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Stephen Harper speaks
The View from Canada
By Jim Miles, Foreign Policy Journal
Foreign Policy Journal
Sunday, Jan 4, 2015
Finally, you may not want to say it, because that “would make the situation a bit tricky,” seeing as how you only have eighteen per cent of the population actually voting for you, which in Canada’s idiotic first past the post system allows you to govern. The good conservative economic, security and foreign policies that are derived straight from the heart of corporate Republican America are good for one thing only, your ultimate dream that you stated at the beginning of the interview, “I think we’ve got the country on the right track but I would like to take some more time to put it on that track in a very permanent way.” [italics added]
That one statement is the most important of all these, expressing the megalomania of a man wishing to assume full control of all aspects of Canadian life for all time. It makes all these other issues—other than for the direct impacts of the people involved within the veterans affairs comments and the indigenous women’s comments—pale by comparison.
So what is to be made ‘permanent’? Trade agreements that place corporations above the control of the sovereign government, corporations that have no responsibility towards the environment, or their workers, or society in general (there is nothing ‘free’ about trade agreements). Trade agreements that allow foreign corporations to dominate and control our markets (ironically, China will probably get there regardless as they buy up Canada’s energy resources). The executive control of the government by way of the PMO and its unelected staff so that there is ultimately only one supreme leader. The privatization of whatever can be privatized—regardless of the value to the Canadian public outside the profit motive—for the conservative desire for profits for the corporate elite. The disenfranchisement—even more so than now—of all First Nations people, so that their land and resources can be privatized and corporatized for more profits to the elites.
One has to consider ultimately, the idea is that of “Fortress North America”, with Canada tied up alongside U.S. foreign policy directives, tied into a continental energy market that serves mainly the corporate elites and the military. True there may still be an imaginary line at the 49th parallel, but structurally we are being integrated into the imperial hegemon at a corporate level above and beyond an independent sovereign nation.
That one statement is the most important of all these, expressing the megalomania of a man wishing to assume full control of all aspects of Canadian life for all time. It makes all these other issues—other than for the direct impacts of the people involved within the veterans affairs comments and the indigenous women’s comments—pale by comparison.
So what is to be made ‘permanent’? Trade agreements that place corporations above the control of the sovereign government, corporations that have no responsibility towards the environment, or their workers, or society in general (there is nothing ‘free’ about trade agreements). Trade agreements that allow foreign corporations to dominate and control our markets (ironically, China will probably get there regardless as they buy up Canada’s energy resources). The executive control of the government by way of the PMO and its unelected staff so that there is ultimately only one supreme leader. The privatization of whatever can be privatized—regardless of the value to the Canadian public outside the profit motive—for the conservative desire for profits for the corporate elite. The disenfranchisement—even more so than now—of all First Nations people, so that their land and resources can be privatized and corporatized for more profits to the elites.
One has to consider ultimately, the idea is that of “Fortress North America”, with Canada tied up alongside U.S. foreign policy directives, tied into a continental energy market that serves mainly the corporate elites and the military. True there may still be an imaginary line at the 49th parallel, but structurally we are being integrated into the imperial hegemon at a corporate level above and beyond an independent sovereign nation.
Full article: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_68888.shtml