Author: Blazingcatfur

Political parties are normally conservative about their internal rules and processes. There is one exception: when a competitor makes an apparently successful big change in how it is led. Then all the others jump to copy it.

The “tyranny of delegated conventions,” was condemned as anti-democratic, smoky backrooms by the Reform Party in the ’80s. Far more democratic to allow “one member, one vote.” They ignored that we live in a representative democracy. There is no one citizen, one vote in any legislature. Nonetheless, every political party had adopted its version of this tomfoolery.

Our mainstream parties are up to far worse than Sear’s article addresses.

LPC, NDP, CPC have all signed on to the ruinous mass immigration agenda of the corporate class.

Members of Parliament and senators may be able to dodge the centuries-old oath of allegiance to King Charles if a Liberal MP gets his pending private member’s bill passed.

Canadian monarchists say the bill is republicanism by stealth — part of a larger effort to slowly chip away at the Crown’s standing in Canada without actually scrapping the monarchy through a protracted constitutional fight with the provinces.

Canada’s republicans, meanwhile, are welcoming the bill as a necessary first step toward ridding the country of what they maintain is an outdated institution.

As the new year kicks off, the top concerns of Canadians for 2024 are the cost of living and immigration, according to recent polling by Nanos Research.

Polling found that half of Canadians who have a mortgage are “concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about making payments, 35 per cent of respondents want the House of Commons to prioritize the cost of living, and up to 61 per cent of those surveyed want Canada to “accept less immigrants.”

In the final days of 2023, there was no more poignant symbol of Canada’s post-national malaise than the cultural darkness cloaking Parliament Hill.

Christmas lights—the ones that actually mean something—haven’t been seen there since 2021. The federal government replaced them the following year with something called “Winter Lights” which, no matter how hard you think about it, stand for nothing at all.