The dark and dank places the NDP keep well hidden from Canadians

Without drawing too fine a point on the Velvet Touch, the bawdy house where then Coun. Jack Layton was taken by surprise during a visit from police, Canada’s New Democrat Party (NDP) has been hanging out in dank and dark places. The Layton bawdy house incident took place 15 years ago, and Layton, now NDP leader, calls the Toronto Sun dredging back up of the Velvet Touch, a smear. But it’s May 2011 and the NDP constitution is the only one not online among the other national mainstream parties running in tomorrow’s election.

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Like the Toronto Sun from whom we now know that Layton told a Toronto police officer investigating local bawdy houses that he was “one and the same” as the “John” on his driver’s license, the oft-maligned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has let Canadians in on the dirty secret of the missing federal NDP constitution. “Where in the world is the federal NDP’s constitution? It’s not on the NDP’s website, unlike any of the other national mainstream parties running in this election. Now that the NDP is within shouting distance--maybe--of forming government, a lot of people might want to take a closer look at the party, at its founding goals and principles.” (Leslie McKinnon, CBC News, April 27, 2011). “Questions to the NDP’s media hotline yield the response that the NDP constitution is “an internal document”, available to members only, and that the NDP is running on its platform, not on its constitution. And yet, anyone who wants to join the NDP has to first agree to abide by its constitution, presumably without getting a chance to read it.” For the NDP, hanging in dank and dark corners was prevalent in the 1970s and ‘80s when the provincial party held a decades long stranglehold on Toronto City Hall and the Toronto Board of Education. NDP trustees and councillors voted en bloc at city hall and school board meetings, and rule breakers were hounded out of the party for refusing to toe the line. These were the days when Coun. Jack Layton was selling the City of Toronto as a nuclear-weapons free zone. Until the Velvet Touch unearthing, Layton had been infamous for being found living in a heavily taxpayer-subsidized co-op; trying to replace cars with bicycles (during his unsuccessful 1991 mayoralty campaign); sporting a surgical mask on downtown street corners where he warned people that the air in Ontario was killing them; and setting up ‘Tent Cities’ on privately owned land. Layton went into a sulk when June Rowlands, NDP-described as the “old gray mare” trounced him 2 to 1. A sore loser, he went into one of the NDP’s most familiar modes, “underground” to sulk after election. NDP guru George Martel, a York University professor, went to the same underground when angry parents called on the Toronto Board of Education after it had been discovered he was throwing pictures of them up on the classroom screen at York University from photos taken at regular school board meetings. These pictures were identified with the caption “Genus Capitalist Pig”. The NDP has long masqueraded as ‘The Party of the Working Person’. Former Trustee David Moll got it right with the statement: “The NDP will do everything for the working man---except BE one.” That the leader of a party whose constitution preamble includes the words: “The principles of democratic socialism can be defined briefly as: That the production and distribution of goods and services shall be directed to meeting the social and individual needs of people within a sustainable environment and economy and not to the making of profit; To modify and control the operations of the monopolistic productive and distributive organizations through economic and social planning, towards these ends and where necessary the extension of the principles of social ownership,” is far scarier than the scary Stephen image they paint for Harper. That’s Marxism, the same kind that sees our once glorious neighbours south of the border heading down the road of guaranteed bankruptcy. No wonder the NDP constitution is not there for the eyes of the Canadian public and why it remains in the same dank and dark place as Layton’s visit to the Velvet Touch. But while the Velvet Touch, where paid sexual acts once took place on a daily basis, can at least live up in part to the description “velvet”, it’s an iron fist Canadians can expect from Jack Layton’s lifelong brand of Marxism. Keep the antiseptic sunshine on the dark and dank hide-y-holes of the slippery fish NDP. If Jack Layton gets to add the words Prime Minister before his name tomorrow, it will be the worst thing that ever happened to Canada and the same kind of fate the Province of Ontario met when Jack’s buddy, Bob Rae became Ontario’s first socialist premier. Canada will not become part of the European Union as Council of Canadians activists Mel Hurtig and Maude Barlow have been pushing throughout this campaign, but will become part and parcel of the North American Union being pushed by the global elite loving lib-left. (Link) Do not set Canada on the direct path of the North American Union with your vote tomorrow.