Vol. XXII, Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 4, January, February, March & April 2004
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We're back. After the past eight months during which I have been undergoing treatment for breast cancer, we are now getting back on our regular schedule of publishing and hope to be with you monthly, as usual, to comment on the interesting events happening daily in Western Canada, and to point out the reasons why the West needs to be its own nation and not part of the country that seems to be defined by such events as the Sponsorship Scandal.
Spring is here, and everywhere across the West it appears that sentiment for Independence is growing once more, with the revelations of the ongoing corruption on the federal scene. Many people seem to be rethinking their commitment to Canada, as witnessed by our mail and email, and telephone inquiries.
Thanks for all the cards, letters and concern that I have received during the past months. I wanted to let you know that I am back getting on my feet again, and still working for Western Independence.
Keltie Zubko
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“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
Giordano Bruno, (1548-1699), Source: On Shadows of Ideas
“It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.”
Fredrich August von Hayek, (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (1821-1881), Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.”
Henrik Ibsen, (1828-1906), Source: Pillars of Society, 1877
By Doug Christie
Chuck Cadman, a former Reform Alliance M.P. since his son as murdered in 1992, is being removed as a conservative candidate by Mr. Cheema. Once again we see what the newspapers euphemistically call ethnic politics, but in actuality is racial or tribal politics. This phenomenon was very visible in the NDP as Mr. Dosanjh took over the leadership of the NDP. It is very obvious within the Liberal party as former executive assistant to cabinet minister Gary Collins, Dave Basi and his Sikh friends controlled the Liberal party nominating process on southern Vancouver Island. Anyone who dares to observe this phenomenon much less comment on it adversely is immediately branded racist. There is no logic to the charge, but it silences the people who dare to cry fire in an arsonist's convention.
The Liberal party always thought it was sort of cute and Quebec politicians used to particularly gloat at the influx of new cultures under the guise of “multiculturalism.” The opponents of this process were quickly labelled racist and Reform/Alliance/Conservative pretenders to power knew they couldn't beat them so they decided to join them. By join them I mean sign them up and let them take over.
By this means we were to create a “big tent” and show we were not racist by having as many visible minority faces in our caucus as the other side. This eventually meant we had to confer sanctity on visible minority status. Thus the charge of racism hastened the demise of the dominant culture. Even now and more so in the future we are to be stung with the realization that the visible minority crowd can become and is becoming an intolerant mob or better yet an organized army bent on takeover and not assimilation. Most nomination meetings in certain areas where certain tribes have established a beachhead have deteriorated into race-based contests. Some are even conducted in Cantonese or Punjabi.
This phenomenon effectively freezes out those of us who don't speak foreign languages from the political process. The effect will only increase racial tension and not diminish it. The further effect is that nominating meetings where party candidates for the ruling party becomes virtually certain of victory become ideal places for mafia-style distribution of public money a la Alphonse Gagliano.
Corruption of public life is a pandemic in Canada. Quebec was and is the breeding ground for this process. The Punjabi gangs of Vancouver are not far behind. Murder by racial gang has already happened with a bat in the schoolyard where a young Philippino boy was beaten to death in broad daylight. In Victoria, Trevor McCallum was similarly blown apart by a shotgun and machete attack by a vanload of Vietnamese youth. Racial gangs are the legacy of our open door immigration policy. Multiculturalism is a recipe for race-based mafias.
And Canada is going full speed in this direction. Jamaican gangs in Toronto routinely shoot people with unregistered guns, but every hunter in Bragg Creek Alberta must register his rifle as a result at a cost of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. The hate laws and anti-discrimination police spend millions and frighten us all so we may not speak about what's happening to our country while the rape is in progress.
What can be done? Simply put, Canada is finished. The use to which it can be put for any collective good is totally past. It needs to be scrapped as a political institution and a new one developed where a common culture and values are a condition of membership. At least tacit approval should be necessary or loyalty cannot be expected. Perhaps we should need to pass an exam in English before we can vote!
