Canada Voted Conservative… Conditionally…! By: Mohamed Sherif Kamel
Canada
By: Mohamed Sherif Kamel*
24 January 2006
First published: http://indaily.net/?p=199
Canada voted, and the Canadian
chose Conservative but conditionally, they voted them punishing the Liberal and
sending them to the recovering period, recovering from the long period in the
government that created a shield of corruption within the party and within the
voters who felt that the Liberal is the only option so it has been spoiled by
the voters also. Until the voters walk up to see the old Liberal that became
the real right wing under Paul Martin and his advisor “Board”[1]
whom thought that they can hijack the Liberal and the entire country by directing
it there way[2], so
people punish them, and we gain the departure of Paul Martin, who thought that
being Prime Minister means that he can do whatever he and his Board and
lobbying groups likes.
But what also we gain from this
election? To know that, we should first understand the satiation right now,
Conservatives are going to govern with 124 seat only, that represent 40% of the
Parliament seats and with popular vote 36% which is really far from the Liberal
103 seat with 30% of the popular vote, that 36% is the double of the only
national left wing party NDP that achieve a huge jump from 19 seats to 29 seats
with 17% that represent 50% increase in its chare of the Parliament, while the
left wing “regional party” the BQ won 51 seats and 10% of the popular vote
coming from Quebec only which occupy less than 25% of the parliament seats as
all[3].
We have to watch careful the
result of the NDP, BQ and the gain of the Conservative in Quebec, The NDP and
the BQ have many in common in addition of being to the left, in addition to that
they are both have no hope to form the government and both of them share a huge
support from the people. NDP rose from 19 to 29 seats non of them in Quebec,
prove that people recognized the importance of the opposition parties specially
with the minority government and that what the NDP prove when he force the
Liberal to change its Budget in what became know as the NDP budget.
On the other hand the BQ continue
in reforming itself as a local “National” party with more visible minority where
came Maria Morani, Vivian Barbo and Maka Kota MPs under the BQ platform, the
party get more closer to the various communities and understand more and more
their issues, so he get their support, while doing that they made the same
mistake as the Liberal by taking the vote of the Quebecers in the Quebec city
region for granted so Conservative get 10 seats from the BQ reducing his seats
in spite that they gain many from the Liberal party.
In this environment the far right
wing government can not govern based on the right wing agenda because it dose
not have the mandate to do so, and the official opposition is the Liberal that
has only two choice, to align itself with the right wing[4],
or clean itself and come back to the people with the real Liberal when we
had Pierre Elliott Trudeau[5],
when we had once Lester Pearson[6].
At the same time the Conservative
could not govern to the far right with a Senate of majority of Liberal and the
shadow of election! Yes election that could come anytime and for sure within
tow years;
We gain more than this; we gain a
minority government[7],
“Canadians need to recall
their recent experience with majority governments. Two full decades of
back-to-back majorities under successive Conservative (1984–1993) and Liberal
(1993–2004) governments have delivered largely on the demands of corporate Canada
On the other hand this election
brought to us many new rising powers in Canada ,
people power with the direct influence and movement from many ex-silent groups
as Muslims[8] and the main Arab group CAF [9] and
the first ever all group debate in one of the riding highest percentage of
Muslim and Arab population in Montreal
With the first
ever Arab and Muslim activist been elected to the Canadian Parliament Omar Alghabra who was the national
president of CAF and been attacked
from the right wing and the corporate before[11] and after[12] his great success in Mississauga-Erindal.
At the same time
the Palestinian tragedy came back to the front stage with the recommendation
from PAJU[13] group to vote
for candidate stands for the peace and justice not pro-Israel and special
interest groups[14].
The result was to
a big extend satisfied in this very close race with the lose of three ministers
facing PAJU recommendation with Vivian Barbot (BQ)
defeating Pierre Pettigrew the Minster of Foreign Affair for the shift of the
Canadian policy to the right and closer to Israel , Thierry St-Cyr (BQ)
defeating Liza Frulla the Minister of Heritage for her neglecting to her duty
toward the minorities and Marcel Lussier defeating Jacque Saada the minister of
the Francophone for his history[15] who tried to deny it hoping to win[16].
People have been encouraged to vote
and they did voted a minority government so people maintain the control in
their hand and that is the grateful of the Minority Government.
It is not the end, because this story has no end, it
is the human been every day story, and the winner is the one who do not relax
and never give up, so let us use our
rights and achieve our goal one step at a time.
Voting is not the end of the road, voting is the first
step, we should participate actively not just by vote, but by being more
involved in the parties and there activities, we should not just stay on the line
waiting the call for another election to vote, we should be in the front in the
parties, choosing the candidates before going to the polls but being the
candidate themselves, it is along road but the 100 mile trip starts with the
first step, let it be.
* Mohamed
S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer from Montréal, the editor of I.N. Daily[17]
and the President of the Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM[18]),
could be reach at infr@apm-ram.org
[7] Please see; “Why minority
government is good for Canada
[8] Please
see the CMF presentation to the BQ in the feast celebration (Eid
Aladha) http://indaily.net/?p=193
[9] Please
see the CAF
presentation to the BQ in the feast celebration (Eid Aladha) http://indaily.net/?p=195
[10]
Please
see Arab Voters debate in Ville St.
Laurent
[12] Please
see Democratic guise cannot hide the real
face of anti-Arab, pro-Israel propaganda factory http://indaily.net/?p=197
[15] Canadian
Parliament debates April 2002 http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/164_2002-04-09/han164_2150-e.htm
[16]
Please
see “Jacques Saada Can’t Deny his own words, in 1967 he was a volunteer in Israel
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