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To a social conservative the triumph of fiscal conservatism or neoconservatism is all-but- irrelevant when compared to the cultural, social, moral, spiritual, and religious crises of late modernity.
However, the typical impact of the NDP in Canada, when deployed in support of the excesses of left- liberalism, appears in its own way as damaging to the social body as the capitalism, consumerism, and globalization which it sometimes quite aptly criticizes.
Regardless of today's apparent return of fiscal or economic conservatism in Canada, the NDP has been able to fundamentally transform the social and cultural ideas and policies of the Liberal Party and most of the P.C. Party (and thereby of most of the country) away from social conservatism.
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 Canada's winner faces uncertain future - The Boston Globe
OTTAWA -- The winner of Canada's election, Stephen Harper, began tackling the challenge yesterday of pushing his Conservative Party agenda of tax cuts and military spending through a Parliament that he does not control.
Harper, a 46-year-old economist who will be the country's first right-wing prime minister in 12 years, won 124 of the 308 seats in the House of Commons in Monday's election.
The vote was as much a protest against the Liberal government as it was a vote for Harper, whose opponents accuse him of wanting to impose a far-right social agenda on Canada.
www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2006/01/25/canadas_winner_faces_uncertain_future   (261 words)

  
 Canada's new right-wing leader faces tough fight - Boston.com
The winner of Canada's election began tackling the challenge on Tuesday of pushing his Conservative Party agenda of tax cuts and more defense spending through a Parliament he does not control.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The winner of Canada's election began tackling the challenge on Tuesday of pushing his Conservative Party agenda of tax cuts and more defense spending through a Parliament he does not control.
Minority governments in Canada rarely last more than 18 months and the gossamer-thin nature of Harper's administration means there is little chance he will bow to demands from some in his party to clamp down on sensitive social issues such as gay marriage and abortion.
www.boston.com /news/world/canada/articles/2006/01/24/canada_takes_tentative_step_to_right_in_election_1138080889   (710 words)

  
 A Treatise on Canada's Immigration System
Canada’s current immigration and refugee determination processes are not only ridiculously lengthy, costly and inefficient, but also discriminatory, regulated by an Act that is self-contradictory, and too easily illegally exploited.
Canada is even entitled to exclude certain immigrants entirely, and so is equally entitled to admit them only after the payment of a tax or fee, or the imposition of rules or restrictions.
Canada, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Canada’s Immigration Law, (Ottawa: Dept. of Citizenship and Immigration, 1996) 6.
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 ESR | January 20, 2003 | Canada's socialist "third party": The NDP's influence in Canada
To a social conservative the triumph of fiscal conservatism or neoconservatism is all-but-irrelevant when compared to the cultural, social, moral, spiritual, and religious crises of late modernity.
George Parkin Grant, Canada's leading traditionalist philosopher, wrote "...the directors of General Motors and the followers of Professor Marcuse sail down the same river in different boats." Both current-day capitalism and left-liberalism are seen as equally hostile to the notions of true community and true nationhood.
However, the typical impact of the NDP in Canada, when deployed in support of the excesses of left-liberalism, appears in its own way as damaging to the social body as the capitalism, consumerism, and globalization which it sometimes quite aptly criticizes.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0103/0103ndp.htm   (1298 words)

  
 BC Neo Con: British Columbia Neo-Conservative
Neoconservatism and neoliberalism are labels given to a strains of political thought in Canadian politics, that began in the 1980s and rose to prominence in the 1990s, especially in Ontario, Western Canada, and the federal government.
Neoliberalism in Canada broadly parallels the rise of neoliberal policies in the United States under Bill Clinton and the Labour Party's "Third Way" in Britain.
Neoconservatism, on the other hand, broke with the old Progressive Conservatives by encouraging closer political cooperation with the United States, and was aloof towards the party's interventionist Keynesian economics and traditional support of Canada's colonial ties to Britain.
bcneocon.com   (367 words)