Day after day Canadians are expected to report themselves to pay their income tax while politicians funnel millions to their friends and Prime Ministers keep their assets offshore. The way our cities and political parties are being taken over is a shocking abuse of our tax dollars but we are expected to shut up and say nothing or else we are taken before a human rights tribunal where the subjective feelings of some ethnic group are paramount and truth is no defence. In the face of these circumstances some total naïve people still maintain that Canada is the best place to live.
Our over-stretched military are not able to defend our coasts from invading hoards of boat people or to save fishermen drowning 100 miles off Port Hardy but they are expected to keep the peace in Cypress, Afghanistan or Haiti and the Canadian taxpayer is expected to pay for this without question.
The situation is unfair for people who immigrate here under the false promise of a better life. It is unfair for our children, burdened with debts and high taxes. It is unfair to our language culture and way of life. Our hard-earned property is being destroyed and polluted by rapidly expanding growth and demands for water, land and places to pollute and dump garbage. The legacy of the current policy of Ottawa will be rap noise, bankruptcy, taxes, repressive laws and a police state. Canada is not tolerable to those of us born here who can still think.
One of the effects of publishing regularly and monthly is that you cover a short period of time to report or comment. We gradually become complacent and accept the few deteriorations and calamities, which befall us politically. In fact, we actually become enablers for the deconstruction of our civilization. We report on a few corruptions and frivolous expenditures each month. We lament them. People say tsk tsk or ho-hum and move on. We have sounded the alarm quietly. We have called wolf once again. People are somehow lulled into complacency.
On the other hand, when our observations are delayed for a longer period of time as it has been before this publication, the enormity of the deterioration becomes all the more alarming. It is our duty to do what we can. It is an emergency. Canada is a disaster, economically, socially, culturally and spiritually.
There is no need for violence. We have a legal mechanism for effective change by democratic means. The Clarity Act has made separation a legal right with a legal remedy. We simply need to educate our fellow citizens. We need to maintain the true course for a long time. In the development of nations, my struggle from 1978 to 2004 has not really been a long time. We are on the right track. Every day from corruption in Quebec to the chaos in the military, to the collapse of the Reform movement, gradually everyone is seeing what was obvious in 1978. We have merely to keep telling the truth.
Belinda Stronach has found thousands of her new members have been rejected by the party computer. This points to the fact that computers have become a new means of controlling and corrupting politics. More than anything else it shows us how third world we have become. The electoral process has been regarded as inviolate and trustworthy just like our judiciary. No longer. The judiciary have been politicized by giving them the power to decide what is demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society. The electoral process has now been reduced to another political process with the person in power being able to control the outcome of an election.
The Governor General looks like a Queen of Hearts in the mad hatter's tea party, travels the world as a vice regal travelling comedy show and sitting smilingly next to Istvan Kantor, the blood smatterer who screams obscenities. She is a disgrace to the office. Emperor Jean Chrétien left us his horse, not as a senator but as governor general to disgrace the monarchy once and for all.
A man is found dead in his trailer in Nanaimo, badly decomposed, after being ignored for three years. Who is it that discovers him and never quits looking? His neighbours? His church? His family? No! CCRA, formerly known as Revenue Canada. They want to know why he hasn't filed his tax return. Fortunately for him, where he has gone, he cannot be prosecuted. Everyone else beware Big Brother!
It seems a lot longer but it has only been one year and a month since we launched our petition to have a Clarity Act referendum in each Western province. We have accumulated about 10,000 signatures in Alberta. Lately they have slowed down considerably.
One wonders how things will change unless we change them. Reform became the Alliance, which became the Democratic Reformed Alliance, which became the Conservative Party with Stephen Harper reborn as a Torontonian. Well, we have stayed an honourable and steady course. Canada is finished, collapsed under the weight of its own corruption.
We will try to present our Alberta signatures to the Premier in the month of April. The federal election, which everyone is waiting for, will only demonstrate that the west cannot get anywhere without self-determination. The rising price for oil should bring on another attack on Alberta and Newfoundland. Therefore we will see a resurgence of separatism soon. The times are moving in our direction. Soon we will have a great opportunity. The people will be very angry when they realize how Reform was a waste of time and the Conservative party is really just Toronto all over again.
