14 Replies to “Rescuing Canada’s Right”

  1. I would think that after you just made an ass out of yourself by allowing Drudge to do your thinking for you that you wouldn’t be so quick to suggest that someone else should now do it. Reject the brainwash. Pay attention to what is actually going on in the world and make up your own mind rather than paying attention to some blowhard who is trying to tell you what is going on in the world.
    You do not need these two hucksters to tell you how to rescue Canada’s right.

  2. Call me old-fashioned but I would prefer to see young people discovering life rather than writing books to advance their careers. Like Naomi Klein, there is an odour of self-promotion.

  4. I’d bet on pro-wrestling before taking political advice from RobberMc on rehabilitating CanCon.
    The Rehab CanCon junkies don’t get the fact that Alberta, the FedCon base, is considering bailing on the Canaduh concept.
    Auggie, young folks should be productive, creative and political. Why not, Auggie? Jealous?
    You don’t want them on welfare, do you?
    Bottom line is, Ontario loves the status quo, but dosen’t know Alberta hates it.
    I don’t want to see the nationhood of Alberta delayed by a fleetingly temporary Harper regime.

  5. Around the world by short-wave, er, the Internet, the bloggers/blogs are heard. India & Toronto/Calgary/Montreal/Halifax/Vancouver/Iqaluit/Ivy Lea & all points between: linked by bloggers– at the speed of a dancing pixel on your screen.
    An alternative medium, indeed: an alternative to print media, certainly. Audio/video next. >>>>>
    Can bloggers take on the role of public regulators?
    Sruthijith K K
    Monday, October 17, 2005 22:42 IST
    What�s the war about?
    We know Prof Arindam Chaudhuri. He has gatecrashed into our collective consciousness using full-page newspaper ads. Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), of which he is the dean, spent Rs5 crore last year. We do not know Gaurav Sabnis. He was, until last Monday, a sales specialist at IBM�s Mumbai office. While at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, Sabnis began blogging, a newly acquired hobby. Vantage Point, Sabnis� blog, ranked among the top five blogs in India (Blogstreet rankings). In the past few days, Gaurav got IIPM so much publicity, it is the No 1 search string on Technorati � a website that tracks the blogosphere. All search results here lead to blog posts �exposing� IIPM�s claims in their ads and their websites. By the end of this week, Google searches on IIPM are likely to give page after page of unfavourable stuff.
    The blog effect
    Last week�s happenings may well be a sign of its arrival as a constructive regulative mechanism. Admittedly, blogs do not have the reach of mainstream media, but their influence on the Web matters. For instance, a student in Chennai considering IIPM�s Rs7 lakh MBA programme, is more likely to search the Net than any other medium. And what is on the Net may not be positive.
    The history
    The IIPM Vs Sabnis saga began when JAM (a campus magazine) ran a story in its June 15 issue on IIPM�s ads, revealing gaps between claims and reality. The story alleged that IIPM provided incorrect data to C-Fore, the agency that conducted B-School rankings for Outlook magazine; many companies who, according to the ads recruited IIPM students, had not even gone to their campuses; claims about infrastructure were exaggerated, and the �world-renowned� institute in Belgium that conferred the degree to IIPM students was hardly that. DNA also e-mailed IIPM, apart from making several calls seeking clarifications. The institute did not respond.
    On August 5 Sabnis, posted a blog titled �The fraud that is IIPM� and linked it to JAM�s article. On October 4, Sabnis received an email from IIPM�s legal cell accusing him of �deliberate and fraudulent intentions� and threatening to sue him for damages worth Rs125 crore if he did not delete his IIPM post. �I almost fell off my chair laughing,� Sabnis wrote in his blog.
    Then what?
    Things took a serious turn when, �IIPM wrote an email to IBM threatening that if I do not withdraw what I wrote on my blog, their students will burn laptops that they bought in bulk from IBM, in front of the IBM office.� This was confirmed in a press note from IIPM. Sabnis, to spare IBM from trouble, resigned, which made him a hero in blogosphere.
    Why resign?
    Sabnis told fellow blogger Amit Varma: �You know, we bloggers are always writing about principles, about freedom of speech, about standing up for what we believe in, for the truth. It�s very easy to write all that. But I�m being tested on those principles in real life. If I don�t stand by those principles now, I will lose all respect for myself.� Varma posted this on his blog.
    From that moment on, IIPM is now virtually the only topic on Indian blogs. International blogs like Instapundit picked it up. Even blogs defending IIPM mushroomed, people left filthy comments on JAM�s editor Rashmi Bansal�s blog and Sabnis� inbox. But what Sabnis began with a single post has now become an online revolution � almost a hundred bloggers across the country and abroad are �investigating� IIPM, Chaudhuri and everything related to them.
    Online �investigators�
    Bloggers have discovered in a week more than what a mainstream reporter may have in a month. They called up IIPM�s Toronto office and found it was not an IIPM office at all. Even Chaudhuri�s educational qualifications, along with IIPM�s sister concerns are under the scanner. Bloggers also dug out a scanned page of an affidavit on submitted by Malay Chaudhuri, IIPM founder and father of Arindam, as a Lok Sabha candidate from Balasore in Orissa in 2004 claiming.he did his MSc, PhD and DSc from Berlin School of Economics from 1962-1970. They found that the institute was founded in 1971!
    An alternative medium
    If you were reluctant to confer the status of alternative media to bloggers, budge now. As Varma, says, �Blogging is public regulation at its best. Both government and private enterprises should know they will be held accountable for any lies they tell, and will not be able to get away with deception.�
    http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=6136&CatID=5
    via instapundit

