that's why he is so nervous. How could he compete with the other charter fishing guides and their boats like “Big Spender'' and “Big Brothers Friend”? These boats, owned by government officials and their friends, do not seem to pay as much taxes as he does. How can he compete with them? All these thoughts run through my mind. Perhaps reality is different.
When he waves his arm to me, he is strangely anxious. Is he hoping that I will be a paying passenger? Is he afraid that I am perhaps the government informant for his unpaid passenger? He looks after me as I walk away with a quizzical, uncertain, and sad expression. Has he lost a customer? Has he been noted on his boat by a government informant? I wonder what he thinks.
I walk away to think for myself. The moment passes. For Western Canadians, the moment never passes. The drain of the unpaid passenger is constantly there. Too many think that the only solution is to surrender to the tyrant. Not for me, I resolve. Independence and a free nation is my goal.
Recently I was in communication with a man who wants annexation with the United States. His name is Gordon Brossick. My first reaction to the idea was negative. Many times I have said it would be better for Western Canada to remain independent, and good friends with United States, rather than be absorbed into the United States with all its inherent problems. Reluctantly I agreed to meeting with him.
What a pleasant surprise it was to meet someone who was so bright and cheerful. He had been educated for sometime in Texas. He espouses many of the ideas of freedom which are so typical of Americans. He has a positive attitude. He has an attitude that says “We can do it!” He has been in contact with the government of Alaska, and has contacts within the United States. His plans would be to offer Alaska a land access through British Columbia to the United States. He believes Alaska would pay enormously for the privilege of controlling a corridor in which it would have duty-free transportation rights.
He is full of enthusiasm for this idea. I had the pleasure of meeting in Abbotsford when I was attending in the British Columbia Summer Games. Everything about his attitude was so contrary to the Canadian way. He was very positive about life. He radiated optimism. This is probably the results of the fact that he has the attitude of the “land of the free.”
Canada, on the other hand is dominated in outlook by the idea of the family compact, superior to everything, including freedom. All political parties in Canada basically are duplicates of each other. They all reflect the socialist, government-oriented mentality which says “I cannot do it; only the government can do anything.”
For this same reason, free enterprise in Canada is dying. For this same reason, we're a second-rate nation. For this same reason, we will never develop our own secondary industry while we remain in Canada, run by the family compact in Ottawa, who bribe and control all public activity from coast to coast.
If we really had to choose between continued domination by the family compact or in the alternative to live in the land of the free , what would we have to lose by joining the United States? At one time, I would have had a long list of answers. I would have preferred the common-law tradition of the British Empire. I would have referred to the great history of the parliamentary system. I would have referred to the great military history of Britain, of which we could be greatly proud. However all those are things of the past. Britain has joined the European union. The British Empire is no more. The common law is being superseded every day by judicial interpretation, centered on the Charter, out of political expediency. The concept of individual liberty seems dead in Canada.
The only people happy about this are people like Ken Ritter, chairman of the Canadian Wheat Board, or some flunky in the Canadian Radio and Television Commission that censor radio stations. There are so many bureaucracies we really don't know which one does what.
We have a bureaucracy to control everything we do. And we have a tax collector looking over every shoulder. We have a tax on every purchase. We have a tax on all goods or services. We regulate the ownership of every gun. We control every driver's license. We have information on your medical history, and we will share it with every government agency upon request. We know every time you leave the country with more than $10,000.
In every public reference, you will be obliged to speak well of same-sex marriage, abortion, homosexuality, multiculturalism, multiracial societies, and you will obey the state religion of “tolerance” to all forms of alternative lifestyle, even if it violates your most dearly-held religious or philosophical beliefs. You will do this in both official languages, upon demand, if you wish to become anything more than the lowest slave.
This is what Canada has become under the perpetual domination of the family compact. To lose this and join United States I have finally concluded would not be a disaster either for us, but more for the United States. No country's perfect, but few are as smugly oppressive as Canada.
Deconstruction is a modern word. In simple language, it means “to take apart.” The Liberal party, with its central power base in Toronto, has been deconstructing Canada for several decades. Traditional Canada is under attack. The unelected judiciary appears to be one of the main instruments of this process.
Recently we have seen Canada's failure at the Olympic games. These two phenomenon are connected. They are based on the fact that Canada has politicized everything under the control of the Liberal party.
Let me explain: Canadians today make every decision based on political expediency and “demographics.” It's the buddy system in action. You are my buddy and I look after you and no matter what you do and no matter how incompetent you may be. The Liberal party is built on the same principle.
This is also true in the world of sports. I have had some experience as the president of the local water polo club and realize that Vancouver runs everything in its own interests. If an outsider like a club from Victoria was going to win, the goalposts are simply moved. The referees are controlled, and the referees decide who wins by imposing penalties at appropriate times on appropriately successful athletes. The same is true in the judiciary of Canada. If you are on the side of the politically correct, the judges can decide you win your case. Most judges try to do their honest best in difficult circumstances, but on moral issues, where can they turn but to their own beliefs? This doesn't produce the best results in the sports field nor does it produce the best results in the legal field, but that's how Canada operates.
The Minister of Justice has recently announced the two appointees to the Supreme Court of Canada. In doing so he solemnly announced “it was merit that determined the two outstanding nominees whose names I share with you this morning. We did not inquire into issues of ideology, gender, or whatever.” Obviously they didn't have to inquire. The gender was obvious and the ideology was well-known. One could categorize the two appointees, Abella J. and Charron J. as being on the ideological left-wing. They both have upheld same-sex marriage rights. One has even lowered the age of consent for anal intercourse and is recognized as the founder and creator of the term “employment equity”.
