A poll at Cnews. (On the left of the home page, about a third of the way down.)
Update: Something’s gone horribly wrong. One hour since posting, the poll has moved from a 6 point lead for “no”, into a dead heat.
Update2: Now 4 hours into the poll, the “yes” side has drawn into a 10 point lead. Curious and curiouser….
I am trying to start one. It’s an uphill battle in Canada but worth it.
http://www.mapleleafparty.ca
Yes!
But we should call it the “Double Double Party” or the “Tim’s Party”.
I think we need a bowel movement, then things might get better.
Seriously, it would be bad political strategy to call it the Canadian Tea Party movement, this would just dredge up the usual widespread anti-American sentiments. We should call it, oh I don’t know, maple leaf conservatism, or Harper on Steroids, or western Canada.
OT: doesn’t the graphic they picked for the hurricane story look like van Gogh’s Starry Night?
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bring it on, you knuckle-draggin’ neocons!!!
iggy’s not afraid… honestly… he says so…
no kidding.
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As usual we are ahead of the Yanks. We elect Trudeau, they elect Obama. We get the Reform Party – they get tea.
The Reform Party was our revolt against massive government expansion and deficits. It forced the Liberals against their will to reduce spending and balance the budgets. The Reform Party is primarily why we in Canada are in better shape than the US and much of Western Europe.
Unless their is a new crisis any new “tea party” in Canada will fail big time.
We should call it the “Red Rose” movement.
Then it wouldn’t alarm Canadian Leftists so much and the British could look upon it with envy and say, “Only in Canada?” “Pity!”
What a silly question on an assumption of settled history (!?) The name doesn’t matter, sooner or later there will be a movement defying hegemony of Ottawa and the whole social-democratic centralization mania.
I thought of that one OZ, as I was sipping my RRT at my keyboard.
Perhaps Peter O, it’s time to smash that dated strategy once and for all.
BTW, Taliban Jack was on Gormley and he played the “American style” card when speaking to PMSH’s approach to the Long Gun Registry bill in the HoC. I doubt he got any traction, but this is Saskatchewan.
Just like in Football, you need to be able to stop the opponents best play(s) in order to beat them. In this case those go-to plays are the “anti-American” and “race” cards. To use an NFL analogy, we need to put 8 in the box and let them try and beat us deep.
I see Fritz’s point, but I still think a Canadian Tea Party would be a good way for Canadians to show solidarity with the Tea movement down south. Think of it as “cutting the grass so the snakes will show”, as the MSM and the Left would inevitably come out and slander good people for no other reason than being white.
Also, my Tea Party would be a check on the center-left Conservatives. I could see the CTP as a mechanism to move Canadian political dialog to the Right.
A serious name for such a party could be the CCSP(Canadian Commons Sense Party).
The Canadian equivalent of the Tea Party was the anti-coalition movement. That was grass roots Canadians expressing contempt for crass political
manoeuvres.
Might be my Blackberry but the poll showed up on the right for me
Sent in my voye and YES is only about 4 points in the lead. Continues to amaze me both in Canada and US how many continue to cling to Big Government policies in spite of they’re demonstrably failed applications everywhere
Heh the fact Bam Bam continues to pull north of 40% approval makes me weep for Humanity
BAH -my grammatical apologies – they’re should read their
Hate it when others do it so I shall self admonish in this case
Poll continues to go horribly wrong. 1:47 pm CDT, 50% Yes, 45% No.
Dudes and dudettes, this here IS the frickin’ Tea Party. You’re in it. The Yanks may have tea but we have a dead gopher. We are -way- cooler.
Kate,just slap the Hope/Change gopher on a Tiger Brand, you’ll be a zillionaire. 🙂
Strange way to phrase the question: “Does Canada need the Tea Party movement?” The word “need” throws a wrench in things – what is that supposed to mean? I don’t “need” a dram of malt scotch in the evening, but I strongly approve of it.
A better question might be “Would you like to see a Tea Party movement in Canada?”
