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| Conservatives members attack the marginalized and Harper seeks to marginalize oppenents |
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Conservative members have a long history of attacking society’s marginalized groups. Pensioners: Paul Forseth called “Old age security is welfare for the aged.” The poor and students: Gary Breitkreuz called for minimum wage to be scrapped. The homeless: Peter Goldring said “I have strong concerns that we’re building shelters on a grander and grander scale.” The homosexual community: Stockwell Day said "Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counseling." Refugees: Ted White “At east 40% of all the Iranians living there [North Vancouver] are refugee claimants. Most of them are bogus.” “They see all these … scumbags who come in using our refugee laws and claiming refugee status just so they can be criminals here.” Stephen Harper, on the other hand, has a history of seeking to marginalize those who do not support his party or his views. Western Liberal ridings: "west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.” The Maritimes: Canadians. "There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be economic progress…. [This] kind of can't-do attitude is a problem in this country but it's obviously more serious in regions that have had have-not status for a long time." Everyone in Canada outside of Alberta: “Alberta and much of the rest of Canada have embarked on divergent and potentially hostile paths to defining their country. Alberta has opted for the best of Canada's heritage. ... Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status, led by a second-world strongman appropriately suited for the task. … Any country with Canada's insecure smugness and resentment can be dangerous. It can revel in calling its American neighbours names because they are too big and powerful to care.” |
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