[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
As Andrew Coyne so aptly put it, the Holy Liberal Party is neither Holy, nor Liberal, nor even a Party. I mean, what do you call a political party that thinks its own misfortunes are inextricably tied to the fortunes of the country at large, that Canada is doomed because the Liberals are doomed. The Toronto Sun's Linda Williamson gets it right:
Watching Paul Martin address the nation last night, I couldn't help thinking of all the times he and his predecessor didn't speak to Canadians directly. Not after 9/11, even though 24 of our countrymen were murdered by terrorists. Not when we joined the war in Afghanistan. Not when we declined to back the U.S. in Iraq; not when we naively rejected the U.S. missile defence program. Not when the government refused to compensate thousands of victims of the tainted blood scandal, many of whom are dying as they continue to await justice today (despite a hasty Liberal flip-flop on the issue Wednesday night, which will change little). Not even when the government decided to redefine the institution of marriage. No, none of those things were deemed important enough for the Liberal prime minister to address the nation. But hey, through all of those events, the Liberals were doing fine in the polls. Now, of course, thanks to AdScam and evidence at the resulting Gomery inquiry of corruption too repugnant to ignore, the Liberals have fallen behind the Conservatives for the first time since the late 1980s. So naturally, it's a national crisis!
The arrogance of this Party is just boundless. And what a spectacle it is for a Prime Minister on hands and knees after 12 years of government thievery pleading for more time. After 12 years of political corruption, cronyism and organized criminal activity, grossly enriching their friends and appointing court judges in return for Party favours. [Allegedly, of course, but at what point are we no longer obliged to use that word?]
What possible moral rationale exists to prop this government up today? What, because some of the testimony might be refuted, that some of the Liberals might still not go to jail over this, that it might not be quite so bad as it is currently being portrayed. Is that the new standard for governments today: the party in power has to be found guilty of deliberately conspiring against the people and the public interest in a court of law (whose judges were appointed by Liberals)?
Ladies and gentlemen, now you know why I'm a monarchist. Her Majesty's constitutional position as Sovereign of Canada and Her residual powers of State, the most important of these being the power to dismiss governments and dissolve Parliament, is perhaps the only reason why we are not today a "Banana Republic". You see, monarchy's not so quaint after all.
UPDATE: Every monarchist will love Andrew Coyne's comparison of Prime Minister Martin's extraordinary action yesterday to France's King Louis XVI's 1791 flight to Varennes here in today's National Post article, "Serving the party, not the nation".
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