The long-gun registry is endorsed by Hitler, Liberals should help Quebec separate to get rid of Harper, and Canadians are either Conservative or child pornographers. With a few recent cases of individual politicians lowering civil discourse in Canada, one could say they’re just isolated incidences, but in looking at their
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The Scott Ross: Change Doesn’t Exist Only Once
It began on rhetoric but ended on substance; this video is like Obama’s campaign, because Americans can choose to continue it, to not just look back at what they have done but to look forward at what they will do. This year Americans can continue to make history, not end
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Time Will Merge What Liberals & NDPers Can’t
Up upon an isolated mountain top, in a dark and long forgotten manor, underneath thunderous clouds, a large titanic body of gears and motors emblazoned in red stands motionless. The large lifeless liberal leviathan, composed of parts gathered from across the land and across time is all but complete except
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Outshining Trudeau
Just as Liberals look at Justin Trudeau and ask if he is like his father, many are asking if he will run for leader, the answer to one is the answer to the other. Though Justin Trudeau has stated he will not be running for Liberal Leader, citing his duty
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Does Stephen Harper Support Coalitions?
If coalitions are undemocratic and a threat to Canada, why hasn’t this strong stable Conservative majority government done anything to make sure they don’t ravage our nation? Simple, Stephen Harper supports coalitions. Just over three years ago Stephen Harper and members of his party said coalitions were a threat to
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Liberal Invisibility Is Liberal Non-Existence
Liberals like to pretend, and this is reinforced by public opinion, that the Liberal Party didn’t stand for anything in the last election and that’s why they lost. Liberal members and the public both say this, both acknowledge this, both perpetuate this, that the party led by Michael Ignatieff offered
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: A Chump Can Occupy Wall Street
“It’s not so good to refer to what you’re going to do as a sit-in. That right there castrates you. Right there it brings you down. What goes with it? Think of the image of someone sitting. An old woman can sit. An old man can sit. A chump can
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Defamiliarization of a Saturday Morning
This morning, with a brightening glow from my right I looked up from my newspaper to see a fog of falling snow across the yard, neighbouring street, and rooftops below. The unplanned and surprising sight had taken me back, contrasted all the more by the warm mug in my hand
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Liberal Identity
The Liberal Party lost the last election not because they didn’t know what they stood for, but because they stopped looking. After the last election many party officials, pundits and members of the public claimed the Liberals lost because they didn’t stand for anything, that Liberals didn’t even know who
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Slack-tivists All
People who click “like” on Facebook to show support for a cause are slacktivists, you on the other hand with your “Support Our Troops” bumper sticker, breast cancer ribbon fleece and poppy laden dashboard are not. Slacktivism is a pejorative term that refers to easy and simple gestures, relatively symbolic
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: State of the Canadian Union
When Americans want to know the direction their country is taking they watch their President’s State of the Union address. When Canadians want to know the direction their country is taking they should look at how many of them watched that same address. Last night when Barack Obama spoke to
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Liberal History
Laurier, McKenzie King, Pearson, Trudeau, Chretien all mean nothing to the Liberal Party, to Canada if we as members and as Canadians do nothing. Though each man was great in his own time, their greatness today rests on our shoulders. For if the Liberal Party was to disintegrate, was to
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Canadian Pride
Canada has the best government, the best history, and the best culture, but what makes me proudest to be Canadian, is not the democracy, not the tolerance and diversity, not the public health care, nothing, absolutely nothing makes me prouder to be Canadian than the Canadians who believe they can
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Conservatives Don’t Hate Democracy, They Just Don’t Need It
In Canada our representatives are elected, our churches, charities, and businesses are not. Conservatives by their ideology believe that less power should be given to our democratically elected government and more power given to groups that do not answer to voters, whether they be private hospitals, unaccountable church organizations, or
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: A Liberal Spark
A national convention this weekend showed that out the ashes of the Liberal Party there was a spark. That in Ottawa, where once the largest Liberal flame burned, where once it warmed all of a cold Canada, this weekend the city now home to the party’s cinders flared the tiniest
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Liberal President Priorities
On Saturday a respectable 1744 Liberal members voted on the most important change to the Liberal Party in years, perhaps ever, opening up the party to non-members and completely revolutionizing how Canadian political parties operate. Today Sunday more than 2500 will have cast a ballot for party president, an office
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Liberal Members Vote To Allow Supporters To Lose Too
Without buying a party membership you can become a Liberal supporter and not vote too. Liberals this weekend passed numerous amendments, one of them allows for non-members to vote for Leader, and though this issue was passed by a majority, both sides of the debate lost, because so few delegates
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Liberal Change For Innovation
May 2 2011- The Liberal Party had its worst defeat in history. June 18 2011- The Liberal Party holds an extraordinary convention over the phone and online, the first teleconference of its kind in North America. January 11 2012- Despite suffering worst electoral defeat, Interim Leader Bob Rae announces the
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Our Mandate
“Well you know the Conservatives say, and we know the mantra those of us who have to sit through this every day in the House of commons, that Canadians gave them a mandate to do whatever it is that they want to do; a mandate to carry out whatever abuses
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: With St-Denis, NDP Can’t Move On, Only Down
NDP MP Lise St-Denis turned Liberal, and just as her former party capitalized on Jack Layton, so is her new party. The recently elected Quebec MP Lise St-Denis left the NDP and in a carefully crafted statement provided the most potent thrust the Liberal Party can offer to Quebec and
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