Hakluyt
01-24-2006, 08:16 AM
Share any thoughts, quotes etc. here
Clearly little will change in concrete terms under his prime ministership, but I think the conservatives being elected holds a lot of symbolic importance, and hopefully this will give a chance for the conservative movement to reflect on itself and reform (even more so when they inevitably lose the next election) As far as Harper himself, i think the comments about him being the most far-right PM we've ever elected are basically fair, but relative to his zeitgeist, obviously
to start, here's a plainly skewed but neat sample of quotes and other interesting things: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-06-03/news_insight.php
in particular:
Favours abolishing human rights commissions, calling them "an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society.... It is in fact totalitarianism."
without said commissions and tribunals far, far fewer "hate speech" crimes would be prosecuted, or even pursued in the first place, and a man like Zundel for example would not have been treated the way he was
In his own words: "West of Winnipeg, the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettos, and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
Counts among his youth influences U.S. éminence grise of the right Peter Brimelow, whose books include Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster and The Worm In The Apple: How The Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education.
^Yep, that's the same Peter Brimelow who presently runs Vdare.com
The admiration for "american enterprise and individualism" is silly but unsurprising
I'm sifting through lots of stuff, I'll post more, might take a look at that recent biography about him as well if ive got the time
Clearly little will change in concrete terms under his prime ministership, but I think the conservatives being elected holds a lot of symbolic importance, and hopefully this will give a chance for the conservative movement to reflect on itself and reform (even more so when they inevitably lose the next election) As far as Harper himself, i think the comments about him being the most far-right PM we've ever elected are basically fair, but relative to his zeitgeist, obviously
to start, here's a plainly skewed but neat sample of quotes and other interesting things: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2004-06-03/news_insight.php
in particular:
Favours abolishing human rights commissions, calling them "an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society.... It is in fact totalitarianism."
without said commissions and tribunals far, far fewer "hate speech" crimes would be prosecuted, or even pursued in the first place, and a man like Zundel for example would not have been treated the way he was
In his own words: "West of Winnipeg, the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettos, and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
Counts among his youth influences U.S. éminence grise of the right Peter Brimelow, whose books include Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster and The Worm In The Apple: How The Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education.
^Yep, that's the same Peter Brimelow who presently runs Vdare.com
The admiration for "american enterprise and individualism" is silly but unsurprising
I'm sifting through lots of stuff, I'll post more, might take a look at that recent biography about him as well if ive got the time