NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/soc/culture/canada/9605

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From: [e-mail] (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: Loss of Faith in Canada
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Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:42:29 GMT
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In article <13740@grayt> [e-mail] (Tom Gray) writes:
>
>I agree that this forum is not representative of Canadian opinion. However
>the Canada of 1992 is not the same Canada that existed in 1985. The trauma
>that was forced upon the country in the imposition of the FTA, GST, Meech
>Lake and Charlottetown, has changed something and not for the better.
>
>Canadians have lost faith in their system of government. The antipathy
>towards politicians and political solutions now presetn in Canada does
>seem to reflect in some manner the attitudes of the libertarians.
>Canada has turned insular both socially and politically.

There is no nascent or established political movement that is
libertarian in nature in Canada...or even really tending that way...
of any real significance, that is.

In fact, the tendency is noticably anti-libertarian right now...
...certainly there is an antipathy towards politicians these days,
but that is because the bills for the government excesses of the
last twenty years are coming due, and the free lunch financed on
public borrowing is over.

We certainly need a political movement in Canada that is interested
in liberty...but there is certainly none evident...at best one has
a choice of the lesser of evils.  Mainstream politics in Canada
has become hopelessly "politically correct", and pretty much captured
by it flawed trendy totalitarian ideas of the baby-boom generation.

It may be a blessing that we may perhaps be "saved" from the worst
excesses in ideology of the boom generation by the debt overhang.

Gerald