Fiscal Imbalance
What will Harper do?
A clear promise to remove non-renewable natural resource revenue from the equalization calculation and a split among provinces while ensuring that no province will be negatively impacted. Good Luck Mr. Harper.
A threat by Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador to fight any change to that commitment.
A threat by Quebec not to live up to that promise.
Ontario complaining in general about the Province's lot.
Alberta does not want to be included in a 10 Province "standard".
British Columbia - Ontario - Saskatchewan - Alberta - and Newfoundland and Labrador are thumbs-up for the change.
Quebec - Manitoba - Prince Edward Island - Nova Scotia - and Manitoba are thumbs-down on the change.
Further Quebec wants renewable resource revenue removed.
Oh what a mess - scrambling feds and scrambling provinces.
Where do the MP's and Parties stand on the issue?
I will send an email and see if they respond...
Stay tuned!! I will post the responses.
Weigh in on the issue - send an email. I will post a sample of the responses on the Blog.
A clear promise to remove non-renewable natural resource revenue from the equalization calculation and a split among provinces while ensuring that no province will be negatively impacted. Good Luck Mr. Harper.
A threat by Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador to fight any change to that commitment.
A threat by Quebec not to live up to that promise.
Ontario complaining in general about the Province's lot.
Alberta does not want to be included in a 10 Province "standard".
British Columbia - Ontario - Saskatchewan - Alberta - and Newfoundland and Labrador are thumbs-up for the change.
Quebec - Manitoba - Prince Edward Island - Nova Scotia - and Manitoba are thumbs-down on the change.
Further Quebec wants renewable resource revenue removed.
Oh what a mess - scrambling feds and scrambling provinces.
Where do the MP's and Parties stand on the issue?
I will send an email and see if they respond...
Stay tuned!! I will post the responses.
Weigh in on the issue - send an email. I will post a sample of the responses on the Blog.
1 comment:
Dear Sue,
Here's a letter I wrote to the editors of the Vancouver Sun and Ottawa Citizen today, in response to Peter O'Neil's Jan. 2 story 'Social conservatives press Conservatives for royal commission on marriage' :
Editor, The Sun
Political scientist Faron Ellis (‘Social Conservatives press Conservatives for commission on marriage’, Jan. 2) was wrong when he said pro-family voters “have no electoral option.” And Joseph Ben-Ami was mistaken when he said his alternative to voting for the Harper Conservatives was “staying home.”
Almost 20% of Canadian social conservatives can turn to the pro-life, pro-family CHP—just as Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson did in the USA in the 1990s. Dr. Dobson voted for a similar small party—the pro-life, pro-family Constitution Party—when the Republicans, like Stephen Harper’s ‘Conservatives’, waffled on life and family issues.
The Harper Conservatives, as Faron Ellis says, “had no intention of winning” the marriage vote.
A royal commission on the family was proposed by the Christian Heritage Party last September—four months ago! A similar commission in France rejected same-sex “marriage”, and also rejected adoption by same-sex couples.
“The purpose of adoption,” said the French commission, “is not to give a child to a family, but to give a family to a child.”
A royal commission on all aspects of the state of marriage and the family in Canada is still a good idea.
Ron Gray
National Leader
Christian Heritage Party of Canada
Langley, BC
(604) 534-3319
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And here's my answer to an e-mail received this morning from a student, asking about the CHP:
Dear Xxxxx Yyy,
Here are our answers to your school research project:
1) Is your ideology Left, Center, or Right?
There are two legitimate answers to this question:
1 - A few years ago, a BC businessman commissioned a professional polling company to do a survey for the CHP. The first part of the survey asked respondents how they felt about our policies, without identifying the party: 71% were supportive.
In the same survey, we asked four two-part questions:
• Have you ever heard of the Liberal Party? What do you think they stand for?
• Have you ever heard of the Reform Party? What do you think they stand for?
• Have you ever heard of the NDP? What do you think they stand for?
• Have you ever heard of the Christian Heritage Party? What do you think they stand for?
Only 24% had even heard of the CHP!
We took all the responses to the second half of the four questions, and grouped them as "positive", "negative", or "impossible to classify" for each party. Only one party—the CHP— got more than half "positive" responses (55%; the Reform Party came second at 44%).
I would say this survey proves that the CHP is very definitely in the centre of Canadian public opinion.
2 - But actually, the "left-right" paradigm really isn't very useful any longer. All the parties in the House of Commons today share an essentially Marxist world-view (please note: I'm not calling them "communist"! It's just that their view of economics, anthropology, political science and history is closer to Karl Marx than to any other political scientist: their concept of man is that we are essentially an economic animal, and their view of history is that events are determined by historical imperatives and Hegelian dialectics, etc.).
I prefer a model that portrays the political spectrum as a circle: at the top is Christian free enterprise; half-way down the left side is Socialism; half-way down the right side is corporate bureaucracy; at the bottom are the twin faces of Totalitarianism: Communism and Fascism. The further up the circle we can push society, the greater will be our individual freedom and prosperity.
2) Is your party Legitimate- broad based, Single issue - protest, or other (explain)
The Christian Heritage Party is certainly legitimate and broad-based! It's a 20-year-old registered federal political party, with a 56-page policy book covering virtually all aspects of federal government jurisdiction.
Our greatest challenge is that the media generally refuse to publish our information (which is why 76% of Canadians have never even heard of the CHP—see survey above), so not enough Canadians have been given the opportunity to consider this Party. A democracy requires a well-informed electorate, which means the voters should have enough accurate information about all their options to make a reasoned choice.
When you consider that the last census showed that 79% of Canadians self-identify as "Christian", a political party based upon Christian principles is certainly the real mainstream option!
Thanks for writing,
Ron Gray,
National Leader
Christian Heritage Party of Canada
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