Comments on: Ad for Canada's CCF party, 1957

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:48:00 +0000

I still have my Rhino Party badge! I’ll take a picture and post it later.

By: RedMonkey

RedMonkey — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:54:00 +0000

OK, so you think the Tories are “going” to do something to the Canada Health Act; or they have done something to the Canada Health Act and if so what?

By: Lolotehe

Lolotehe — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:48:00 +0000

January 8th, 1959
The members’ voice in annual decree
Has named you one who shall o’er see
The record of the cash paid out eke received
In CCF accounts; so minds may be relieved
Of doubt that the great hoard of money fair
Entrusted to my hand has not been thieved
Or may perhaps squandered been, or hid within my lair
But has been safely lodged in Royal’s vault
And record kept all thirteen dollars, thirty cents of it.
Will you then kindly sire, I humbly pray.
Ah will you? Suppliant I ask, please name the day
When you will wrestle with this mighty task
And, to my record, add the signature I ask.
–Margret Isabella Burton (my grandmother)
Sent to Fred Jernslet to raise him to his duties of auditing the CCF books for Sannich before the annual meeting

By: rocketpjs

rocketpjs — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:00:00 +0000

You lose a lot of credibility when you claim Pearson – a lifelong Liberal and diplomat, as a member of the PC party.

And for what it’s worth, he enacted health care legislation while in a minority government, when he needed the support of the lefties.

For that matter, most of the good legislation that Canadians love so much came during minority governments, when the Liberals needed the CCF or NDP to help them stay in power.

By: liquidstar

liquidstar — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:54:00 +0000

The Health act has been under assault since herr harper got in. The death of a 1000 cuts, all adding up to a flailing , failing system that can evenutally justify a two-tiered system. Don’t like waiting in line for 8 hours (not an exaggeration)? Get a private doctor. On a darker note this is also what is in store for the govt. of Canada too: Spend as much as humanly possible, collapse the system, justify “austerity” which in reality means complete vulnerability to corporate rule in the form of debt collapse. The Healthcare system is definately in his sights, (perhaps we could go through his second 400 plus page omnibus bill in 2 years – i m sure there s something in there if you can find it). his father’s religious beliefs included the strict tenet that it was morally wrong to help people socially, that it would encourage sin – so judging by his current agendas and propagandas I d say it s only a matter of time before he sets to on it with a vengeance.

By: .

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:37:00 +0000

I always knew them as “Crazy Cocky Farmers”, courtesy of my (old white male) grandfather. I’m sure he’d be voting repugnican if he could.

By: RedMonkey

RedMonkey — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:12:00 +0000

Yes Liberal – Lester B. “Mike” Pearson; because Lester is no name for an Airman. Although I kind of also wonder what assault on Healthcare the Tories are being accused of …

By: Eric Logan

Eric Logan — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:02:00 +0000

Pearson was a Liberal, chief.

By: jamestgraham

jamestgraham — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:50:00 +0000

Cory, would like to elaborate on the “assault” by “Harper’s” government? I don’t see any assault on the Canada Health Act.

This socialist party may have been responsible for the model that was later adopted federally, but may I remind you that it was enacted by Lester B. Pearson as prime minister and leader of the federal PC party.

By: Jardine

Jardine — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:39:00 +0000

I bet that it bugs the shit out of the Reform Party people that the CCF started in Calgary.