  
 TOQ-AuthorF LNames-Subject-Vol 4 No 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Neoconservatism also illustrates the central theme of the second article in this series: In alliance with virtually the entire organized American Jewish community, neoconservatism is a vanguard Jewish movement with close ties to the most extreme nationalistic, aggressive, racialist and religiously fanatic elements within Israel.
Neoconservatism is better described in general as a complex interlocking professional and family network centered around Jewish publicists and organizers flexibly deployed to recruit the sympathies of both Jews and non-Jews in harnessing the wealth and power of the United States in the service of Israel.
A watershed event in neoconservatism was the statement of November 1975 by UN Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan in response to the UN resolution equating Zionism with racism.
www.theoccidentalquarterly.com /vol4no2/km-understandIII.html   (16733 words)

  
 | Reviews / Comptes Rendus | Labour/Le Travail, 53 | The History Cooperative
While he discusses Canada's participation in the construction of the new forms of continental and global governance, Clarkson purposefully highlights the role of these institutions of global governance as "external" sources of structural change to the Canadian state.
The general conclusion that flows from these detailed and insightful chapters is that is was the embrace of neoconservatism by Canadian politicians and bureaucrats that explains the substantial, and often parallel, policy changes that ushered in a dramatically altered approach to governance beginning in the early 1980s.
To argue in favour of emphasizing the ideological decisions associated with the rise of domestic neoconservatism is to ignore the "global character" of the neoconservative turn.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/53/br_16.html   (1213 words)

  
 IS U.S. NEOCONSERVATISM DEAD?
  For "neoconservatism" (a term coined by the American socialist Michael Harrington in the 1970s) was essentially "new" to the 1970s and 1980s, and seemed to revive in 1994 with the conservative Republican sweep of Congress.
  As we shall see later, the wing of neoconservatism shaped by the ideas of the political philosopher Leo Strauss is primarily concerned with the survival of the culture of the West in the face of liberalism.
  Indeed, the ideological lineage of neoconservatism can be traced back to this simple belief that a populace is always in need of an enemy to fight, so that they can be reminded of the meaningfulness and precariousness of their culture and polity.
www.lsus.edu /la/journals/ideology/contents/neoconservatism.htm   (6205 words)

  
 Capital Punishment in Canada
The death penalty was abolished in Canada in 1976 after a debate that lasted 98 hours.
If we look back to 1976, the year the death penalty was abolished in Canada, threats of death were being made to Members of Parliament and their immediate families from pro death penalty advocates.
Ask "Do you support the use of capital punishment (the death penalty) in response to heinous capital crimes?" And a majority of Canadians will place their "x" beside the word "Yes." 72 per cent, and perhaps higher, will make the decision they know to be the right one for all Canadians.
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 Irving Kristol reveals the true meaning of neoconservatism
Neoconservatism is what the late historian of Jacksonian America, Marvin Meyers, called a "persuasion," one that manifests itself over time, but erratically, and one whose meaning we clearly glimpse only in retrospect.
Neoconservatism is the first variant of American conservatism in the past century that is in the "American grain." It is hopeful, not lugubrious; forward-looking, not nostalgic; and its general tone is cheerful, not grim or dyspeptic.
Neoconservatism seems to peopled with folks who drifted away from some of the more obviously unworkable positions of the left, but who retain the secular utopianism implicit in using the state to pursue transcendent, or as Kristol puts it, ideological ends.
www.amnation.com /vfr/archives/001679.html   (13582 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Though Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was a Tory, the Party spent the majority of its history in opposition as the nation's number two federal party, behind the Liberals.
Although adhering to economic philosophies similar to those originally advanced by 19th-century Liberals (known confusingly as both neoliberalism and neoconservatism), the need to soften their social conservatism led the Canadian Alliance to agree to the name "Conservative Party of Canada" for the new party, to market themselves better to the electorate.
Diefenbaker was able to win most of the parliamentary seats in Western Canada, much of those in Ontario, and, with the support of the Union Nationale provincial government, a large number in Quebec.
progressive-conservative-party-of-canada.iqnaut.net   (2666 words)

  
 Jamaica Gleaner News - CANADA: Canada wakes up to new Conservative government - Wednesday | January 25, 2006
Conservative Party of Canada leader and Prime Minister-elect, Stephen Harper, and his family celebrate in Calgary yesterday.
The result was a huge triumph for Harper, a 46-year-old economist who created the Conservatives in late 2003 by pushing through the merger of two squabbling right-wing parties.
The Liberals, long viewed as Canada's natural governing party, slumped in the polls after police said in late December they were investigating whether the finance minister's office had leaked information about proposed tax changes.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060125/int/int1.html   (633 words)

  
 Shaun Huston - WOU -- GEOG 435/535 Sample Précis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Clarkson stresses that neoconservatism is both a domestic and a global force in Canadian politics, as is the anti-globalization movement.
Clarkson suggest that Canada as a distinct territory will survive because the U.S. has not interest in annexing it, but the real question is not so much whether Canada will survive, but in what form.
He stresses that the form that Canada takes in the future is still largely in the hands of Canadians and Canadian institutions, and that moving away from neoconservative globalism and toward a more nationally-oriented Canadian state with commitments to equality, sustainability, and socially progressive governance will entail paying an economic price.
www.wou.edu /~hustons/archive/USCanadasample.html   (598 words)

