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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
An Act of Conscience
Joe Comuzzi has resigned from cabinet over the same-sex marriage bill. He swore to his constituents that he would uphold the traditional definition of marriage, and since Paul Martin won't let his ministers vote their conscience, Mr. Comuzzi followed his conscience right out the door, and onto the back bench.
The CBC had the unmitigated gall to say "You would think this would be big news across Canada, but it's not."
And whose fault is that, Mr. Hannomansing? Could it be the fact that the MSM has buried it? After all, it doesn't jibe with our ideals of the perfect Canada, where people of the same sex copulate with each other on the streets of Toronto at what is ostensibly a family-friendly celebration of diversity.
My friend, whose husband works for the CBC, remarked to me one night "The CBC, where same sex marriage isn't just encouraged - it's mandatory!"
Posted by RightGirl on June 28, 2005 in Canadian Politics | Permalink
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I propose that the Canadian flag be flown on Canada Day---upside down! This is the universal marine sign of distress. If ever a country was in trouble, it's Canada today.
Posted by: Patrick B | 2005-06-28 5:54:04 PM
Years ago when I visited the CBC Ottawa studios on a school trip, our teacher (a very broad-minded guy) came out of the washroom grinning like an idiot. He burst into laughter as he told us, "There's two people having sex in the men's room!". This was at about 1pm on a weekday, in a main floor washroom off a busy hallway near the entrance.
If not mandatory at the CBC, then highly advisable.
Posted by: Justzumgai | 2005-06-28 6:08:40 PM
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TORONTO - After living as a fugitive in Canada for more that a year, one of Italy's most powerful mob bosses, Antonio Commisso, was arrested yesterday near his home outside Toronto. (Globe & Mail)
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Posted by: maz2 | 2005-06-28 6:20:37 PM
I was driving home today and turned on CBC radio. They had some forum-style discussion going on with three regulars (apparently this was the last show of the season) and the host was asking them for their opinion on this last session of parliament and on the political stories of the season. When he asked "what was the low point?" they all chimed in "oh, Grewal, absolutely". I thought, hmm, the PMO was caught out on tape gutting the most important principles of our democracy, and here is a Liberal-sponsored national network saying that the issue was the guy who pushed "REC".
The host asked "Harper's barbecue tour: will it help him or hurt him?" They all agreed "mm,mm" with the inference of the rhetorical question even as it was being asked, one snorting that it would not only hurt him, but BADLY. "He's just a policy wonk", one fellow summed up in concurrance with the utterances of the other two.
When asked what the high point was, one of them said "definitely Paul Martin's speech to the nation" -- referring of course to the time right around the illegal, glad-handing, MSM-promoted spending spree, and the red-handed vote-buying attempts, when Paul Martin decided that a Liberal party in a contemptible crisis was the same as a national crisis, one which warranted free time on the CBC.
Being in Alberta and hearing the self-satisfied arrogance of these poncy self-important Toronto-Liberal shills is almost too much to take.
The CBC is so out of touch with the non-Ontario part of Canada that no amount of self-congratulatory flat-waving on their part could ever justify the institution ever again. When the Conservatives get into power I hope they make it one of their first priorities to pull the rug out from these bureaucrat-whores who pretend to be journalists. How these people commandeer our airwaves using our money is beyond me. Their political coverage is so shamelessly biased as to be disgusting -- it's a perfect expression of southern Ontario's smug certainty that it IS Canada. Well, it's not, and in fact it's starting to resemble Marie Antoinette's bedroom window more than anything else.
It really is time to start undoing the damage caused to this country. Clearing out the CBC, top to bottom, would be a good place to start.
Posted by: EBD | 2005-06-28 7:42:57 PM
EBD, I have a question.
If the Conservative Party of Canada forms a government, doesn't the CBC become a Conservative-sponsored national network? Or would they just sell it off?
As I remember, under Mulroney, the CBC was whittled to a stick in cutbacks to their funding. As were passenger trains, another thing that used to be available to Canadians from coast to coast. O, they still run… now and again. But in a much reduced state. One of the things this country was founded on, the railway, a steel link from sea to shining sea, was turned into a frayed string.
There is talk of the Tribes of Canada—well, how can we be united if the one thing dedicated to forming a Canadian identity and culture is tossed aside as unprofitable?
Posted by: twobarrels | 2005-06-28 10:02:49 PM
Is it really an act of conscience to stay in the party that has stabbed you and your constituents in the back? Pat O'Brien performed a true act of conscience, sitting as an independent and voting against the Liberal and NDP budgets. Joe Comuzzi, to me, looks like a weasel.
Posted by: NCF TO | 2005-06-28 10:05:29 PM
Twobarrels, the CBC promotes the Liberal viewpoint not specifically because of Liberal funding, but because within the CBC culture it is mandatory to do so. If the Conservatives form the next government, that wouldn't change. I hope that any CPC government would cut off the news arm of the CBC altogether, leaving it to do the sort of things that private broadcasters don't find profitable enough to do -- promoting opera, history, nature shows, that "PBS" kind of thing.
No government should be a news provider; it's just a bad idea. "Government journalist" -- that's a no-starter, to me. Terry Milewski, Keith Boags, Rick Boguski and Mansbridge are bureaucrats, not journalists. They just pass along Liberal talking points, which is an insult to the rest of Canada. Mansbridge can't even think on his feet -- his job is to be stentorian, and promote the Libs. (There are exceptions in the CBC; Christina Lawand would find success with any private news gathering organization, because she has a drive to state the truth.)
You said that the CBC is dedicated to forming a Canadian identity and culture. I happen to disagree with that assessment. To me they are dedicated to promoting a foreign culture, that of the southern Ontario Liberal, with the assumption that the Liberal mindset is synonymous with being Canadian. It is not.
Posted by: EBD | 2005-06-29 12:16:24 AM
A message just sent to Mr Ibbitson of the Globe:
'True Intolerance
Dear Mr Ibbitson,
In your Globe article "So much political blood shed over this vote", June 29, you write:
"Healthy conservatism...does not, or should not, assert the right of white, Christian heterosexual males of a certain age to limit the rights of everyone else. The past 100 years of social history has been dedicated, on good days, to constraining the dominance of this minority...And congratulate yourself [reader]. You are part of the most diverse, tolerant and open-minded place on Earth."
Since it was that minority that has controlled politics and Parliament for the last century, it follows that the minority in fact constrained itself and actually expanded the rights of everyone else. For that reality you should have been congratulating these people instead of presenting them as ogres to be feared and loathed.
I would also remind you that it was the Conservative government of Sir Robert Borden that gave the franchise to women in Canada, and that it was John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservatives who enacted the Bill of Rights. It was Brian Mulroney's government that took a very strong lead in opposing apartheid in South Africa.
The first Chinese-Canadian MP (1957) was Douglas Jung, a Progressive Conservative--"he vowed not to join the Liberal Party of Canada because of its racist legislation against Chinese in the past". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dou...ki/ Douglas_Jung
And the present group of Conservative MPs includes substantial number of women and non-whites.
It is you who are intolerant and close-minded.
Regards,
Mark Collins
Ottawa'
Posted by: Mark Collins | 2005-06-29 6:48:09 AM
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