Sunday, June 12, 2005
North Vancouver Conservative Candidate Cindy Silver and her PR man at the North Shore News
Doug Collins, may he burn in hell, once wrote for the North Shore News. Ted White was once the MP for North Vancouver. The two were friendly. During the 1990s whenever a federal election rolled around, people from outside the North Shore would smirk and say “Ted White will win again; North Vancouver is Doug Collins country”.
Collins, you may recall, liked to smooth over the fact that Ted White once ran for Western Canadian Concept Party and at the time when White was with them the party referred to people from the third world as "degenerates". He would say that White was never seriously involved with the party and he would echo White's line that White was always frank about what relationship he had with them. In actual fact, White never mentioned having had any connection with party on any of his campaign literature and when he went into Federal politics he felt the need to change his name for Edward White to Ted White.
Of course, Collins had troubles of his own. He was dragged before a human rights commission for penning a review of Schindler’s List entitled “Hollywood Propaganda”. Having first admitted that he had not seen the film, Collins referred to Schindler’s List as "Swindler's List" and said of the film that it was an example of "hate literature in the form of [a] film…." According to Collins, the holocaust, and he put the word in quotation marks, is “not only the longest lasting but also the most effective propaganda exercise ever.” To buttress this claim and to shield himself against calls of bigotry, Collins said this: “Only one critic has described Spielberg's effort as three hours of propaganda. He was with the Jewish-owned New York Times. Good for him. And them. The exception that proves the rule.” White testified on Collins behalf and in 2001, a few months after Collins had died, White claimed that Manning’s reluctance to accept that Collins nomination as the Reform candidate for West Vancouver, when the party was but a few years old, was proof that steps needed to be taken to ensure that riding associations would be free to nominate who they pleased. http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/politics_reform/white.html
People from outside the North Shore can snear at us no longer. Collins is dead, White was defeated and the North Shore News is not quite the bastion of backwardness that it once was.
The worst the North Shore News can dish out these days is Trevor Lautens and Lautens is a far cry from Doug Collins. Lautens current cause de jour is transforming Cindy Silver from Christian fundamentalist dedicated to saving marriage from Adam and Steve to socially moderate pluralist, dare I say, liberal. He seems to want to be to Cindy Silver what Doug Collins was for Ted White. His efforts have not gone unappreciated; Silver at one time linked to the following article on her website. http://www.nsnews.com/issues05/w013005/021205/opinion/021205op2.html In his most recent column, Lautens has enlisted the help of someone he has long "admired", Stockwell Day man Ezra Levant. http://www.nsnews.com/issues05/w060605/062305/opinion/062305op2.html
If Levant’s name sounds familiar this is why: In response to the Young Liberals take on gay marriage, “it’s the charter stupid” Ezra Levant, knowing how well Randy White’s interview went over last year, fired back “its the stupid charter”. Martin has since offered Levant a cabinet post.
Silver is a lawyer, and according to Lautens and Silver, this means that she sometimes takes on unpleasant jobs; however such is the nature of beast; some lawyers must take unpleasant work to make the system work; our legal system is an adverseral one and we are all better for it. So, she is a defense lawyer you ask. No. Pick your poison; Cindy Silver is either a crusader in every sense of the word, or a hired gun in the employ of those wishing to break down the wall between state and religion. When a child in Surrey was in danger of hearing that it is ok to have two moms “if they’re nice to you and if you like them”, Cindy did her best to see that the book was banned from the classroom. The same went for One Dad Two Dads Brown Dads Blue Dads. Yes the book is as innocuous as its title suggests. When the UN advocated the use of “artificial methods of contraception” and “gender equality and homosexual rights”, Cindy was there to speak out against them. http://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/commentaries/070197.html When Adam and Steve wanted to get married, thereby imperiling marriage in some weird and unexplained way, Silver was there to “defend” it.
