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A possible path to save Canada's environment and bury NAFTA...
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This is especially relevant to Atlantic Canadians, as we live in a region
which, due to it's economic disparity, is quite susceptible to exploitation
via free trade. We also live in an area where there is an opportunity to
increase the support for David Orchard and his platform (low support in
first ballot).
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Are you a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada?
Do you have friends or family who might be members of the Progressive
Conservative Party of Canada?
If so, you have the opportunity to influence who becomes leader of the
Progressive Conservative Party.
David Orchard's platform is listed below and could turn Canada in the right
direction, by transforming the PC Party from it's Mulroney-esque
neo-conservativism to a hope for the future.
If he wins the PC leadership (decided by all PC members across Canada), he
will run for Prime Minister in the next federal election.
If you support this issue and want to help, read this email and try to sway
some conservative voters - but don't delay. the vote takes place on
Saturday, November 14. Call Toll free - 1 877 WE STAND to find out other
ways to help.
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http://www.davidorchard.com
Toll free - 1 877 WE STAND
Political Platform: Orchard is a conservative in the sense that he wants to
conserve the nation, the economy, the environment, and the border between
Canada and the U.S. He stands with the founders of the Progressive
Conservative Party of Canada--John A Macdonald, Thomas Darcy McGee, Robert
Borden and others--who believed in a strong and independent Canada with a
domestically-controlled economy. His campaign is built on four themes: 1)
getting Canada out of the misnamed free trade agreements; 2) ending the
deterioration of Canada's environment and moving forward to an era of
conserving our resources and using them in a sustainable way; 3) stopping
repeated attempts to change the Constitution and opposing devolution of more
powers from the central government to the provinces; and 4) calling for an
end to current system of corporation financing of political parties and
moving towards a proportional representation electoral system to put greater
democracy in the hands of citizens.
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"Mr. Orchard, are you a Conservative?"
People ask, Mr. Orchard, are you a Conservative? If the word "conserve"
means anything at all, I am a Conservative. I want to conserve our nation, I
want to conserve our economy, I want to conserve our environment and I want
to conserve the border between ourselves and our powerful neighbour to the
south. ...
In my view, I am not the outsider, but it was Mr. [Brian] Mulroney and Mr.
[John] Crosbie who hijacked the Conservative party and took it away from its
120-year history by signing a sweeping continental integration agreement and
trying repeatedly to weaken the Canadian constitution. The founders of this
Party stood for a strong and independent Canada with a
domestically-controlled economy and that is where I will take this party: to
a Canada with employment, pride and dignity for all, not status as a
satellite of the United States.
(Globe and Mail, Friday, August 14, 1998)
To find out more on the election results and the second ballot on Nov 14/98
follow this link-
PC Party website.
The Conservative Party has publicly called for new ideas and new faces. It
has backed up this call by changing its constitution so that now, for the
first time, the leader will be selected not on the basis of a delegate
convention as it did in the past but on a universal ballot so that every
person who takes a ten dollar membership in the party will have the right to
vote for the leader on October 24th!
To be eligible to vote for the next Leader of the PC Party of Canada, your
membership dues must be postmarked no later than September 29, 1998.
"Mulroney was an aberration." --David Orchard
Frank de Jong, Leader of the Green Party of Ontario. "It is my pleasure to
endorse the candidature of David Orchard for the leadership of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada."
"David Orchard has received a personal endorsement from Stuart Parker,
Leader of the BC Green Party and Vice-President of the BC Electoral Change
Coalition."
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In the first ballot, on Oct. 24,
Joe Clark received 48%
David Orchard received 16%
36% voted for one of the other 3 candidates (who have since left the race).
If Orchard captures 25% from this source, and if he gains 10% from members
who supported joe clark on the first ballot, Orchard will get 51% of the vote.
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Aaron Koleszar <aaronk@isn.net>
"LORD TAKE MY SOUL. BOYCOTT $HELL
THE STUGGLE CONTINUES"
- KEN SARO-WIWA (before his execution on November 10, 1995)
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M.A.I. - TELL US WHY?
Prince Edward Island PROPAGANDA JOURNAL
look at http://www3.pei.sympatico.ca/brad/
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1998 is BUY NOTHING DAY! (GIVE IT A REST)
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