tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post7194923383458098942..comments2024-03-23T08:00:26.020+00:00Comments on THE MONARCHIST: VestigesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-72584244421170754452009-05-19T06:56:00.000+01:002009-05-19T06:56:00.000+01:00I'm not sure I would call Pearson "great", though ...I'm not sure I would call Pearson "great", though he is easily underestimated. For one thing, I find it hard to forgive him for the Forces' unification, which I think was a disaster.<br /><br />One thing is clear, though: Pearson's considerable accomplishments--conjured by two minority ministries that faced an extremely hostile Opposition--must be considered when we put Stephen Harper's two hapless ministries (which faced an extremely weak and pliable Opposition) in their proper perspective.Sir Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15052750849770350973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-79548336691047774112009-05-18T06:41:00.000+01:002009-05-18T06:41:00.000+01:00I don't much care for St. Laurent or Howe, but Les...I don't much care for St. Laurent or Howe, but Lester Pearson was a great man. He introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, and more or less created the Canadian peacekeeping tradition. He was a great man. Perhaps he did not embrace Canada's British character as wholly as he could have, but he was a great man. And Diefenbaker... Diefenbaker cancelled the Avro Arrow. Coming from an Air Force family, I can never forgive him for that. <br /><br />In any case, today Canada stands between a rock and a hard place when it comes to honouring the traditions left to us by the Empire and Commonwealth. The Liberals and NDP are no friends of tradition, this true, the Bloc seek to split our in two, and Stephen Harper? He would likely fellate the likes of George Bush or Richard Cheney if given the chance. As I see it, a choice of evils. I'd personally choose the Liberals though, due to my Left-leaning tendencies, but I do wish they had a different leader and a more reverent attitude to our British history and culture.Gladstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100967698376616565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-29276163726452344152009-05-17T02:49:00.000+01:002009-05-17T02:49:00.000+01:00And yet, anti-Americanism is part of the Liberal d...<I>And yet, anti-Americanism is part of the Liberal dogma. </I>Bah. Only rhetorically, very infrequently, and not nearly as passionately as media spin would have you believe. John Manley, Michael Ignatieff--<I>anti-American</I>? Please. Ignatieff used to think he <I>was</I> an American. He makes Harper look like Robert Borden. <br /><br />No. In practical, political and cultural terms, Canadian Liberalism has been the most insidious, corrosive and relentless anti-British, anti-BNA, and anti-Commonwealth agent in the country. The immediate post-war King/St. Laurent/Howe/Pearson axis, alone, did more damage to us than an army of fellow travelling Manifest-Destiny jihadis could ever have hoped to do. It's a fine thing that Diefenbaker was able to take them down; it's just so sad that it's been all downhill from there.Sir Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15052750849770350973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-4892121461350555232009-05-16T22:22:00.000+01:002009-05-16T22:22:00.000+01:00Of course, I assume Mr. Hepburn to be a card carry...Of course, I assume Mr. Hepburn to be a card carrying member of either the Liberal or New Democratic Parties, going by his parroting of their neo-Canadian tenets.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-29290713051862526032009-05-16T22:19:00.000+01:002009-05-16T22:19:00.000+01:00And yet, anti-Americanism is part of the Liberal d...And yet, anti-Americanism is part of the Liberal dogma. How do they reconcile this with the fact that they're preaching for Canada to become more like the US? They have the common sense, at least, to know we'll never completely imitate the US system. But, really, the head of a People's Multicultural Republic of Canada would just be a weak immitation of the US head of state, wrapped in a maple leaf flag in order to avoid cofusing him with some consular bureaucrat.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-73310617867531772962009-05-16T19:46:00.000+01:002009-05-16T19:46:00.000+01:00Sir Francis is right. As long we ape the Americans...Sir Francis is right. As long we ape the Americans the their republicans ways and mores, we preclude ourselves from being the Canadians we were meant to be.Aeneas the Youngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18235737108817968315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-10494629977612718442009-05-16T17:42:00.000+01:002009-05-16T17:42:00.000+01:00James:
Calling it "tripe" is too kind. Tripe is, ...James:<br /><br />Calling it "tripe" is too kind. Tripe is, at least, edible. That article is proudly <I>in</I>edible.<br /><br />And that “tinge of Bolshevism” you sense is actually just a huge dollop of republicanism—unsurprisingly, given who our neighbours are.Sir Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15052750849770350973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-68357549931404747312009-05-16T11:35:00.000+01:002009-05-16T11:35:00.000+01:00Hepburn's article was essentially a re-hash of wha...Hepburn's article was essentially a re-hash of what he submitted at this time last year; same old revisionism and anti-British pap shrouded in Canadiana patriotism. There really is more than a tinge of Bolshevism to it all, not to mention the arrogance of presuming to be oh so much more englightened than the rest of us knuckle dragging boors mired as we all are in the dingy, cobwebby past. He really is to be pittied, along with every individual who bought his steaming laod of tripe.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-29621399538679865252009-05-16T03:47:00.000+01:002009-05-16T03:47:00.000+01:00Tradition acts as a check on the pretensions of th...<I>Tradition acts as a check on the pretensions of the modern age</I>.<br /><br />...well, tradition <I>can</I> so act. Sadly, it now rarely does.<br /><br />It did not check the pretentious, arbitrary (and cowardly) quasi-constitutional proroguing of Parliament by a feckless and frightened prime minister, just as, long ago, it could not check Mackenzie King's desire to use an unscrupulous exploitation of a fraudulently conceived "constitutional crisis" to destroy the career of a man infinitely finer than he.<br /><br />The older I get, the more Jacobite I become. I think I would prefer the Crown to reign <I>and</I> rule...Sir Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15052750849770350973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-4158736308340545612009-05-16T02:55:00.000+01:002009-05-16T02:55:00.000+01:00I shake my head when reading words from the likes ...I shake my head when reading words from the likes of this author. I pity him as I would a hopeless imbecile. They can abolish the monarchy, they can tear down the statues of the monarchs, they can rename Victoria Day but they will never be able to change history, they will never be able to erase the fact that Canada was a colony, that Canada came into being because of French, British and American loyalist colonists and that it was within the British Empire that Canada grew into a great, independent nation. These people want to destroy history, but they cannot and will never be happy or satisfied.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-61703214035656305102009-05-15T19:32:00.000+01:002009-05-15T19:32:00.000+01:00Hear hear! It is no coincidence that the world ran...Hear hear! It is no coincidence that the world ran more smoothly when it was influenced by the British Isles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8162816964941896969.post-76179497052487367472009-05-15T15:35:00.000+01:002009-05-15T15:35:00.000+01:00Hear hear! Well said!Hear hear! Well said!Gladstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100967698376616565noreply@blogger.com