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FORSETH: Go ahead and tear down the Centre Ice Canadians, but I for one hope it remains standing, and becomes a force for positive change in Canadian politics!

Dominic Cardy, Chair
Centre Ice Canadians Advisory Board


Call me confused ... but after totally trashing the Centre Ice Canadians, Chris Selley goes on to say: 

 


"Very few people are officially against any of these things, really. And yet they don’t happen. And well-understood absurdities like corporate welfare, supply management and military procurement go unfixed — not to mention all the policies at every level of government that contributed to Canada’s housing crisis.



It’s not because nobody ever noticed. Politicians across the spectrum must know, at some level, how absurd it is to spend tens of billions subsidizing new widget plants — when existing business are gagging for employees, no less — in order to avoid Tennessee or Kentucky subsidizing Canadians’ widgets instead. They all know the access-to-information system is broken. Give the Canadian Forces two per cent of our GDP and it would almost certainly fail to spend it at all, let alone wisely: So eroded are our capabilities, that two-per-cent figure can only be seen is the result of a comprehensive rethink and ramping up of our military and foreign-affairs apparatus.



Why is all this the case? Why is the military so depleted? Why is access to information a daily scandal? Why do so many our institutions run so poorly? Why don’t politicians “own their mistakes” anymore, as the CIC (Centre Ice Canadians) document puts it? It’s a very long, sad story, but one thing that definitely would have helped was if MPs felt like something other than trained seals, calling out their own governments when they stray, as happens in other countries ..." 

 

There you have it!

 

In actual fact the author DOES give several reasons why WE DO need the Center Ice Canadians -- IF for no other reason than to NOT HAVE a bunch of trained seals!

Centre Ice Canadians isn't an anti-Trudeau or anti-Polievre organization -- it's an organization which includes Canadians (myself included) that are tired of cliche slogans designed to catch the attention of those whose information mainly comes from YouTube, Facebook, and other social media sites -- rather than those with credentials providing reasonable thought.

 

Those coming to, or looking at and considering, the Centre Ice Canadians are those feeling -- disconnected from their leaders and their institutions … and populists on the right and on the left proposing dangerous, self-serving and unworkable answers. … and who are seeing social media further amplifying public anxiety and

 

We are seeing … rage driving a politics that is increasingly angry and extreme …

 

Canada needs to implement sensible and pragmatic policies that build society up, instead of tearing it down.

 

So go ahead, Chris Seeley … tear down the Centre Ice Canadians, but I for one hope that it remains standing, and will become a force for positive change in Canadian politics!

 

That is something we desperately need!

In Kamloops, I’m Alan Forseth, and I look forward to your thoughts.

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