Now If We Could Get The People Taking The Polls To Vote

Better government beats bigger government

April 24, 2009 - 2:57pm — by Gerry Nicholls

A lot of people keep telling me that Canada is a “left-wing country”.Socialism, they say, is as Canadian as maple syrup, hockey and frost bite.Indeed conventional wisdom, suggests that a truly conservative party, that is a party that stands for lower taxes, less government and individual freedom, would never stand a chance of winning any votes.

Yet certain events in recent history seem to challenge this theory.

For instance, take former Liberal leader Stephane Dion. Remember him?He moved his party from the political centre to the Left and as an added measure he planned to impose a measure which delighted every green-spirited, big government-loving, left-wing Canadian: a carbon tax.According to the “Canadians are all left-wingers theory”, such a move should have ensured a Dion victory in a landslide.In fact, he got trounced.

Then in December the country faced the prospect of a Left wing Coalition taking control of Canada.Surely if Canada is all that left wing, this prospect should have had Canadians cheering in the streets.But that didn’t happen. On the contrary, polls indicated a vast majority of Canadians wanted nothing to do with the Liberal-NDP-Bloc junta.

And finally, current Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff recently discovered that Canadians are not all that gung-ho when it comes to higher taxes.After Ignatieff openly mused about raising taxes, polls showed 30 percent of Canadians would be less likely to vote for him.

So maybe Canada isn’t that left wing after all.

Maybe Canadians want better, not bigger, government at a cost they can afford.