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  January 13, 2006

Think Twice Canadians: Harper Reasserts Plan to Renege on Kyoto and Sabotage Charter of Rights with Insidious Neocon 'Property Rights' Clause
harperbushStephen Harper, the Canadian Conservative leader soaring in the polls due to the staggering ineptness of his three progressive opponents, reasserted Thursday that he would renege on Canada's commitment to the Kyoto Accord, which he says is 'unworkable'. He also announced he would renege on aboriginal settlements and cancel child care funding put in place by the current Liberal administration. Even more frightening, he announced a new and sinister plan to entrench 'property rights' in the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms. The defence of 'property rights' has been successfully used by US corporatists to circumvent and block environmental laws, animal protection laws, logging regulations and other progressive legislation and regulations. Harper's plan would put the right of property-owners to do whatever they want with their 'property' ahead of and out of reach of any legislation restricting such 'rights'.

A new group of progressive and moderate organizations called Think Twice Canada is sufficiently alarmed about Harper's policies that they have hastily convened a news conference today (Friday) to inform Canadians about the implications of the Harper platform, because they believe (and I agree) that neither the other parties nor the media is giving voters sufficient information on this matter. The media and the parties seem to have decided that the environment is not an issue in the campaign, and need not be covered in the news. The property rights issue appears too complex for the media to analyze -- beyond covering the statements of the party leaders, there has been no discussion of it in any of the media, no editorials, no constitutional analysis.

Think twice Canadians! We are this close to falling into the neocon hell that our American counterparts have been suffering under for five years, with policies ruinous to the environment, civil freedoms, the economy and the middle class. Like Harper is doing now, Bush in 2000 soft-pedaled his radical right-wing agenda under the guise of 'compassionate conservatism'. Like Harper is doing now, Bush exploited a scandal by his political opponents to seize power without being honest about his real political intentions. Like Harper, Bush was heavily supported by Big Oil interests and extreme right-wing groups totally out of touch with, and disinterested in, the desires of the country's citizens.

On January 23, please make sure your vote counts. Don't let this dangerous man take power in our country.

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