  7. Slavery in Canada 2005
    …”I’m not afraid. To me, this is freedom,” the 23-year-old immigrant from Sudan said as the sun began to peek over the bald prairie in southeastern Alberta and hundreds of fellow strikers started appearing out of the darkness around her…”It is better out here. That is a prison,” the married mother of two said, pointing at the nearby Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse — her employer…..Nearly 70 per cent of the people on the picket line are visible minorities. This is the first strike for most of them and the rules of engagement are unclear and foreign….”We have strikes in Africa. But when governments come, they solve it,” said Monica Deng, a 36-year-old Sudanese immigrant holding a sign that read: “Government! Stop Slavery in Canada.”
    “I didn’t come here to be a slave,” she added….
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20051018/LAKESIDE18/National/Idx

  10. I reluctantly have to agree with some of Mr, McClelland’s bluster. To be precise: “You do not need these two hucksters to tell you how to rescue Canada’s right.”
    This is correct. Your own intuition should tell you there is nothing wrong with you or your message to Canadians…it just isn’t getting to them.
    Canadian conservative values, which are inarticulately expressed in the CPC policy book, are certainly a better idea. They are a true alternative to the tired utopianism and corrupt statism of the single party state…more individual freedom and personal wealth through smaller, unintrusive more transparent and reponsible government…pretty simple….an ideal who’s time is here. There is nothing to change in Conservative thought if this is the core ideal.
    It is not the message it is the media. The one point in the book’s liner I see as issue #1 is the fact that a conservative counter culture must become dominent through either balanced messaging in the MSM and public institutions (both of which are ideological monoliths indoctrinating us in only one value system) or through intelligent use of alternate media and public activism.
    There is nothing wrong with Canadian Conservatives that requires “make-over types of meddling. All that Canadian conservatives have to do is GET ACTIVE!!!!

  11. “Your own intuition should tell you there is nothing wrong with you or your message to Canadians…it just isn’t getting to them.”
    Actually that is a big part of the problem. The cons message is reaching Canadians loud and clear and Canadians don’t like it one bit.

  12. Too long have average Canadians sat back while the liberals and whackos have taken control of our lives.
    Get out there, be vocal, don’t let them slap us down. Take back our country before it is too late.
    Bitter little men like robert have no new ideas. They regurgitate the same old thing that has been disproven. Now, they can only lash out at others who dare to question them.
    enough

  13. ” The cons message is reaching Canadians loud and clear and Canadians don’t like it one bit.”
    Riiiiight….which of course explains the 60,000 new Conservative Party of Canada memberships sold this summer by the CPC, and the fat stacks of cash LEGALLY fundraised by the CPC, etc.

  14. ” The cons message is reaching Canadians loud and clear and Canadians don’t like it one bit.”
    I have to dissagree. Talk to Libs. about looking into health care alternatives like other countries use (say Britain for eg,) and you get “We don’t want American style …blah blah blah.” Libs go on with some anti american rant and that is the message that gets through. I’m talking about Britain mot the US!

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