If you would like to be present when we present our petition to the Premier of Alberta in April, let us know. We will have a rally to commemorate this event in Edmonton. The only thing required is a date with the Premier, if he is willing to receive us.
The real danger of a corrupt system and the one thing that makes real reform impossible is the naïve belief that changing the players in the game will solve the problem. Thus when the people caught on to the nature of Trudeau's particular brand of corruption, we were invited to trust Brian Mulroney, and we did. When we finally saw through him, we were encouraged to believe Jean Chrétien would be better. Now we see from Alfonse Gagliano to Pelletier at Via Rail, to procurement contracts at Public Works that Jean Chrétien, if anything, was a bigger crook than his predecessors.
To be fair, they always use a scapegoat in the transfer process. Thus we see John Turner, between Trudeau and Mulroney and Kim Campbell between Mulroney and Chrétien. Probably Martin is between Chrétien and Harper. But all these were made captain of the Titanic just before the iceberg.
The system never changes: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa always rule. Patronage is the reason for politics. Success is deception. Victory to the best deceiver. To the victor the spoils of the public purse.
What we must do is keep the focus on the cause, which is the political system in Canada, the absence of a regionally elected senate, or the control of judges through election. But this will never happen in Canada until we create a new political and constitutional model it would be insane to expect different results.
The early founders of the American Republic had a wisdom beyond their time. This was caused by the fact that they all possessed a classical knowledge or education. They realized that the downfall of the Roman Empire was the result of uncontrolled expansionism and unchecked immigration. As a result they resisted the temptation to engage in foreign wars themselves and rather cultivated their own garden in North America.
The Monroe Doctrine was a direct result of this philosophy. One half of the Monroe Doctrine forbade European intervention in the Americas (North or South). The other half forbade American intervention in the rest of the world. The other half has been ignored in the last hundred years to American loss.
The best reason for the growing opposition to the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has little to do with the issues of those places but more to do with the danger it poses to American life at home, both social, economic and political.
The cost of foreign wars crippled Rome. The cost of foreign wars will cripple, tax and harm American. Canada too is becoming a rather unwilling partner in this futile enterprise. Foreign trade is not advanced. Foreign aid is more often required where an Imperial Army occupies and destroys local ethnic balance and trade. For this reason American and Canada would be wise to reconsider their foreign and international expansion and rather look to their more immediate interest.
The expansion of the state, the destruction of individual liberty, the increase of heavy tax burdens and the rising risk of violence around the world are the true fruits of either United Nations or unilateral intervention in the affairs of others. Thus an intelligent debate of foreign policy and the role of our military is essential and is being studiously avoided by our pretend politicians in the shadow world of puppet politicians in the New World Order. (This should be spelt “paliticians” since they all love each other.)
A good indication of a deteriorated political institution is the calibre of the people it attracts for leadership roles. For example, the nation of Scotland in the period 1296 to 1323 attracted brave and capable leaders in William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, even though it was a nation divided, struggling and suffering. The risks of assuming leadership and failing were death and a horrible one as Wallace experienced, and Bruce's brothers suffered, along with his wife and daughter.
However the political institution was as vital as the courage of those men. Nineteenth century England produced the Duke of Wellington and Horatio Nelson, for example. The Eighteenth century produced George Washington, Jefferson, Paine and others willing to risk their lives. The first half of the Twentieth century produced great leaders of character and vision. Today Canada cannot safely defend Hans Island from the great power of Denmark. Doesn't this tell you everything you need to know?
On March 20<M>th, 2004, we in the non-Liberal, non-NDP persuasion got to chose between the mighty giant souls of Stephen Harper, Belinda Stronach and Tony Clement, all three sounding like contenders for high school president with the first very sure he is going to win. Even voting becomes an insurmountable problem as someone from Victoria is registered in Vancouver Kingsway. The new political party has learned one thing for sure, though: Don't let the people know who is running the election. Don't let them know Ontario and Quebec will decide who wins.