Um, we already had a Tea Party Movement. Some geeky guy with glasses started talking about it in the 1980s. It was called the Reform Party. It brought us years of Liberal majorities, forced the Liberals to balance budgets and forego their worst progressive instincts, and, eventually, gave us a Tory government led by a Calgarian. Can’t anyone remember stuff that happened prior to last year?
We cannot have a ‘tea party’ movement in Canada. We don’t have the history. We might want to call something akin to it that reflects our own history of defiance……hmmm….the only defiance I can think of is the War of 1812 when we stopped the Americans from making us all Americans. Then there is the FLQ … but they were terrorists and not too keen on any unity whatsoever unless THEY were running the show. And willing to kill to back it up. ( We actually won on the Plains of Abraham but the French have been winning ever since and continue to bully us into idiotic plurality that costs billions while denying same in Quebec.)
Maybe hone in on our penchant for fighting wars we did not start but supported our allies in honourable ways always, right up to this very minute. And show real honour to our troops who made those efforts spectacularly successful.
As for a real conservative movement that addresses the idiocies of our socialist bents and oppression , such as it is, in this country we can start with the CBC and the CRTC and move on to abolishing The Gun Registry. Intent on getting government out of the way . The socialist experiment in this country is a miserable failure as are all socialist experiments everywhere they have been tried. Trouble is that in Canada most folks do not care enough to know we are actually highly taxed because we are socialist already and have been for decades. ( one of the real reasons WHY we do not yet have a conservative majority in parliament. That and the real idiocy of The Bloc actually recognized IN parliament!)The implementation of the HST has awakened some to realize that taxing visibly is always less attractive than hidden taxes that add to the cost of goods and services five or six times over. Even when the visible tax is far less than the hidden tax, the fact it IS visible raises the ire of the ‘ordinary citizen’ who has paid high taxes for decades and not peeped a peep. The problems in the states that has galvanized millions to rise up in protest is a way of life here that has ingrained itself without any such uprising.
As I said, we did NOT have a Boston Tea Party from which we could launch a protest against government thuggery. We got clubbed on the head by Trudeau and fell to our knees whimpering.
We have yet to get up.
Maybe our cousins to the South , by example , will illustrate how invasive and intrusive government intervention in all areas of our lives really is and that we CAN and SHOULD do something about it.
We could start with a Conservative MAJORITY in Parliament. That would end the Iggy/Layton intellectual nonsense for sometime. We might actually get even lower taxes if our government had that kind of mandate.
Yes we need a Tea Party movement, the thought of it scares the libs and red tories summthin fierce.
53% yes, 43% no….
Tea Party sounds so quaint, invite the Queen!
How about a good old fashioned 1837 REBELLION!
Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!
“Yet much remains
To conquer still; peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war: new foes arise,
Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains:
Help us to save free conscience from the paw
Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.”
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Can’t get it on my Blackberry, but the work and home computers were able to get there……..LOL
The Reform Party is primarily why we in Canada are in better shape than the US and much of Western Europe.
Posted by: Fritz at August 31, 2010 12:59 PM
TRUE, Fritz. Remember the debt clock and stuff. Fraser Institute.
We cannot have a ‘tea party’ movement in Canada. We don’t have the history.
Posted by: Snowbunnie at August 31, 2010 3:25 PM
TRUE. Let’s be Canadian, not yankee-derivative.
A thread, Kate, on good names for the movement?
Something with beaver, or is that too compromised?
Maple something?
The Puck Party?
Tim something, maybe, but, please forgive me, I hate Tim Hortons, Latte Libertarian that I am.
54% yes, 41% no, 5% wishywashy.
I just checked. Yes: 76%, No: 21%
Hence, tomorrow’s headline:
Experts Agree — 76% of Canadians Are Violent Racists
Just voted, 84% Yes, 2% Maybe’s and only 14% no’s now with 9230 votes cast.
How can we have a Tea Party movement when we never had a Tea Party?
Good point Ellie in T.O and since we drink way more coffee then tea we could our selves the Timmie’s party. Mind you out here in west here we just call ourselves Albertans.