  
 Amazon.com: NeoConservatism: Why We Need It: Books: Douglas Murray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The first chapter is used to provide a brief history of neoconservatism from its origins in the thought of 20th Cent.
Socialism is a bygone fantasy, and that leaves basically only democracy or one of the variants of autocracy that plague the world with backwardness and threats of violence and destruction.
Douglas Murray begins by stating that "neoconservatism is not a political party, or a social set, but a way of looking at the world.
www.amazon.com /NeoConservatism-Why-Need-Douglas-Murray/dp/1594031479   (2491 words)

  
 The Republic :: From the academy to the legislature
Irving Kristol, the founder of neoconservatism demonized the freedom of the nineteen sixties.
But, luckily for Canada, it is sagging badly in the polls.
Shadia Drury is Canada Research Chair in Social Justice at the University of Regina.
www.republic-news.org /archive/83-repub/83_drury.htm   (1200 words)

  
 Politics Canada Forum - Understanding Jewish Influence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The long-term consequence of Zionism is that the U.S. is on the verge of attempting to completely transform the Arab/Muslim world to produce governments that accept Israel and whatever fate it decides for the Palestinians, and, quite possibly, to set the stage for further Israeli expansionism.
They have aggressively pursued their goals, not only in purging more traditional conservatives from their positions of power and influence, but also in reorienting US foreign policy in the direction of hegemony and empire.
Neoconservatism also illustrates the central theme of the second article in this series: In alliance with virtually the entire organized American Jewish community, neoconservatism is a vanguard Jewish movement with close ties to the most extreme nationalistic, aggressive, racialist and religiously fanatic elements within Israel.2
www.canadawebpages.com /pc-forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=813   (876 words)

  
 Neoconservatism (Canada)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In Canada, the National Post, normally so rabidly pro-American that its...
Canadian neoconservatives emulate their American counterparts on most social and economic issues.
David Frum, former Bush II speechwriter and National Post columnist, is from Canada.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/n/ne/neoconservatism__canada_.html   (87 words)

  
 Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada. by Alvin Finkle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
More useful are Harrison's attempts to demonstrate the relationship between Reform's rise and the global rise of neoconservatism with its rejection of the postwar 'welfare state' consensus.
Disillusioned by the existing parties because they were allegedly profligate when in office and controlled by central Canada, they set out to found a new party which would be staunchly conservative in economic matters (though Roberts was more moderate than the other three) and provide the West with a clear voice.
But Statistics Canada demonstrated in a 1991 study that decreases in corporate taxation rather than increases in social spending accounted for most of the deficit.
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 Neoconservatism: What Is It? - OD Board
They created and spread neoconservatism largely for one reason: to use America in an ongoing effort to protect the Jewish state of Israel.
Neoconservatives and their supporters often point to the relatively few non-Jewish advocates of neoconservatism as "proof" that the movement isn\'t Jewish.
\r\nImportantly, neoconservatism is a proactive, not a reactive, movement.
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 Neoconservatism and neoliberalism in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 The New American -  The Pied Pipers of Neoconservatism - August 13, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Some of us tried to show fellow Americans that something has to be wrong when that long-standing and extremely beneficial relationship with Canada had to be "improved" by establishing 20 commissions armed with stacks and stacks of regulations.
It was his initial contribution to neoconservatism, something he slyly advocated at first but has more obviously favored throughout the bulk of his career.
Defining neoconservatism: in his 1995 book, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, Irving Kristol described the dogma of the neocon: "[W]e are conservative," he said, "but different in certain aspects from the conservatism of the Republican Party.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2001/08-13-2001/vo17no17_neoconservatism.htm   (3494 words)

  
 Canadian Democratic Movement - Alternative News Media on Democracy, Politics, Trade, Environment, Military and Money in ...
The impact of globalization and neoconservatism is examined extensively in the second part of Clarkson's study, which examines how the functions of the Canadian state have altered.
Clarkson addresses the changes in a number of policy areas such as macro and monetary policy, regulatory, industrial and trade policy, as well as social, labour, environmental, cultural and foreign policy.
He combines a global knowledge of the international political economy with a micro concern for detailed analyses of policy issues, and concludes that the responsibility for Canada's predicament lies less with external forces, than with Canadians and the governments they elected.
www.canadiandemocraticmovement.ca /books-index-req-view_subcat-sid-2.html   (499 words)

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