When I phoned the number in Ottawa the young lady from Stephen Harper's campaign gave me to let me know where I could vote, the nice man in Ottawa told me I was registered in Vancouver Kingsway by some mistake and that only there could I vote. He also reminded me that I would have to vote early between 7:00 am and 11:00 am “Because we are voting at the same time all across the country.” I said, “Oh, so we won't know the results when the polls close in Ontario, where you have 103 seats.” He said, “It's 106 now after redistribution, and we now have three more. B.C. gets 2 more. We are going to the polls on the basis of redistribution, although it only takes effect after April 1, 2004.”
What this tells me is that the inevitable has already happened to Stephen Harper: Ontario will be where he has to win or lose and we will not be allowed to realize this because we will get all the results at once and not just as each time zone reaches closing time at the polls. The art of deception combined with the art of running Canada from Ontario and Quebec. Stephen Harper after all was born in Toronto. He passed through Calgary on his way to Ottawa. The west gets what it deserves when it relies on people like Stephen Harper for leadership and he gets what he deserves when he goes to Ontario on both knees. Neither gets my respect.
Deborah Grey is retiring from federal politics. A person who has been in Ottawa 15 years has achieved much, for herself. She will have a large pension for life. She has the admiration of the media. She will be quoted and respected for years. She has a national presence. But what has changed for Western Canada, because of her?
The Liberals ruled all her time there. Mulroney is really no exception to Quebec Liberal rule since Diefenbaker. Mulroney just gave Conservatives a bad name. Canada has not changed one iota due to 15 years of Deborah Grey. She was the first Reform MP. She is the last to realize Reform is impossible, but now she is on the payroll for life, why would she want reform anyhow?
Westjet fights in the courts for a docking space at Terminal One in Pearson airport in Toronto. Air Canada is given sole position there now. Two things are wrong with this picture.
First, Westjet will never get a fair deal in the courts of Ontario or even less in the Federal Courts, appointed as they all are by Liberals or Ontario governments. Why would they let a Calgary based airline compete with Air Canada? How long would Air Canada last in a fair fight?
Secondly, why bother? People want Westjet for the price and service not for the terminal access. Let Air Canada keep its overpriced Terminal One facility. They will go bankrupt anyway except for a government bailout now and then. In fact, why not bypass Toronto all together and just make money on other routes and leave Pearson to the government-subsidized travelers like Mirabel?
“Ontario joins Senate Reform Push,” trumpets the March 17, 2004 headline of the National Post. Not likely, a voice whispers in my mind.
If the poll upon which the statement was made were really accurate, it would only be to the nice idea of an elected senate. Why the people of Ontario realized what this would cost them politically you can bet they would vote against the idea. You could count on Ontario's political elite to realize the cost and tell them.
This poll and its originators the Canada West Foundation is propaganda to undermine separatism, which will grow for two reasons. The oil price is one. The next election is another. When the Liberals win and impose an expropriation on Alberta's wealth, it will be 1980 all over again.
Preston Manning gets a front page editorial in the National Post to tell us what Canadians want are big ideas. But what big ideas does he have? Only questions and no answers. When did Reform, Alliance, Conservatives have a big idea besides getting into power and doing what the Liberals do, which is to reward their friends.
The Health Care System of which Mr. Manning speaks at length is failing because of massive third world immigration. Will Mr. Manning stop that? Not on your life. He is a plastic politician just like the rest and because of him, the West has wasted 20 years playing with Ottawa. I hope he enjoys his federal adulation.
Canada has existed as a corrupt constitution since its inception. This may come as a surprise for those who glorify a false history. But it is true. The CPR was a big kickback scheme and the “Pacific Scandal” of the 1880's demonstrated even the founded father John A. Macdonald wasn't above soliciting a bribe. Unlike George Washington who “could not tell a lie,” Macdonald could.
