Yes, that is the reference I was making. Officially, their name is the Conservative Party Of Canada.
Canada has 4 major parties. Despite being corrupt, the Liberals stay in power election after election because the alternatives are the Separatists, the Socialists, and the National Socialists.
The CPC employ and sanction the actions of racists, bigots, and their stated goals are theocratic[1]. Their major recent policy positions have included "Why homosexuality is evil", "Why all the immigrants are out to get you", and "Why Quebec is a horrible place and why Quebecers supporting something is enough to prove that it's morally reprehensible".
Those first two, I'm oversimplifying and exagerrating their position. The third one, I'm not. Look up Stephen Harper's comments on Bill C-38 passing.
It's really too bad, because they make a lot of economic sense. I miss the PC party - fiscal conservatives and social liberals. They got destroyed on the right by the right-wing separatist Reform party and on the left by the Bloc Quebecois eating their other main base of support. Combined with the Liberals moving to a centrist position, the PC party went from Government to Opposition to loss of official party status due to lack of seats in consecutive elections. The remnants were absorbed by the Liberals and the Reformers, and the reformers became the Conservative Reform Alliance Party, realised what the acronym was, changed their name to the Canadian Alliance Party, and then said "screw the social liberals", hardened their theocratic wing, became the CPC, and that's where we are now.
[1]: Not nearly as much so as the American Republican party, or of a number of other splinter parties, but that's because in Canada, unlike the USA, it's possible for there to be more than two choices, and the really creepy theocrats have formed their own parties and run in their own ways.
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Date: 2005-07-20 08:29 pm (UTC)More than half of Canadians want Martin gone as well, of course.
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Date: 2005-07-21 07:28 pm (UTC)Nazi?
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Date: 2005-07-21 07:51 pm (UTC)Canada has 4 major parties. Despite being corrupt, the Liberals stay in power election after election because the alternatives are the Separatists, the Socialists, and the National Socialists.
The CPC employ and sanction the actions of racists, bigots, and their stated goals are theocratic[1]. Their major recent policy positions have included "Why homosexuality is evil", "Why all the immigrants are out to get you", and "Why Quebec is a horrible place and why Quebecers supporting something is enough to prove that it's morally reprehensible".
Those first two, I'm oversimplifying and exagerrating their position. The third one, I'm not. Look up Stephen Harper's comments on Bill C-38 passing.
It's really too bad, because they make a lot of economic sense. I miss the PC party - fiscal conservatives and social liberals. They got destroyed on the right by the right-wing separatist Reform party and on the left by the Bloc Quebecois eating their other main base of support. Combined with the Liberals moving to a centrist position, the PC party went from Government to Opposition to loss of official party status due to lack of seats in consecutive elections. The remnants were absorbed by the Liberals and the Reformers, and the reformers became the Conservative Reform Alliance Party, realised what the acronym was, changed their name to the Canadian Alliance Party, and then said "screw the social liberals", hardened their theocratic wing, became the CPC, and that's where we are now.
[1]: Not nearly as much so as the American Republican party, or of a number of other splinter parties, but that's because in Canada, unlike the USA, it's possible for there to be more than two choices, and the really creepy theocrats have formed their own parties and run in their own ways.