ndp – Beeshive

That was close…..

Thankfully sanity prevailed and the conservatives were defeated.

Trump thought that he had a sure thing going with Poilievre, but Trump’s constant ramblings about Canada becoming the 51st state alarmed everyone in Canada that wasn’t a follower of the Conservative / Reform / Alliance Party.

Canadians turned out in droves and handed the Conservatives a well deserved defeat. Could have been a much better defeat, but with American fake newz and American social media filling the minds of so many vulnerable people in Canada I take what we got.

The NDP almost evaporated, but this was expected to happen after the NDP abandoned their typical pro-labour, left-of-centre politics and tried to become a centrist party.

This wouldn’t be the first time a federal party imploded during an election.

The Conservatives were annihilated in October of 1993 after Lyin’ Brian destroyed the Canadian manufacturing sector with NAFTA. The ink had barely dried on Brian’s double cross when American based manufacturers started closing down their Canadian subsidiaries and moving the operations and the jobs to low wage paying states.

While NAFTA may have been great for the boys and girls on Bay Street, it was a massive knife in the back to the thousands of workers in southern Ontario that found themselves unemployed with very little prospect of employment.

The implosion of the Conservative party is what allowed the Albertan separatist parties to go from being niche parties to getting a foothold in federal politics. Today’s Conservative party is only Conservative in name. The Conservative party from the pre- Lyin’ Brian days no longer exists. The Conservative Party of Canada is now a religious theocratic separatist party.

For me the outcome of the election was a good thing as it allows Medical Assistance in Dying for mental health to proceed. If everything goes as proposed then M.A.i.D. MISUMC will become legal on March 17th, 2027.

It’s been a little on the nerve wracking side for these last few weeks.

It was bad enough in 2023 and 2024 having the carrot of M.A.i.D. dangled in front of my face only to have it yanked out of my reach because the Liberals feared the uniformed populace that was falling prey to the misinformation presented by those on the right and by the various “astroturf” campaigns funded by American dark money.

To have a small but vocal minority of Canadians clamouring for American style politics and ideologies to be brought north of the border was disturbing.

To find out that a portion of Canadians love Donald Trump and everything that Donald Trump represents was repulsive.

Had the Conservative party of Canada won, then Medical Assistance in Dying for Mental Illness as the Sole Underlying Medical Condition would have been out the door. In fact, M.A.i.D. for any reason would have probably been rescinded.

But, thankfully the CPC didn’t win.

Trump’s endorsement of Pierre Poilievre was the kiss of death for the CPC.

No, I didn’t vote for the Liberals.

I wasn’t actually going to vote at all in this election as there wasn’t a party running that I thought reflected my views. Then I realized that the next federal election won’t be until 2029. And if everything works out the way I hope it works out in 2027, then this is my last federal election.

So, I plugged my nose and cast a vote for the NDP.

I usually vote NDP provincially and Liberal federally. But when it comes to the Federal NDP they’ve never really appealed to me as they seem to be the centrist party that nobody has ever asked for.

But, with the complete lack of support that Hedy Fry has shown towards persons who were sexually abused as children by members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and with her complete lack of support for Medical Assistance in Dying for persons suffering from Mental Illness, there was no way that I could continue to support her.

The Federal election.

Well, the 2025 Federal Election is underway.

I live in Vancouver Centre.

I’m stuck between voting for the lame duck NDP or the useless federal Liberals.

The Liberal party has been kinda my default party, although I would dearly love to see Dr. Hedy Fry tossed to the curb.

I’ve lived in the West End of Vancouver since 1993.

Dr. Hedy Fry has been my federal MP since the ’90s

I needed her help back in 2012 dealing with the whole mess from Canadian Forces Base Namao. No help at all. Seriously. Her assistant was about as useless as a concrete parachute.

Then in 2020, when the Canadian Forces finally released to me the transcripts from the 1980 CFSIU investigation and the July 1980 Courts Martial which showed that the military police in 1980 and 2011 knew the full extent of the babysitter’s action, she refused to assist with my matter citing the fact that there are no military bases in Vancouver Centre.

I’ve asked to talk to her various time since the federal Liberals first flubbed on their promise to implement Medical Assistance in Dying for Mental Illness in 2023.

Yet, I have no choice but to vote for her.

In all honesty, I’d be voting for the NDP as my politics are pro-union and pro-social issue and the federal Liberals are a corporate type party. But the federal NDP has tried to drift to the right-of-centre to capture Liberal voters.

The current candidate for the NDP in Vancouver Centre, Avi Lewis, ignored the questions that I posed to him. I asked “what are your opinions on Medical Assistance in Dying for reasons of Mental Health”, and “what do you intend to do about the flaw in the pre-1998 National Defence Act that deny justice to anyone who was ever sexually abused on a military base by a person subjected to the code of service discipline prior to 1998”.

Avi Lewis never responded.

Two canvassers that were in my apartment building glad-handing for Avi refused to respond to either question and instead segued into affordable housing and other fluff of no use to me.

I’m not planning on living long enough to worry about “affording a house”.

In Vancouver Centre we’ve always had to watch out for the Conservative Party of America. Ever since the Conservatives merged with the Reform Party and the Alliance Party, marching in lockstep with American policy has always been their desire.

I used to live in Alberta, and I have relatives in Alberta, so I’m very familiar with the very weird politics in that province.

The C.R.A.Party has always posed a threat to Canada, and it will continue to do so so long as Canada refuses to crack down on American dark money in any meaningful manner.

Over the last 20 years there’s been an explosion of new condos popping up like rancid mushrooms in Vancouver Centre. A lot of these condos are investments either rented out as apartments or AirBNBs and as such the owners tend to want to vote for those who will cut taxes to the absolute minimum while allowing for the removal of zoning regulations and “red tape”. The owners of the condos tend to always vote for the CONs because they really don’t care about social issues, they just care about buying up more condos and raking in more money through rentals or through AirBNBs.