Mr. Cotler should win a gold medal for the brazen hypocrisy of this statement. This would be one of the few gold medals Canada could ever expect to win. You will notice that any gold medals that we do win will be in individual sports. It is only individuals in Canada who are expected to achieve merit in sport. In team sports, politics prevails. In legal appointments, politics is the key.
This state of affairs is absolutely unstoppable without separation. The Liberal party appoints the judges and the judges ratify the Liberal party decisions on controversial issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion. They all equally agrees that religion has no place in politics. What moral values are left? With the definition of “racism” ever expanding, how does Canada protect its culture from massive Third World immigration and the resultant alteration of our cultural values? The Canadian way has nothing to do with merit and everything to do with politics. Every Liberal realizes that their political success rests on their popularity with Third World immigrants, who overwhelmingly support the Liberal party.
Clearly, we are about to observe a judicial deconstruction of the traditional moral values of Canadian society. The politicians of every stripe, anxious to avoid controversy, just like Paul Martin, can throw up their hands and say “the judges have ruled that protecting these values would be unconstitutional, therefore we have no choice; it's not our fault.”
This cowardly and evasive argument stands on a false premise. What makes anyone think the judges are especially skilled in determining moral issues?
Too many judges are basically political lawyers who have ingratiated themselves either with the party in power, the Liberal party, or with the legal establishment of the various law societies. Liberal lawyers who receive lucrative government contracts can therefore can take part in law society politics which is largely nonremunerative. In either case, the Liberal party and Liberal philosophy is the power base to which a prospective judge must appeal. Do judges have any special training, skill, or ability to determine moral issues? Are they required to study philosophy?
Is it not true that some are even required, after appointments, or shall we say <M>well advised, to take a form of sensitivity training on gender, race, sexual orientation issues. These training sessions are usually run by advocates for special interest groups in the guise of “equity.” If any judge should ever express even moderately a politically incorrect view, he or she can count on the special interest groups to launch a complaint with the judicial council. This body is made up entirely of judges already appointed by the same process. They will enforce the politically correct biases and maintain the status quo on the absence of any moral absolutes, which are anathema to the multicultural society. Group think is a systemic pre-requisite to judicial collegiality. So just how are judges qualified to decide in moral issues?
No one in the appointment process will be allowed to ask the important questions: What is your position on the concept of individual liberty? Do you hold any values at all? What values do you hold dear? What religious values, if any, do you espouse? What sexual, religious, or moral preferences do you espouse? What training in philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, or history have you had? What knowledge do you have of the classics, of John Stuart Mill, of Plato, of Aristotle, of Hobbs, of Locke, of Cicero or any of the great classical philosophers and thinkers? What do think of various historical movements such as Marxism, libertarianism, socialism, national socialism, liberalism or conservatism?
There are one million more questions we are never allowed to ask. Neither are our members of Parliament. Yet all these questions would point to the religious, moral, ethical, and political prejudices of the prospective candidates which they will be allowed to exercise without any legislative scrutiny or accountability. They will decide the destiny of societies moral values and the future of freedom in society.
“How dare you to ask!” was the essential jist of recent statements by the Chief Justice of Canada in explaining why Parliament should have no control over the appointment process. The explanation was that the appointment process would become politicized. Obviously with the appointments made by Paul Martin, politics is the essential element. He even had the Justice Minister announce it.
What has this got to do with western separatists? Well obviously either you trust your destiny to unelected officials, appointed in a backroom process by the Prime Minister and Minister of Justice as things stand, or separation is necessary.
If you think it's okay to tolerate judicial administration of the moral standards of society, just wait until you see the results. By then it will be too late. Free speech equals hate speech. Criticism will be abolished. Any objections to the deconstruction of Canada will be treated more severely than violent crime. We are required to trust that some knowledge possessed by the Prime Minister and Minister of Justice alone is sufficient to select the best candidate. We are never to be so churlish as to ask.
After all, this is Canada; trust your betters; be quiet, know your place; and if you come before these judges, you will know their wrath if you dare to question their competence, so best to shut up. The family compact makes the decisions. The political parties play the game. The media presents the message that all is well in the multicultural socialist paradise.
This is after all the Canadian, socialist, submissive, egalitarian way. Politics over all. Principles, history, classical philosophy, morals, religion, ethics, all are irrelevant. They are strictly personal, private and hence secret matters. If you object you might end up in a secret trial, labelled a threat to national security. After all no violence is required, just dangerous opinions, as Ernst Zundel's case demonstrates. Keep them to yourselves and you will be safe. Open your mouth and you have trouble and will never go anywhere in the Canadian establishment.
For those of you foolish enough to believe that this analysis is radical, just wait and see, as Mr. Trudeau used to say. If you are clinging to traditional Canada as a western Canadian out of some misguided sense of loyalty, I'm here to tell you, traditional Canada has been blown to bits, or rather, “deconstructed.”
The recent election demonstrated how futile it is to create a federal party that tries to bridge the gap between Ontario and the West. To do so, Stephen Harper campaigned largely in Ontario and took the West for granted. He now proposes to move the party more “to the centre” and away from Western values.
Why should the Conservatives be able to take the West for granted? What difference does it make if we split the Conservative vote; no Conservative worthy of the name will ever succeed in Toronto where it counts, anyway. So why not create a federal party the West can really vote for with separation as a real federal option?
If you subscribe to the idea of creating a federal party known as the Western Block Party, on the back page of this newsletter is a form entitled “Application to Register a Political Party” which I ask you to fill in with your name, address and signature and date.
As well, send a cheque in the amount of $10.00 made out to the “Western Block Party.” If we receive this form signed by 250 registered electors, we will be well on our way to registration. Send the completed form and your cheque to: Western Block, Box 101, 255 Menzies Street, Victoria, B.C. V8V 2G6.