The sponsorship scandal is just the latest evidence of gangland government but it pales in comparison to BC's scam on the BC fast ferry, as $250 million is to $500 million. There is nothing new under the sun. All around us corruption is evident. Electing a new government will change nothing.
So what can we do? We can live with a millstone around our neck called the government of Canada, and pass that on to our children when we die, or we can fight for a referendum to create a new country.
I have chosen the latter since about 1975. The new petition for a referendum has given our cause new impetus. The whole scope of separatism is unending. A new constitution could establish a citizen's right of referendum, initiative and recall. Nothing else will.
Madam Justice McLaughlin has said, “in a pluralistic constitutional democracy majorities are not permitted to impose their moral values, their conception of the good life at the expense of those who do not control political life.”
This remarkable statement presupposes some astounding premises:
1. We have defined ourselves as a “pluralistic constitutional democracy.”
2. This term has some meaning.
3. Chief Justice McLaughlin has been authorized to interpret this term by some legal authority.
4. The judges are authorized to adjudicate between various moral values.
I have to ask with the greatest respect what special skill or training endows judges with these high philosophical abilities beyond those of ordinary people? Does this have something to do with the selection process? Does the Prime Minister conduct interviews on these matters before he decides? How do we define “democracy” if the majority doesn't rule on moral issues?
It was an amazing statement for amazing times in a crazy country. Her ladyship was explaining why parliament the voice of the people should not be allowed to question future candidates for her position on the Supreme Court. Only in Canada can elitism pass itself off as democracy and an appointed political aristocracy can dictate what our moral values shall be. Isn't anyone for freedom?
The new Western Standard magazine has begun publishing a western Canadian viewpoint. This is a refreshing change from the eastern dominated perspective. But it contains a very interesting article by David Frum, late of the speechwriter for George W. Bush. The irony is that Mr. Frum appears to have remained outside of Canada so long he does not realize or does not know what is going on. He obviously does not know or ignores what is being done to censor the press in Canada. The irony is really precious like so many in this crazy country.
David Frum writes in his opening sentence of “Free Press,” on page 16, “Canada is a free country with a semi-free press. There is no censorship in Canada, not of the print media anyway. Canada does not tell people what they may read.” Oh, really? What about the Doug Collins case? The Saskatoon Star Phoenix and the stick figures against homosexuality and quoted bible verses? They were a nought for freedom of expression in the press. Or closer to home, what about the Alberta experience of the Report magazine who were fined and prohibited from printing certain views.
Where have you been Mr. Frum, and how long will it take you to awaken to the fact Canada has no free press because those who own them have no courage and willingly comply to the dictates of unelected politically-appointed bureaucrats called Human Rights Tribunal, “Where truth is no defence.” The unpopularity of a Keegstra, Zundel, Malcolm Ross, or Chris Kempling is only a cover for the obvious desire of the politically correct under the guise of law to impose tyranny. And they have done it. The new religion of multiculturalism demands censorship and the press is no exception. Heretics must be silenced. Multiculturalism uber alles! Multicult fundamentalists make criminals of those who protest the gay agenda.
Yes, Mr. Frum, you are courageous and true about Canada, and very well informed but don't turn a blind eye to censorship of the press, which lies like a black plastic curtain stifling the life and breath out of the thinkers of Canada. It does no good to protest corruption and censorship in Canada. Corruption and censorship is Canada. They banned me personally from the precincts of parliament because I wanted to talk about these issues in a rented public space. No other lawyer in history has been so treated. The focus of a Westerner who loves freedom and has honesty must be to escape Canada by lawful means of a referendum. Canada is unfixable. Just maybe the Western Standard is the place where we can address these issues without fear. Time will tell.
A new WCC outreach in Victoria is being tried, with weekly meetings to be held on Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. at the Waveside Café in Saanich Commonwealth Place. The purpose is to meet new people, develop discussion on a variety of topics, encourage the petition, distribute literature and prepare for the provincial election.
Everyone is welcome. No host coffee and dessert available. Hear our weekly radio ad on CFAX1070 AM, Wednesday between 7:00 am and 8:00 am.
Douglas Christie