So, yet again I trundle off to the voting booth to plug my nose and fill in the circle beside Fry’s name.

Hopefully this is the last time I ever have to vote in a federal election as the next one is due in 2029 and hopefully I’m gone by 2027.

Politics

What a wild day today was.

Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation.

And a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist has become the president of the US of A.

Sir Misogyny the Orange is making wild ass claims that Canadians want to plummet down the “quality of life” rankings to join the US of A near the bottom of the list.

Vying to take Justin’s place is a man who has never worked a real job for a single day in his life, has been collecting a cushy government pension for quite some time now, and claims to support the “little guy” while calling for the age of retirement to be raised to 70 and beyond.

The fact that Christy Clark wants to throw her hat into the ring as the leader of the Federal Liberals shows just how uneducated the Canadian public really is. Christy was the premier of British Columbia after DUI Gordo stepped down. The problem with the BC Liberals is that they had nothing in common with the Liberal party in any other province or at the federal level.

The BC Liberals were the rejects left over from the collapse of the BC Social Credit party, which was as hard right and fundamentalist as they come. After the Socreds imploded under Vander Zalm the party knew that it would never be able to run as the Socreds again. So, it became the BC Liberal Party.

But the BC NDP wasn’t much better as it had veered to the far right, but it hadn’t veered right far enough for the real owners of BC. Even though the BC NDP were pissing off every union in BC and kissing billionaire ass left, right, and centre, it wasn’t enough. And when the BC NDP lost the election to the BC Liberals the leader of the BC NDP jumped into bed with BC’s own favourite billionaire.

I think that the dumbing down of Canada happened with Lyin’ Brian.

Instead of standing up to America, Brian dropped his paper bags of Karl’s money on the ground, knelt upon them, and pledged his fealty to Wall Street and to Ronnie Raygun.

And Canada has been influenced by American propaganda ever since. American propaganda is why there is such a wildly wrong interpretation of communism and socialism in the US of A.

With the absolute exception of the CBC, all Canadian Media is American owned.

Sure, just like in the oil fields, the head offices may be in Canada, but the shareholders and hedge funds are all American owned. And as such the media spews the American view.

There are Americans and Canadians that believe that the Soviet Union and China were / are communist when the Soviet Union and China have always been single party totalitarian regimes.

In the last 20 years China has veered off into some sort of hybrid mix of capitalism and totalitarianism. Meanwhile Russia veered off into some bizarre mix of capitalism and organized crime syndicates.

Communism by its very nature can’t exist in a state which enforces class stratification. For a state to be communist there can’t be “leaders”. Everyone would have to “lead”. And the state couldn’t own the means of production. Communism is where the workers own the means of production. I don’t think that any state workers in the U.S.S.R. or even pre-1990s China owned the means of production.

Socialism is the supposed condition that exists between capitalism and communism with the means of production and distribution being owned collectively for the benefit of the citizens of the country until a state of statelessness and classlessness can be obtained.

Capitalism is where the state serves to enforce the ownership of the means of production by the capitalists, and by force if force is required. Remember back to 1800s and the early 1900s when States in America would unleash state militias on unions at the bequest of the mine owners and would kill strikers to protect the assets of the owners.

It’s sad to see that there are Canadians that get all of their knowledge of America from TV shows like Beverly Hill 90210, House, Scrubs, etc.

The fact that an Australian Oligarch named Rupert Murdoch was able to worm his way into America and peddle his lies without contest shows just how unprepared the American government was for a takeover by foreign invaders.

Rupert lobbied Ronnie for the elimination of the “fairness doctrine” which led to Faux Newz, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Gavin McInness, which of course led to Canada’s very own media of the loons.

The fact that a racist from South Africa can be viewed as a “captain of industry” when his first product was a means to move money around without the scrutiny of the banks, law enforcement, and government which of course benefits one type of enterprise in particular is pretty damning.

And ever since the late ’80s the media, all owned by billionaires, has been skewing hard right and trying to convince people one both sides of the border that a fascist oligarchy is the best style of government.

The greatest trick of the billionaires has been convincing the general public that the media has veered too far to the left when in fact all the billionaires care about is spewing their propaganda in a positive light. To the billionaire class there is no right and there is no left, there’s only the serfs and the elites.

See, back in the early 1900s, America was going through a gilded age. The poor were surviving hand to mouth. American cities had massive slums that rivalled the slums of the United Kingdom. But the rich were making a killing.

But the oligarchs took it too far in the 1920s which led to the stock market crash of 1929 which plunged America into the great depression.

FDR came to the rescue with his “New Deal” which brought in all sorts of regulations and laws that prevented the stock market and the banks from acting like no limit casinos. He also raised the taxes on the multi millionaires to the point of 90% and above tax rates.

No one but an idiot would pay those tax rates. All you had to do was invest in your company, or invest in your work force, and your taxes would come tumbling down.

That’s why America progressed so far up the social ladder in the ’50s and ’60s.

But this wasn’t good enough for the plutocrats or the oligarchs.

They wanted their money without any of the social obligations that came with it.

So these fuckers started putting their kids through Ivy League schools with the goal of getting their kids into positions of government to overturn FDR’s “New Deal” policies. And they succeeded.

Since the ’70s the rich have been waging a war on the public education system. You need to destroy the public education system if you ever want to return to the gilded age. You need to brain wash the next generation into believing that being a billionaire is not a sign of mental illness but is instead a sign of brilliance. You need to brain wash the public into believing that the vote of someone making $65,000.00 per year is worth as much as someone with $120 billion dollars in wealth.