The unthinkable has happened. Bill C-169 is now the law of the land.
What is Bill C-169? Quite simply, the new Orwellian law makes it illegal for any Canadian citizen to be involved in any actively meaningful way during a federal general election or by-election.
Only party hacks of the three registered political parties are going to be allowed to participate in all future election campaigns.
George Orwell once said that “political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
The language used by the liberal politicians to explain the bill in parliament was just as Orwell stated; it was equally damnable lies that this very same government used in 1969, when they brought in capital punishment for the unborn, via surgical abortion.
Canadian democracy and freedom of speech takes on special significance during an election campaign, for it is only during that brief period that an ordinary citizen can – if he or she wishes – have an impact or effect on who gets elected.
Well from now onward you, I and most Canadians will be “de-Canadianized” for 60 days during every election: only card-carrying party hacks will be allowed to campaign.
Former cabinet minister Sidney Green (my colleague in the Schreyer government), while speaking on the CBC morning radio programme, called Bill C-169 “a Fascistic law.”
Actually, it’s even worse than that. Under Fascism nobody had a vote, so all were equally deprived of their freedom of speech.
Equally to be condemned are the self-seeking news media who managed to keep the effects of the bill hidden from the public for over a month.
These are the holier-than-thou guardians of free speech. It appears what they are really concerned about is their own freedom of speech, not ours. And as usual the Civil Liberties Union didn’t lift a finger to protest this infamous bill, because they knew it was primarily, not exclusively, aimed at religious groups and pro-life groups.
Finally, there is the “Media League for Human Rights.” These people give awards for the following reasons:
For alerting, informing and sensitizing the public with regard to the nature and value of human rights, their interdependence one upon the other, and the ever present danger of their erosion; and in particular, for energetically and persistently bringing forth issues where human rights of individuals or groups are being denied or are in jeopardy.
If such basic rights and freedoms are to be redeemed by Canadian citizens, must they take action on their own?
Where is The League now? Surely this bill, C-169, is as perfect an example of denial of human rights as they could wish for. Is The League, like the Civil Liberties folk, too timid to fight a real battle?
One of the most persistent remedies I keep hearing of is to form a pro-life party to overturn or to bypass this “Fascistic Law.”
Personally, I have always felt that Canadians need a new party like they need another variety of influenza. But unless someone comes up with a better idea quickly, that (humanly speaking) may be the only alternative.
Your comments, dear readers, would be greatly appreciated, as would your suggestions.
