Coalition Building: Bye Bye Conservatives

Canada needs to say goodbye to Stephen Harper and his corporate thugs
and American pimps. Our nation, like every other one on Earth, this
planet I've grown rather fond of, is in serious economic and environmental
trouble that has only just begun. We need a government that can work together
and listen to us, to prioritize what needs to be done for all Canadians.
I've read a variety of opinions on this and I believe that a Coalition
between the NDP, Liberals & the Bloc is the way to go for the survival of
Canada. I think it is time for a change in the way politics is done in
Canada, even for a time. What I know about the candidates in my party of
choice, is that they work their butts off, in Ottawa and at home, they
make themselves available and do the work of constituents. And what I
know in the last election, Stephen Harper's Conservatives went into hiding
and wouldn't even talk to voters. Remember Harpocracy.ca with it's
Muzzler Counter, tallying the reports of Conservative candidates who
dodged voters, who failed to show up for All Candidates meetings, who
just basically failed to even demonstrate basic respect for the citizens
they wanted to vote for them. Or how about sCandalpedia.

In the immortal words of Stephen Harper himself:

On Child Care and Early Learning Development
“We do not think this government or any government should be in charge of
raising our children. We see what happens over there when government is
in charge of raising children.” (Stephen Harper, Hansard, October 6, 2004)

On Child Poverty
“These proposals included cries for billions of new money for social assistance
in the name of “child poverty” and for more business subsidies in the name of “cultural identity”. In both cases I was sought out as a rare public figure to oppose such projects.” (Stephen Harper, The Bulldog, National Citizens Coalition, February 1997)

"You’ve got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society."
- The Report newsmagazine, January 22, 2001

Let these people know that as a Citizen of Canada, you support the
formation of a Coalition between the parties and that the Conservative
government will cease to govern and exist in Canada.

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean Governor General of Canada

E-mail: info@gg.ca

Office of the Secretary to the Governor General's Office
1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1A 0A1
Telephone:(613) 993-8200 Fax:(613) 993-1967

Find Your Member of Parliament

Members of The House Of Commons

Find your Member of Parliament using your Postal Code

Stephane Dion: Dion.S@parl.gc.ca
Telephone: (613) 996-5789; Fax: (613) 996-6562

Jack Layton: Layton.J@parl.gc.ca
Telephone: (613) 995-7224; Fax: (613) 995-4565

Gilles Du Ceppe: Duceppe.G@parl.gc.ca
Telephone: (613) 992-6779; Fax: (613) 954-2121

Libby Davies:Telephone: Davies.L@parl.gc.ca
Telephone: (604) 775-5800; Fax: (604) 775-5811

2412 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V5T 3E2

Don Davies: Davies.D@parl.gc.ca
2951 Kingsway Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia V5R 5J4

Here is a petition to sign by the Canadian Labour Congress:

I support a Coalition Government

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A Pleasure Pack of Political Pundits

Best Move for Liberals: Govern by Coalition
By Murray Dobbin. Published: November 19, 2008. TheTyee.ca

Coalition? Tories? A Pox on All!/
Rafe Mair. Published: December 1, 2008. TheTyee.ca

Coalition? Back off Jack!
NDP is crazy to team with Liberals and Bloc. Besides, Harper won. Bill Tieleman. Published: December 2, 2008. TheTyee.ca

B.C. bloggers react to coalition
The Hook.ca

Chinese in Vancouver
Susannah Ng.

Harper's Loss of Confidence
David Schreck, Strategic Thoughts.

From a speech to the Council for National Policy, a conservative American lobby group, June 1997, as reported by the CBC:

In terms of the unemployed... don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.

The Reform party is very much a modern manifestation of the Republican movement in Western Canada; the U.S. Republicans started in the western United States.