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Topic: Neoconservatism and neoliberalism in Canada


  
 Neoliberalism - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Neoliberalism is a description of the revived form of economic liberalism that became increasingly important in international economic policy discussions from the 1970s onwards.
Likewise, these critics argue that Neoliberalism is often at odds with fair trade and other movements that argue that labor rights and social justice should have a greater priority in international relations and economics.
To critics of neoliberalism, these two principles represent parts of the " trickle-down theory," i.e., that under free-market capitalism, economic growth and technological change benefit even the poorest countries and people, even if that process is dominated by multinational corporations, rich domestic elites, and organizations such as the IMF dominated by rich countries' financiers.
www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Neoliberalism   (3663 words)

  
 Test Page
Neoliberal policies also suggest empowerment of local governments as well as non-governmental organizations to directly allocate funds for environmental reforms instead of the centralized government planning and financing (Burgess 75).
Neoliberalism, although a set of economic and political principles, was used by the United States in the early 1980's as a tool to politically shape third world countries away from socialism and towards an economy which better fostered democracy.
Neoliberal policies and theory is relatively new, only spanning the last twenty-five years as a way to stabilize as well as grow floundering economies.
www.towson.edu /polsci/irencyc/T9840108/test.htm   (1403 words)

  
 Progressive Conservative Party of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Though Canada's first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald was a Tory the party spent majority of its history in opposition as nation's number two party behind the Liberals.
Although adhering to philosophies similar to those originally advanced by liberals (known confusingly as both neoliberalism and neoconservatism) the need to emphasize their social led the Canadian Alliance to agree to name "Conservative Party of Canada" for the party to market themselves better to the
The steep decline in the party's support and the impact of the first past the post system used in Canada resulted in collapse of the Conservative parliamentary caucus: the went from being the majority party to only two seats in the House of which was not enough to maintain official party status.
www.freeglossary.com /Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada   (2314 words)

  
 Boston IMC: newswire/185363
Because neoliberalization, in so far as it opens up the market, globally as well as within nations, in so far as it did that, it gave the Chinese an opportunity to suddenly venture into the global market in ways that could not easily be controlled from elsewhere.
DH: The first burst of neoliberalization in the 1970s and early 1980s occurred in a situation of very low rates of capital accumulation, and therefore the general argument was made that we need to change the way the economy is organized in order to get growth back on track.
Neoliberalism was not doing very well in its pure form, in terms of regenerating capital accumulation, but what it was doing very well was redistributing wealth towards the upper classes.
boston.indymedia.org /newswire/display/185363/index.php   (8433 words)

  
 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Neoliberalism: the awakening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Neoliberalism and neoliberal governance—which in the United States seemed to be closely aligned (confusingly enough) with neoconservatism.
Neoliberalism has the advantage of focusing attention on a more specific set of policies – the so-called “Washington Consensus.” A particular vision of modernity that is hegemonically being forced upon the world.
“neoliberalism” may inform/structure/influence/construct/constrain/and so on rich and specific expressions of lived human experience—& it may be, for many contexts, absolutely necessary to describe the relevance of “neoliberal” policy annd ideology during the course of an ethnography.
savageminds.org /2006/05/16/neoliberalism-the-awakening   (5214 words)

  
 n+1
Neoliberals revived the 19th-century faith in the free market as the final arbiter of human affairs, a utopian certainty that had been dampened by the two World Wars and the Great Depression.
When, in the 1990s, after the end of the Cold War, the neoliberal ideology began to sweep the world, its proponents were able to identify it as “globalization,” making it sound like an inevitable trend, not a set of political choices.
The war, like the spread of neoliberalism around the globe over the years since the fall of the Soviet Union, has been bloody and painful, yet the men and women in charge of our politics are sustained by their apocalyptic, evangelical faith that great good will come of it in the end.
www.nplusonemag.com /klein.html   (3774 words)

  
 Neoconservatism (United States) - Knowmore
But domestic policy does not define neoconservatism; it is a movement founded on, and perpetuated by an aggressive approach to foreign policy, free trade, opposition to communism during the Cold War, support for beleaguered liberal democracies such as Israel and Taiwan and opposition to Middle Eastern and other states that are perceived to support terrorism.
As compared with traditional conservatism and libertarianism, which sometimes exhibites an isolationist strain, neoconservatism is characterized by an increased emphasis on defense capability, a willingness to challenge regimes deemed hostile to the values and interests of the United States, pressing for free-market policies abroad, and promoting democracy and freedom.
Thus, according to Ryn, neoconservatism is analogous to Bolshevism: in the same way that the Bolsheviks wanted to destroy established ways of life throughout the world to replace them with communism, the neoconservatives want to do the same, only imposing free-market capitalism and American-style "liberal democracy" instead of socialism.
www.knowmore.org /index.php/Neoconservatism_(United_States)   (6379 words)

