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| Stephen Harper
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question. And I think the real problem that we're facing already is that the government doesn't accept that it got a minority. As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people. Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it. Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack o-n our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. ... I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions. I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion. I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedly, and I mean it and I believe it. If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders. This party will not take its position based o-n public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based o-n focus groups. We will not take a stand based o-n phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion. Toryism has the historical context of hierarchy and elitism and is a different kind of political philosophy. It's not my favourite term, but we're probably stuck with it. Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy. |
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