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No. 26 ‐ March 21, 2011 Canadians for Peace & Socialism
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Special Election Bulletin From Focus On Socialism ‐ Number Three
The Reconvening of
Parliament and the Tasks of
the Left as Canada Heads
for another Federal
Election.
Yes to Peace and Full
Employment for the People
of Canada!
No to US‐NATO Wars and
IMF Austerity!
When Parliament opens on
March 21st 2011 the corporate
subservient government of
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
and Finance Minister Jim
Flaherty will attempt to
blackmail the opposition
parties into supporting
imperialist war and economic
austerity or go to the polls.
Jack Layton leader of the NDP,
Gilles Duceppe leader of the
Bloc Quebecois and Michael Ignatieff leader of the Liberals have a choice. They can either call the bluff of a
right wing autocratic Prime Minister and defeat his democratically intolerant government of imperialist war and
austerity for workers, farmers and the self‐employed, or abandon all pretence at having a progressive
independent foreign and domestic policy in the interests of the majority of Canadians.
Canadians in their majority reject a further continuation of the ruinous absolutist policies promoted by Prime
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Minister Harper on behalf of big oil profits, big war profits and big bank profits.
There is nothing that is good for the Canadian people in supporting another US‐NATO war, this time waged
against the people of Libya and another made‐at‐the‐IMF economic austerity budget imposed on Canadian
workers.
Endless war and IMF austerity is the policy of the dictatorial and centrally controlled Conservative government
acting in the interests of the small parasitical investor elite of wealth and privilege. Prime Minister Harper is
deceiving Canadian wage and salary earners when he claims to be acting on their behalf.
War and austerity is to the benefit of a small and powerful group of monopoly capitalists. These are the
interests that derive windfall profits from investments in the modern day US‐Canadian military industrial
complex and reap quick massive profits from speculation on the rise of oil and food prices. These are the
interests that plunder the treasuries of the G7 states to prop up failing banks and prosecute a high tech war for
the oil and resources belonging to the people of sovereign states.
War and austerity is the enemy of the Canadian working class. Canadian working class families will be the
victims of war induced inflation and profit speculation that will drive up prices on all basic necessities in
particular the price of food, gas and accommodation. By committing Canada to another US‐NATO war, Prime
Minister Harper has assured every Canadian worker of a wage cut to pay for it.
As US NATO cruise missiles and Canadian CF 18 jet fighters rain down death on the Libyan people
indiscriminately killing pro and anti Qaddafi civilians alike with the same precision and indifference as US drones
launched from control centres in the USA kill Afghans and Pakistani civilians, Canadian Parliamentarians can
look the other way and play the Prime Minister's Parliamentary con game of "he said she said", or speak over
the heads of the Conservative‐big business axis, directly to the Canadian people and appeal to them to reject
the Prime Minister's invitation to abandon peace and support another G7‐NATO imperialist war.
Prime Minister Harper and Finance Minister Flaherty are appealing to their right wing supporters to go into the
federal election campaign and convince the Canadian people to voluntarily abandon all struggles to build an
independent, economically advanced, and peaceful country through publicly ownership and planning,
government investment in the needs of the people in favour of accepting a different kind of Canada where its
foreign policy and domestic policies are determined elsewhere and rubber‐stamped in Parliament.
Prime Minister Harper and Finance Minister Flaherty offer Canadians a corporate totalitarianism where defense
policy is made at NATO headquarters in Brussels, economic, monetary and fiscal policies are made at the IMF
and energy policy is made at the Petroleum Club in Calgary on behalf of a small elite of foreign and domestic
investors and a parasitical cabal of wealth and privilege that help them do it.
The next federal election will be upon us sooner than later. The next federal election with the threat of a
Conservative government majority will be a turning point for the people of Canada. The stakes are high for the
working class and its allies.
Another corporate sanctioned Conservative government either minority or majority will accelerate Canada
along the path of deeper integration into the global system of imperialism and commit our country to a more
aggressive adversarial reactionary role internationally imposing on the Canadian armed forces the duty to
protect private profits and suppress the struggles of the poor and disadvantaged people's of the world
demanding a better life.
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Canada as an enforcer imperialist state is not a vision of Canada that is supported by a majority of Canadians.
How could it be? We have never been asked our opinion about the Conservative Government's state monopoly
capitalist decisions. Prime Minister Harper and Finance Minister Flaherty don't consult with the people of
Canada about their economic future. The Prime Minister first consults the elite of militarists, banks, and foreign
and domestic oil companies and their think tank shills about what to do. When the Prime Minister gets the
message he then imposes it on Parliament and the people. That is the Canada's authoritarian Prime Minister's
idea of democracy.
The Canadian people are not part of that elite decision making process in our country and it is time to reject
monopoly rule for real working people's democracy. That is what the working class and its allies are demanding
everywhere in the world and the time has come for Canadians to do likewise.
The left progressive forces of our country, the organized labour, patriotic and peace movements have never
been called upon to stand up and unite for a different kind of Canada, for a different kind of economy, for a
different kind of democracy as we are now called upon to do. There is no one else to do it.
If Canadians value our achievements, seek to regain what we have lost to right wing privateers, save what we
have and make further social advances on behalf of those who labour to live, that struggle must be taken into
the next federal election independently of the established parties. Organized labour and movements of the
people cannot afford to permit big business dominated political elites and their media hacks to set the people's
agenda for the next federal election.
The struggle for peace and progress can be won.
The organized labour and peace movements, the environments and community and social activists for
women's equality of rights, for racial equality, for the welfare of our children, the anti‐poverty action groups,
youth and students, the advocates for seniors and affordable housing for young families, the trade union led
struggle for improved universal CPP and OAS pensions and the strike movement demanding increased
purchasing power through rising wages ‐ these forces are the majority and united can take back our country
from state monopoly capitalist ruination.
The federal election is the opportunity to enunciate a new direction for Canada towards a foreign policy of
peace, planned economic development for the workers and farmers and self‐employed, guaranteeing a future
for the children and youth.
The working class can settle for nothing less!
Left Turn Canada!
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