  
 Individual rights information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
One of the key differences between the two documents is that some rights in the Canadian Charter can be overridden by governments if they deliberately do so, and "the resulting balance of individual rights and social rights remains appropriate to a free and democratic society" after the change.
In contrast, in the United States, no such override exists (not even in theory, as is the case in Canada), and judicial activism has been the norm in the interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
Canada, in which the individual is recognized as having a right to plant native plants in defiance of any social control, as part of the existing "right of free expression" and "freedom of conscience".
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Individual_rights   (1010 words)

  
 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Neoconservatism -- strictly a U.S. term -- refers to the views of a subclass of conservatives who support a more assertive foreign policy coupled with one or more other facets of ideological conservatism.
In Canada Conservatism followed British tradition well up into the 1980s, when the leadership of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney brought with it Reagan-style economic liberalism and free trade.
The new party is arguably right-wing or neoconservative, although in early 2005 its integrated political platform and program had yet to be drawn, due to early elections pushed by Liberal Prime minister Paul Martin in 2004.
www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Conservative.html   (6924 words)

  
 Canadian Dimension / Articles / The Miller Regime and Suburban Growth Politics: The 2006 Municipal Elections in the GTA
In this heartland of central Canadian neoliberalism and neoconservatism, a decade-long trend towards politicizing explosive growth continued.
The stranglehold of neoliberal urbanism — and the political tensions and economic contradictions these policies have created — is likely to continue.
Factors such as globalization and imperialism, neoliberalism, the rise of the new economy, the gendered and racial division of labour and how they contribute to the rise of spatially-concentrated poverty in Toronto are not discussed in any explicit way.
canadiandimension.com /articles/2006/11/20/735/trackback   (3173 words)

  
 Neoliberalism - FX Reserves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In foreign policy, neoliberalism favors the opening of foreign markets by political means, using diplomacy, economic pressure and, for some neoliberals, military might.
Critics also protest the fact that neoliberal policies give multinational corporations economic power over democratically elected governments, as these corporations can use their abilities to withdraw or infuse capital (and therefore affect jobs and the economy) as political leverage.
Critics also claim that these claims are contradicted by the empirical record.
www.fxreserves.com /article/neoliberalism.htm   (3607 words)

  
 Interactivist Info Exchange | Brian Holmes, "Continental Drift"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
But if we do not succeed in understanding both of these religious revivals as counter-movements in response to the social stress of neoliberalism, then we will probably be powerless to do anything about their continuing development.
On the one hand, the very formation of these blocs, at the macropolitical level, shows how the neoliberal utopia of a so-called “free market” on a world scale, articulated by regulatory institutions such as the IMF and the WTO, is impossible to constitute and can only provoke resistance.
But much more interestingly, on the micropolitical scale, the formally constituted regional blocs allow us to see how the centers of capitalist accumulation continually internalize their contradictions, while negotiating them in a much more violent way wherever the significant border lines are drawn.
info.interactivist.net /analysis/05/09/27/131214.shtml?tid=9   (3003 words)

  
 Your Lying Eyes: Connecticut to Accept Venezuelan Charity
Neoliberalism as in neoconservatism is what I actually meant.
Now the cold winds are coming from Canada and the poor people are practically cut off from energy supply.
Prior to the introduction of neoliberalism in 1999 in Germany, the people of that country enjoyed one of the highest living standards in the world.
lyingeyes.blogspot.com /2006/02/connecticut-to-accept-venezuelan.html   (2838 words)

  
 The Killing Train: Fighting Neoliberalism (and Neoconservatism)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On a personal note: While they were battling neoliberalism in Latin America, however, I was experiencing neoconservatism in the United States.
Partly because radicals in the rest of the world are so focused on neoliberalism as the enemy.
What's important for radicals to understand though is that the enemy isn't just elites and it isn't just the business class or corporations or neoliberals.
www.killingtrain.com /archives/000160.html   (1263 words)

