To date (subject to the aforesaid court review) Mr. Harper has been able to lead what is called The Conservative Party of Canada and to act as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons.
Now, working with The Bloc Québécois, he is threatening an election.
Some say Mr. Harper has a hidden agenda.
http://www.bloc-harper.com/blocharper/blocteam.htmI disagree.
He has a very clear agenda.
For some reason however, most people, including mainline media, do not want to believe Mr. Harper means what he says.
Here are the facts.
He has two masters. The National Citizen’s Coalition of some 40,000 members
and he has what is often referred to as The Calgary School including his confident,
Tom Flanagan and Ted Morton.
Speaking to a meeting of the National Citizen’s Coalition in Hamilton on May 24th, 1994, Mr. Harper said “Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion”.
That was the year before the 1995 Separatist Referendum in Quebec and he was an M.P. at the time.
Later in the speech he said “whether Canada ends up with one national government or two governments or ten governments, the Canadian people will require less government no matter what the constitutional status or arrangements of any future country may be”.
I write to you as you have experienced his tactics during his coup of the Progressive Conservative Party.
In his mind that was a necessary step to achieve his ultimate objective. He will stop at nothing.
In 1997, he and his confident Tom Flanagan, in their Next City magazine, suggested coalitions were the only route to Conservatives seizing national power. They suggested an alliance with The Bloc Québécois “would not be out of place. The Bloc are nationalist for much the same reason that Albertans are populist - they care about their local identity……..and they see the Federal Government as a threat to their way of life,” they stated.
In 2001, Harper was the Leader of a group who proposed “a firewall around Alberta”. I can e-mail you a copy of this “Alberta Agenda” or you can pull it up on The National Citizens Coalition web page.
In October 2004, Harper made his “Belgian waffle” speech in Québec City where he suggested Canada should become a North American version of Belgium which has multiple factions each with their own autonomy. In short he felt this “national autonomy” status should be considered sympathetically because “Québécois never wanted to be an overwhelmed province in a centralized Canada”.