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From the Editor

an open letter to Conservative leader Steven Harper:

by Judi McLeod

June 30, 2004

Dear Steven,

It’s the second morning after Election Day, and here’s hoping you feel a darn sight better than you did yesterday.

Quitting is never the answer.

While you never made the majority you and your party hoped for, the Conservative Party is a babe of six months old compared to a toothless and aging Liberal Party.

Regardless of election tragedies like the re-election of anti-american MPs like "Damn americans...hate-those-bastards" Carolyn Parrish and the loss of Tony Clement to Colleen (Baghdad) Beaumier, it’s a brand new day in Canadian politics.

Carve up the pie in as many ways as you want to, but the arrogant and high-handed Liberal Party was forced back to minority status on Monday.

Forget about Martin saying he will govern as if he has a majority. He can’t. Fact is, Canadian voters gave him only a minority.

Forget about the deceitful Liberal message driving home the point that the Conservatives were hiding some kind of "hidden agenda" repeated the last two weeks of the campaign by their faithful media minions.

While it’s true Canada’s main television network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is state-run, and also true that the nation’s largest mass circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star is both small and capital Liberal, things are changing here as they are world wide, with statistics now indicating that increasing numbers of people are turning to alternative media and the Internet for their news.

Sure it’s disheartening that New Democrat Party leader Jack Layton, with only 19 seats, is already acting as though he’s the Prime Minister. But Jack’s always been a supreme actor and Trinity-Spadina voters threw out his wife, Olivia Chow.

Tired old Ed Broadbent may have made it back, but Layton will be lost without former Greenpeace Canada Executive Director Peter Tabuns, humiliated at the polls by incumbent Maria Minna. CUPE’s Sid Ryan will now have to hear from Michael Coren’s talk show callers that he’s a four-time loser, and Olympic-spoiler Michael Shapcott went down in big flames on Monday night, too.

If you thought Layton’s ideas sounded crazy out on the hustings, wait until he tries to launch his going-nowhere Socialist notions on an overtaxed and tired-of-politics Canadian public from the House of Commons.

Still smarting that the Liberal money they always counted on went instead to Liberal buddies in the still to be resolved sponsorship scandal will keep the Bloc Quebecois ready for the attack, and "the little guy from Shawinigan, who always knew how to placate them, ain’t ever coming back.

as the months go by, Canadian voters will discover that the federal Liberals can’t do anything about waiting lines for health care, which is under provincial jurisdiction, and the last time we saw Paul Martin he was looking pretty haggard.

UN Poster Boy Maurice Strong, who never did like the stench of defeat, is already distancing himself from protégé Martin. Bono is off singing for his supper elsewhere, and it’s going to take a lot more than Indian smudging ceremonies for Martin to find his missing streak.

So spend your summer contemplating your future, although that sounds like something Trudeau would have done. Catch your breath, and come back fresh in September.

By October, you should be planning to move your party headquarters to somewhere in Ontario. Now that the United Nations is not likely to move here without the dogged Dennis Mills, Toronto with its socialist mayor could really use the business.

Walking away from the arena is not one of your options, Mr. Harper.

Meanwhile, you’ve likely heard it before: It’s time to stand tall and fly right.

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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