  
 MacAddict Forums / National Debt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
NeoConservatism is a more descriptive term for the Neoliberalism I assume you mean.
It is, in reality, a 'new conservative' movement advocating free trade (Reagan's trickle down theory that does not work in a democracy) that wants to shrink government inference such that the corporate community becomes so strong it will control governments at the global level and thus effect social change through economic development.
I think he might mean neoliberal in a Chomsky sort of way.
www.macaddict.com /forums/post/1036962   (2540 words)

  
 conservatism - Anarchopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Conservatism is a generic term for a wide range of ideologies, political philosophies, political movements, and social and cultural attitudes, which oppose change to some degree, and seek to limit change in some way.
Economic conservatism is a term used primarily in the United States, for what in Europe would be called market liberalism, neoliberalism, or simply liberalism.
It can be considered as the political movement associated with free-market or laissez-faire economics, which in Europe traditionally corresponds with the Liberal Parties.
eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/conservatism   (6985 words)

  
 Dr.Henry A. Giroux-Publications
Henry Giroux moved to Canada in 2004 and currently holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University.
Although his parents were original from Canada, he was born and lived in the United States until this recent move.
Having started his career in education as a high school teacher of history, he achieved a distinguished academic career for which he has recognized internationally.
www.henryagiroux.com /RoleOfCritPedagogy.htm   (4933 words)

  
 neoconservatism | Vancouver Indymedia (beta)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bev Oda is at it again.  Having demonstrated her commitment to neoliberalism by cozying up to corporate interests she now is showing her NeoCon stripes by attacking one of the few federally funded institutions working to promote women's equality.
The Conservative government is closing down most of its Status of Women Canada offices, saying they are not doing enough to serve women directly.
Vancouver's safe injection site is slowing down the spread of HIV and helping drug users quit their habits, a new study finds — but an expert suggested that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government won't want to hear those results.
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 Blue Tory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perhaps the best example of a Blue Tory administration in Canada was the "Common Sense Revolution" provincial conservative government of Ontario Premier Mike Harris.
However, it is often noted that despite the presence of well known social conservative members in the government such as former Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, the Harris Tories did not address perrenial social conservative concerns in the province.
Most Blue Tories are at least somewhat ideologically aligned close to the economic neo-liberal positions of the former Canadian Alliance, and as such supported the merger between the PCs and the Alliance to form the new Conservative Party of Canada (CPC).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue_Tory   (404 words)

  
 M of A - OT 06-118   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Despite the obituaries now being written, neoconservatism will not soon be over with and certainly won’t disappear in the way that American communism or segregation have.
In the short run at least, neoconservatism is wounded and is likely to present a different public face.
Shear, an American-Israeli woman who currently lives in Canada, says that on a recent five-week vacation to Israel, she rode the bus daily to the Old City to pray at sunrise.
www.moonofalabama.org /2006/12/ot_06118.html   (11433 words)

  
 Shevory excerpt
Neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and indeed Clintonism can all be seen as heirs to this legacy.
Voumvakis and Ericson examined media reporting on sexual assaults and found a similar disconnect between media depictions of crime and actual crime rates in Toronto, Canada.
Surrette conducted a comprehensive study of media representations of crime, and he concludes that crime coverage (1) presents violence to an extent disproportionate with crime data, (2) provides explanations that are nearly always "simplistic" and "individualistic," (3) encourages exaggerated fears of victimization, and (4) exacerbates racial divisions.
www.upress.umn.edu /excerpts/Shevory.html   (3392 words)

  
 Peak Oil News & Message Boards Forums >> Post 270564 >> Re: Economics - Science or Religion?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As for labels, this is an interesting description of neo-conservatism/neo-liberalism in Canada which is markedly different than in the USA for example.
Of course, neo-conservatives in Canada might be called neo-liberals in the USA, and neo-liberals in Canada might be called neo-socialists in the USA !
Taxes in Canada are far too high and there are too many regional subsidies and wealth transfers.
www.peakoil.com /post270564.html   (2054 words)

  
 ideols
Part of the diversity may reflect the disparate or different interests in a society (ie., there might be a farmers' party, a workers' party or an environmental party).
Neoliberals are also more likely to encourage state and local cooperation with federal objectives than to advocate federal intervention".
From the 1930s to the 1960s the American left was relatively united by a preference for socialist and Marxist economics (state ownership or common ownership and redistribution of wealth to create conditions of economic equality), by their opposition to American "imperialistic" foreign policy initiatives, and their efforts to rid America of its racism.
homepages.udayton.edu /~aherndaw/ideols.htm   (1387 words)

  
 Vive le Canada - Klein Flip-Flop over Oil Exports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The end of Canada as we know it (and the U.S., and Mexico) is coming sooner than you think.
Progressive Bloggers is a group of Canadian bloggers who firmly believe that this great country needs to move forward, not backwards.
Funny isn't it here in Canada if your not a Liberal you not considered a person who has the right to call "government" into question,and that goes for who ever the "governing parties is".
www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php/20050903231505421   (3708 words)

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