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- From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
- Subject: Re: Loss of Faith in Canada
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.165430.13494@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <WARKENT.92Dec14105516@ltisun14.epfl.ch> <13740@grayt> <1992Dec22.054229.7271@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:54:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.054229.7271@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes:
- >In article <13740@grayt> grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (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.
-
- well said.
- forget libertarianism or not -- the time has come for fiscal
- responsibility. call it what you will, it has to happen. because
- the way things are right now cannot continue. and it would be better
- if we fixed things ourselves rather than letting them fix themselves,
- because the latter scenario will be far more painful, and is unavoidable
- anyway, regardless of what the mob tells us.
-
- --
- charles
-