Another Way of Looking at Political Parties in Canada

With Pierre Poilievre as the Tory leadership front runner I anticipate the Conservative and People’s parties fighting for the right wing fringe vote and collectively becoming the Party of the Deplorables.

Wishful thinking sees the New Democratic Party returning to it’s ideological roots as a party of principles fighting for progressive change reclaiming it’s role as the Party of the Idealists.

Leaving the Liberals as a party focused on getting elected by promoting policies that appear just progressive enough to win votes without upsetting the powers to be that actually control the country as the Party of the Opportunists.

 

Has Wikileaks Gone Off Track

If I recall correctly, it seems to me, that the original idea of Wikileaks was to provide an outlet for whistle-blowers who wanted to draw attention to government wrongdoing by releasing the documents that prove it.

Now it seems that the idea is that no information, whether government or corporate, should be confidential and that they will publish anything and everything leaked to them regardless of the motives or consequences.

And many seem to believe that they deserve the unquestioning support of all progressives. I'm not so sure about that.