Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton

18 Replies to “Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dundas St W To Remember Jack Layton”

1. I fully support grassroots policy resolutions no matter how ridiculous/untenable/doomed-to-fail being permitted into the debate.
   The problem with the NDP apparently is that they apparently don’t have preliminary rounds of debate and votes at the riding and provincial level whereas the CPC does. I can personally attest to seeing resolutions almost as ridiculous coming forward within the CPCs policy process. But by the time of the national convention almost all have been rejected – in a democratic fashion.
   What would be far more damaging to the NDP would be if a few of these jackass Marxist/socialist resolutions actually were voted into the policy book.

2. I disagree Gord. I’d like to see them all in their policy book. It would ensure their quick demise.

3. ‘National Convention of the NDP is mickey-mouse, as you point out, Gord. Nothing is prioritized: Tiny, ridiculous resolutions get the same air time as serious ones. That’s the problem with the NDP: They’re like teenagers who think every problem is just as urgent as any other.
   IOW, the NDP needs to grow up, though I see no probability that this is ever going to happen — especially as long as there’s government-funded gravy trains with which they can further their socialist utopia and buy votes.

4. Awesome cheapshot. I am so impressed by you.

5. Agreed. Their ‘priority list’ is probably thousands of items long.
   Meanwhile self-described fiscal conservatives like Andrew coyne want nothing but pur laine fiscal policy resolutions in the CPC policy book that would guarantee electoral oblivion. Impractical, rigid and politically naive people inhabit both the right and the left of the spectrum.

6. Their resolution process reminds me of the Bolshevik deliberations in the Smolny Institute in November 1917.
   I could not bring myself to watch any of it, as I would get sick to my stomach over all the talk of nationalizing everything in sight.

7. “….as long as there’s government-funded gravy trains…”
   Most NDP’ers ARE on that gravy train,every NDP’er I’ve ever known has been either a member of a big Union,such as Teamsters,UAW or Ironworkers,or public sector,CUPE,CUPW,etc.
   Lately,most seem to be members of the latter.
   It’s disappointing to hear how so many of the NDP ranks don’t seem to have the foggiest notion of where the money comes from to pay for their beloved free handouts. Those people couldn’t balance the budget of a little kid;s lemonade stand,let alone a Province or Country.

8. It seems the Dippers have voted to remove socialism from their constitution’s preamble and have replaced it with… “which brings together the best of the insights and objectives of Canadians who, within the social democratic and democratic socialist traditions,”… tomato/tomahto, still red.

9. Pretty much indistinguishable from the platform of the Rhino Party.
   http://www.apathyisboring.com/en/the_facts/political_parties/18

10. Gord
    yuppers, some on the rite fail to understand that some “items” should be on the back burner, and then there is the fact that they don’t realize or just ignore that government serves ALL the ppl., not just those who voted for them

11. Anyone mention that they want to restart the gun registry and run an Obama-like oppressive regulatory pogrom against gun owners?
    Until these loons lose the “lets get those evil gun owners, corporations, big oil, wall street, etc.” mindset from the sandbox, they will never be taken seriously except by the seriously mental.
    I see nothing in the resolutions at this commie confab that would suggest they have matured to a point where thy are ready to govern a diverse nation. Dipper ideological immaturity and failure to grasp economic reality is still very much evident.

12. syncrodox: ” … the Dippers have voted to remove socialism from their constitution’s preamble … tomato/tomahto, still red.”
    A rose … is a rose … is a rose …
    Socialism … is socialism … is socialism … by any other name. ‘Magical thinking on the part of the Dippers: If we say we’re not socialists we’re not socialists, even though all of our policies are socialist.
    This won’t do, Mr. Mulcair. ‘Not even a nice try. ‘Devious BS.

13. Oh, and BTW, Dippers: GROW THE HELL UP.

14. I’m gonna hafta get a new pair of glasses. Everytime I read Kate’s headline I read “Let’s Erect A Plaque At 787 Dum-ass St W To Remember Jack Layton”. Maybe its just my myopic viewpoint on the one politician in Canada I NEVER wanted to have a beer with.

15. Agreed…their attempt at re-branding isn’t fooling anybody…

16. The NDP trying to dress up their hedgehog party in a gown. A make over for monkeys of Marx.

17. Furey is praising with faint damnation.
    The Richmond B. C. local are obviously nutjobs. Notions like “reduce the work week throughout Canada to 32 hours, without loss of pay or benefits to workers” were standard Communist Party platform rhetoric for a long time.
    “Community democratic control” means “we NDP gangsters will control everything in you peons’ lives”.
    Furey is wrong where he says “Infrastructure is the core duty of government”. The proper function of government is to protect individual rights. The difference between government and other institutions is that government can use coercion. It should only do that, as a retaliatory measure, when one private individual uses coercion on another. This has nothing whatsoever to do with infrastructure, which (other than the roads) was traditionally private. It should be again, although there are no overnight solutions.

18. The American governments are now spending more money per capita than the average American income. Fiscal conservatism is dead in both the USA and Canada. Tell me how it can be turned around?