So, you say. Sliver is but one candidate and if she was elected her affect would be negated by the others in her party that do not share her views. Harper has moved the party to the middle. Alas, you are forgetting the Republican elephant in the Conservative living room and the fact that only 8 out of 98 Conservative MPs have ever disappointed Life Site and that most transgressions occurred when 6 were members of the PC party. http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/fedvotes/mpvotingbyprovince.htm In a paper, entitled Rediscovering the Right Agenda, in which he dismissed Red Tories as not being true conservatives, Harper advocated that Conservatives embrace the moral majority.
For those who believe that he abandoned such a platform back in March, check out the way he ended his speech to convention faithful. “Thank you. God Bless Canada.” Indeed, Harper is so enthralled with the Republican example that he seems to have forgotten who it is the PM answers to. This spring Harper informed Paul Martin that he had been “summoned” to Crawford for a meeting.
Pace Lautens, this is what Jeffery Simpson of the Globe and Mail got wrong. He made Silver look like the exception rather than the rule. Silver is not the type of candidate that keeps Harper up at night; she is the type of candidate he wants. Harper believes, wrongly in my mind, that by emphasizing social issues he can split the electorate in two and to paraphrase Pat Buchanan the Conservative half will be the bigger of the two. Say what you will about Silver, one thing is sure. She is just the type of candidate Rove would employ to get the Conservative Party’s social Conservative base out to the polls. Her one week nomination run proves it.
As for Lautens, just in case someone should get the impression that he is just playing devil's advocate, he has spoken on one of Silver's favorite subjects, viz., the perils of gay marriage. "My view: men marrying men? Women marrying women? "Bisexuals" working both sides of the street? Stupid or worse." http://stgeorgeslowville.org/NorthShoreNews.htm Funny, "stupid or worse" is probably the exact words an ethics professor would use to describe Lautens views on the subject.
Doug Collins, may he burn in hell, once wrote for the North Shore News. Ted White was once the MP for North Vancouver. The two were friendly. During the 1990s whenever a federal election rolled around, people from outside the North Shore would smirk and say “Ted White will win again; North Vancouver is Doug Collins country”.
Collins, you may recall, liked to smooth over the fact that Ted White once ran for Western Canadian Concept Party and at the time when White was with them the party referred to people from the third world as "degenerates". He would say that White was never seriously involved with the party and he would echo White's line that White was always frank about what relationship he had with them. In actual fact, White never mentioned having had any connection with party on any of his campaign literature and when he went into Federal politics he felt the need to change his name for Edward White to Ted White.
Of course, Collins had troubles of his own. He was dragged before a human rights commission for penning a review of Schindler’s List entitled “Hollywood Propaganda”. Having first admitted that he had not seen the film, Collins referred to Schindler’s List as "Swindler's List" and said of the film that it was an example of "hate literature in the form of [a] film…." According to Collins, the holocaust, and he put the word in quotation marks, is “not only the longest lasting but also the most effective propaganda exercise ever.” To buttress this claim and to shield himself against calls of bigotry, Collins said this: “Only one critic has described Spielberg's effort as three hours of propaganda. He was with the Jewish-owned New York Times. Good for him. And them. The exception that proves the rule.” White testified on Collins behalf and in 2001, a few months after Collins had died, White claimed that Manning’s reluctance to accept that Collins nomination as the Reform candidate for West Vancouver, when the party was but a few years old, was proof that steps needed to be taken to ensure that riding associations would be free to nominate who they pleased. http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/politics_reform/white.html
People from outside the North Shore can snear at us no longer. Collins is dead, White was defeated and the North Shore News is not quite the bastion of backwardness that it once was.
The worst the North Shore News can dish out these days is Trevor Lautens and Lautens is a far cry from Doug Collins. Lautens current cause de jour is transforming Cindy Silver from Christian fundamentalist dedicated to saving marriage from Adam and Steve to socially moderate pluralist, dare I say, liberal. He seems to want to be to Cindy Silver what Doug Collins was for Ted White. His efforts have not gone unappreciated; Silver at one time linked to the following article on her website. http://www.nsnews.com/issues05/w013005/021205/opinion/021205op2.html In his most recent column, Lautens has enlisted the help of someone he has long "admired", Stockwell Day man Ezra Levant. http://www.nsnews.com/issues05/w060605/062305/opinion/062305op2.html
If Levant’s name sounds familiar this is why: In response to the Young Liberals take on gay marriage, “it’s the charter stupid” Ezra Levant, knowing how well Randy White’s interview went over last year, fired back “its the stupid charter”. Martin has since offered Levant a cabinet post.
