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Originally Posted by Seashore
no caste,
I wish you were an American so that you would have standing and could be one of the those citizens who support the Articles of Freedom and what the delegates have done by taking part in the recommendations they have put together.
Thank you for your interest.
Is there an equivalent movement in Canada?
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Your government will just have to invite me in! Actually our CDN Ambassador, Gary Doer, is a really good guy.
We are going through A LOT right now. Torture allegations in Afghanistan, kind of lined up with US national security and intelligence, a sneaky SPP/NAU Prime Minister, weak Liberal Opposition, a very steady NDP party and another party that represents French Canada (Bloc Quebecois). There's hand wringing about our Constitutional monarchy, since the Queen is getting on and many wonder about succession. Her head is on our coins, everything is very integrated with the UK monarchy, legally, constitutionally, historically. A republic is on the table for a lot of people.
Provincially, there's a new populist movement in Alberta. We have 10 provinces and 3 northern territories. On the whole, the four parties seem to work for most people, I think. There was a big merger in 2003 between 2 conservative more rightish parties, Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives (like Reps), in order to avoid split votes - the Liberals (like Dems) have suffered on account of it.
BUT - there are A LOT of accountability issues with this merged Conservative bunch IMO, stinky. Unfortunately, it all translates to national political apathy too, i.e. voter turnout's been waning, and the really excited people aren't
much represented in government.
PS We have Communists, Marxists, Independents too!