Dear Readers,
The Canadian election has been called! Sigh. After covering the US presidential race, especially during the past few weeks, it is very difficult to put fingers to keyboard and write with excitement about the Canadian election race, er, crawl, plod, yawn, charade.
What’s the problem you ask? In the US race, no matter how much one may disagree with any of the candidate’s positions or the often obscene excess of election spending and hoopla, the issues are usually ALL talked about and the candidates gladly respond or are eventually forced to respond, whether honestly or not. Investigative media are aggressive in trying to reveal to the public the truth of their answers or many media try to distort and manipulate the responses to undermine or build up the various candidates.
American talk radio and television is far freer and diverse than Canada’s rigidly CRTC thought-controlled and therefore blandly uniform radio and television. Therefore the US public can choose from a greater diversity of information sources for election information (although we admit the mainstream giants are mostly all on the manipulative left). Canadians are kept much more in the dark about many things through media control and collusion as veteran Canadian pro-life, pro-family organization leaders will relate with dismay.
Neither the Canadian or US political systems are necessarily superior to one another. That is not what we are saying. Canada was not always this way. It is just that in an increasingly socialist Canada, especially since the reign of Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, forced uniformity of thought through government, legal and education institutions, government control of the media and the decline of true representative democracy in the federal and provincial legislatures, is more advanced. Canada has also become a more secular nation, with very weak religious leaders and a greater drop in religious practice and belief, thereby functioning on a very shallow philosophical ground. Canada is also far more advanced than the US in its political leaders having handed over more of the nation’s sovereignty, often without the voters’ or even parliament’s assent, to the United Nations and other unaccountable international agencies.
During Canadian elections in recent years, a fair number of issues have been declared off limits. The candidates are instructed by the party to withhold their views on contentious issues from the voters or to only give a fixed party-drafted response. Unbelievably, a large number of otherwise principled candidates actually do ignore their obligations and consciences and refuse to give anything other than the party statement or no statement. The party leaders have become dictators and a large percentage of candidates allow themselves to be muzzled and controlled. They are literally told to shut up about abortion (above all), homosexuality, gay “marriage”, human rights commission trashing of religious and conscience freedom and anything that is controversially politically incorrect. The voters are therefore denied the information needed to cast a responsible, informed vote. This is a very serious violation of basic democratic principles and all the parties are in on the travesty. However, there is no movement of outrage in the nation to stop this.
Representative democracy? Canadian government has in recent decades morphed into a dictatorship of the Prime Minister form of government. The power of a Canadian Prime Minister or provincial premier now far exceeds the government power of a US president or state governor.
There would be excitement over this election if one of the parties gave a strong indication that it is challenging the status quo and would restore candidate freedom to represent constituents and their own principles, act to forcefully protect fundamental freedoms and reduce the now vastly excessive power and size of Canadian government. There would also be some excitement if there was an option of a party that is at least open to take meaningful actions to begin to halt the assaults on innocent and vulnerable human lives. Other than the tiny Christian Heritage Party, there is no party with representation in parliament that presents any of the above choices. It has become a political wasteland.
So, is it hopeless? Never. There are still some courageous and principled candidates who are above being party robots. Efforts by motivated voters can convince more candidates and Members of Parliament to resist improper party pressures and be true to their principles, their constituents and their nation.
Until the people start to wake up, to vote and act with courage and return to authentic traditional political and religious principles (which would not be a threat to those of religions new to Canada), the nation will continue its dangerous moral and political decline.
We Canadians are nice, far, far too nice about defending life, truth and freedom and letting manipulators exploit and abuse us. Canadians have in recent years become deathly nice.
LifeSiteNews will provide much information again during this Canadian election, but it will be useless unless those who read it understand its implications, accept with courage those implications, tell others about them, and consistently act and vote on that information. If life, family and freedom are not finally again given FIRST priority in voting and other political support, then nothing will change, nothing can change – except to become worse.
No comment on the US election today, other than to state it is still astonishing the lengths to which the mainstream liberal media are going to trash Sarah Palin. It is way over the top and reckless. However, this may be the best thing that has ever happened to get the public to finally see just how extraordinarily biased those media are. This could actually work in Sarah Palin’s favour and that of many other traditional principles candidates who also offend the left.
Steve Jalsevac
LifeSiteNews.com