As an administrator of
CRUSH, aka,
Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper, my focus has been on the following question for quite a few years now: Just what would it take to unseat Stephen Harper? Somehow he has managed to merge the Canadian Alliance Party and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada; obtain a minority government in 2006; obtain a majority government in 2010. Say what you will about the guy, but he isn't stupid. However, we must all realize that Harper has utilized some pretty low brow tactics to hijack that PMO. In a 2003 speech, Harper cited the "rule of law" as a key conservative value. Let's look at the record. Just how many Canadians know that the Conservative Party of Canada led by Doug Finley, now deceased, and the Conservative Fund of Canada, led by Irving Gerstein, still here, were actually charged, tried, and convicted of election fraud for their "in/out" election campaign financing tactics? How many Canadians are aware that not only was the Harper Government found in contempt of Parliament, the only Westminster Parliamentary government ever held in such contempt, they actually still are to this day? How many Canadians are aware that a judge actually stated in their judgment at the Federal Court of Canada that the Harper Government was guilty of being in "disregard of the Rule of Law" over their forced shut down of the Canadian Wheat Board? I mean, seriously?! then there is the conviction of a Conservative Party of Canada soldier for illegal robocalls. In that judge's ruling, it is stated that due to the nature of the Conversative Party of Canada's CIMS, aka, Constituency Information Management System, there must have been a conspiracy to commit election fraud at the highest level of the party. Recall that the highest level of the Conservative Party of Canada was previously convicted of election fraud.
So again, what would it take to unseat Stephen Harper? We here at Canadians Rallying to Unseat Stephen Harper have evolved a theory about what it would take to unseat Steve. A grass roots 'ABC, Anything But Conservative, voting approach. How that would play out in practice could end up being more of the same vote splitting we have previously seen in elections. So Canadians who would like to heave Steve would have to be smart about it. Don't expect the opposition Parties themselves to be onboard with this grass roots approach. When a person chooses to run as a candidate of a political party, there is a considerable amount of time commitment and money involved. It isn't nice to hear your party leader say, "Vote for the candidate most likely to win." Threre have been many who have called for a change in Canada's "first past the post electoral system." You can be sure that Steve's party won't implement that. we need to unseat him first at the very least. Another compaign that has cropped up out of the woodwork is a "reject your ballot" movement. There is considerable evidence that this call to ruin your, or reject your ballot, is being run by Conservative Party of Canada operatives working to get the pissed off undecidedes to run into the ditch. Aside from Steve's claim to be a party who holds the "value" of the "rule of law" in high esteem, another one of his stated values would be "family values". "Families are the building blocks of society," he said to CIVITAS in 2003. Well actually, no Steve, the "building blocks" of Society are Human Beings, each of us individual Human Beings. Are you saying that single people, or those with no surviving family are useless to society? People who are orphans, divorced, had a spouse who away, those who have lost a child, then really, you don't count, you aren't a "building block of society" anymore according to Steve. This is why Steve only targets "families" in his party propaganda. Another thing that Steve mentioned in his 2003 CIVITAS speech was that the Conservative Party of Canada was a "coalition of the willing" split 50/50 between fiscal and social Conservatives. Steve wisely knew that he couldn't start out by implementing the less popular Social Conservative agenda at the beginning of his government, so he could only incrementally move in that direction. I am pretty certain that Steve would be more emboldened to throw the social conservative half of his coalition some red meat if he gets re-elected with a majority government. And there would be nothing we could do to stop him.
So what would it take to unseat Stephen Harper?
What more can I say?