Silver is a lawyer, and according to Lautens and Silver, this means that she sometimes takes on unpleasant jobs; however such is the nature of beast; some lawyers must take unpleasant work to make the system work; our legal system is an adverseral one and we are all better for it. So, she is a defense lawyer you ask. No. Pick your poison; Cindy Silver is either a crusader in every sense of the word, or a hired gun in the employ of those wishing to break down the wall between state and religion. When a child in Surrey was in danger of hearing that it is ok to have two moms “if they’re nice to you and if you like them”, Cindy did her best to see that the book was banned from the classroom. The same went for One Dad Two Dads Brown Dads Blue Dads. Yes the book is as innocuous as its title suggests. When the UN advocated the use of “artificial methods of contraception” and “gender equality and homosexual rights”, Cindy was there to speak out against them. http://www.fotf.ca/familyfacts/commentaries/070197.html When Adam and Steve wanted to get married, thereby imperiling marriage in some weird and unexplained way, Silver was there to “defend” it.
So, you say. Sliver is but one candidate and if she was elected her affect would be negated by the others in her party that do not share her views. Harper has moved the party to the middle. Alas, you are forgetting the Republican elephant in the Conservative living room and the fact that only 8 out of 98 Conservative MPs have ever disappointed Life Site and that most transgressions occurred when 6 were members of the PC party. http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/fedvotes/mpvotingbyprovince.htm In a paper, entitled Rediscovering the Right Agenda, in which he dismissed Red Tories as not being true conservatives, Harper advocated that Conservatives embrace the moral majority.
rebalancing means there will be changes to the composition of
theconservative coalition. We may not have all the same people we have had inthe
past. The new liberal corporatist agenda will appeal to some in thebusiness
community. We may lose some old "conservatives," Red Tories likethe David
Orchards or the Joe Clarks.
This is not all bad. A more coherent coalition can take strong positionsit
wouldn't otherwise be able to take - as the Alliance alone was able to doduring
the Iraq war. More importantly, a new approach can draw in newpeople. Many
traditional Liberal voters, especially those from key ethnicand immigrant
communities, will be attracted to a party with strongtraditional views of values
and family. This is similar to the phenomenon ofthe "Reagan Democrats" in the
United States, who were so important in thedevelopment of that conservative
coalition. http://www.ccicinc.org/politicalaffairs/060103.html
For those who believe that he abandoned such a platform back in March, check out the way he ended his speech to convention faithful. “Thank you. God Bless Canada.” Indeed, Harper is so enthralled with the Republican example that he seems to have forgotten who it is the PM answers to. This spring Harper informed Paul Martin that he had been “summoned” to Crawford for a meeting.
Pace Lautens, this is what Jeffery Simpson of the Globe and Mail got wrong. He made Silver look like the exception rather than the rule. Silver is not the type of candidate that keeps Harper up at night; she is the type of candidate he wants. Harper believes, wrongly in my mind, that by emphasizing social issues he can split the electorate in two and to paraphrase Pat Buchanan the Conservative half will be the bigger of the two. Say what you will about Silver, one thing is sure. She is just the type of candidate Rove would employ to get the Conservative Party’s social Conservative base out to the polls. Her one week nomination run proves it.
As for Lautens, just in case someone should get the impression that he is just playing devil's advocate, he has spoken on one of Silver's favorite subjects, viz., the perils of gay marriage. "My view: men marrying men? Women marrying women? "Bisexuals" working both sides of the street? Stupid or worse." http://stgeorgeslowville.org/NorthShoreNews.htm Funny, "stupid or worse" is probably the exact words an ethics professor would use to describe Lautens views on the subject.
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