Your help is needed
Today I am asking for the help of all who can offer ideas of how to contact significent persons interested in a change of Federal Government from the Conservative / Reformers and Liberals of yesteryear policies . You know - the party's whose MPs take cash in Brown envelopes , and send untendered jobs to friends . Ignore Canadians at risk in other countries , etc .
How do we contact Students , Women of all ages , Working Canadians , and Seniors ?
Please email me your ideas - as a comment below or more privately via email to me directly ;
pdpofcanada@gmail.com
If you are retired or have some spare time available in the evening or weekends , and would like to help our party contact people , please contact me . We need your help in all Provinces and the north .
posted by Don Wilson at
8:41 AM
1 Comments:
Hello again Don,
Rather than replying by private email exchanges, I would like, if acceptable, to express the following as a comment on your forum.
Your ideology for a new Federal party is fine but the key ingredient to launch such an endeavour is a policy statement. If you have a business graduate among your cohorts have him or her draw up a business plan outline. Fit a policy platform into the structure beginning with a mission statement and progressing into a schedule of policy initiatives even if projected over the 6 to 8 years referred to in your email. Policy initiatives must be new, dynamic, and ground breaking if your party intends to supplant the status quo. Remember the Conservatives were born as a result of the complete collapse of the PC party (2 seats) after Mulroney handed the reins of power and a gigantic deficit to Kim Campbell after a solid majority in the previous election. The party made the mistake of believing politicians can ignore the wants of the people. That is proving true as Harper fails to gain majority-polling numbers all these years later.
Jack Layton is a typical NDP leader and probably still retains grass root support. The party does not have a populous voter base, mainly some diehard supporters. Every NDP party from coast to coast must appeal to the hard-line labour union faction and left wing socialist minorities to keep from becoming irrelevant. Remember the party spawned such notables as Tommy Douglas (the father of socialized health care), David, and Stephen Lewis, Ed Broadbent (considered the best prime ministerial candidate in his time in every poll), but couldn’t turn that into official opposition status. Canadians traditionally vote for the major party offering the best platform to meet the moment’s needs. Lately that created minority governments that will continue until one party leader verges on dynamic. Most NDP members gain reelection by working one on one with constituents to solve personal needs.
Don’t rule out Bob Rae when it comes to a dynamic leader. Rae won Ontario with an NDP government after decades of PC rule followed by a short term, inexperienced Liberal government. While Ontario Premier, Rae alienated socialists and his own party leaders by refusing to institute an NDP doctorate in the province while leaning more to the Liberal center. The man is a brilliant speaker, personable and an intelligent Rhodes Scholar. Rae very rarely loses and when he does, it is usually against superior odds or engineered by Bob Rae and his closest advisors.
I don’t think there is anyone that can predict the future of Liberal leader Stephane Dion and for that matter the current Liberal party. The party has used up its traditional governing status by sitting on their hands in support of the inept attempts at governing by the “New Conservatives” under Stephen Harper. If the party backs down on the immigration bill now working its way to a vote, the writing will be on the wall and the chance to keep Harper from majority status will vanish. With the possibility of an embarrassing Liberal defeat, the strength of people like Michael Ignatieff and possibly Bob Rae might disappear. There will be another leadership convention with lightweight rookies like Gerard Kennedy, Martha Hall-Findlay and David McGuinty among others trying to become super stars. As previously mentioned, until the Liberal leader selection process is modernized and young forward-thinking delegates replace the old guard, Liberals will languish as the almost a government party. Suspicion of corruption and self-interest by Liberals and most other parties run too deep for a band-aid solution even for the traditional governing Liberals.
There lies the key to your fledgling party success. The first step must be a policy paper diametrically opposed to the current structure followed by short, irreversible statements on major current issues staying away from the raising and lowering flags and other trivial so-called major issues. The real issues are the economy, infrastructure, healthcare, Afghanistan, immigration, and stability for the middle class through tax and fee restructuring leading to reduction and a complete review of the underworked, overstaffed public service attacking the behemoth at federal, provincial, and municipal levels through funding reforms.
It is a beginning for what Canada really needs from a governing party.
April 6, 2008 8:01 AM
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