Is the Tea Party Canada-bound?

[Salyut]

hurf durf toronto sun (http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/08/30/15188636.html)


OTTAWA - Are Canadians getting fed up with government regulations, rules and taxes? The man behind an attempt to start a Tea Party movement in Canada hopes so.

This past weekend hundreds of thousands of Americans flocked to Washington for a rally about taking back their country. They came to hear speakers such as Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, and although not explicitly a Tea Party event, the crowd drew many from the movement that calls for government to get government off the backs of hard working people.

Andrew Lawton wants to bring that spirit to Canada.

Lawton, a conservative-leaning activist from London, Ont., is one of the organizers behind an online attempt to start a Tea Party movement in Canada.

Starting with a Facebook group, Lawton says there are plans for rallies this fall in Ottawa and Quebec City. Other cities may be added.

There are differences between the two countries Lawton acknowledges but adds the basis of the movement is the same.

“The issues differ but the ideology stays the same. Advocating for smaller government, freedom and letting people live their own lives.”

“One person came up to me recently and said that freedom is an American value,” said Lawton. “That’s not true. It’s an attitude I want to change.”


Complimentary facebook link. (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=332858257451#!/group.php?gid=332858257451&v=wall)

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Somehow, I highly doubt that will catch on.

[Pavlov's House Party]

Some provinces, especially Alberta may dive deeper into reaction, but the general conciousness in places like Ontario, BC etc is much too liberal.

Quebec has an impressive leftist history, but even a few years ago a rightist anti-immigrant party called "Action Democratique" almost got into power. By the next year they were thrown into the "dustbin of history" when the general class conciousness in Quebec changed and a radical left party composed of environmentalists, independance types and all kinds of communists won a riding in Montreal.

I'm not sure about the rest of Canada, but if there was anything comparable to the American Tea Party in Quebec it would be hard to tell because the issues are different here. Instead of the American "liberty and democracy" crap many right wing groups here are openly racist and want to send all immigrants back where they came from, force Natives off reservations and Anglophones into other provinces/ culturally assimilate them and even ban all other languages except French. I won't count independance as a "reactionary" thing just because it is popular amongst the right (if only for racist purposes), but because the Quebecois are an oppressed nationality and deserve the right to self determination.

Indeed if there were tea partyish movements in Quebec and the rest of Canada, they would probably fight eachother as much as the government.

[Peter The Painter]

Even though Canada and the US, were stolen from the Natives, the Americans then tried to invade Canada, so "Canadian Patriots" will not like the tea party orogins, though, i suppose, reaction is not exactly logical :)

[Die Neue Zeit]

Any "Tea Party" proto-movement in Canada can be countered by more mainstream propaganda: appeals to anti-Americanism, to Canadian sovereignty, to genuine Nativism on the part of Canada's First Nations (in spite of being treated better than their American counterparts), etc.

[Autumn Red]

If they're actually considering to do something in ma Ville de Québec I have a harsh reality for them. There is actually a fairly active Anarchist population in Québec.

I'm going to send this news to all the collectives that I know of here.

[Peter The Painter]

They wont get far with the Quebec Erectionary Anarchs :)

[Fietsketting]

They wont get far with the Quebec Erectionary Anarchs :)

Are you some sort of confused troll?

[Peter The Painter]

No LOL it was a joke from the erectionary thread.

[Salyut]

Any "Tea Party" proto-movement in Canada can be countered by more mainstream propaganda: appeals to anti-Americanism, to Canadian sovereignty, to genuine Nativism on the part of Canada's First Nations (in spite of being treated better than their American counterparts), etc.

I'd like to see that - but I don't know if the Left in Canada is capable of pulling something like that off without being shut out by the Liberals or the Tories

I suspect this is essentially a attempt by the Tories to rejuvenate its support base, same with the Sun Media thing. Hell, Harper is pulling the evil coalition thing out of the bag again.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

The Tea-Party is very much a US-only movement, I doubt it will get far outside America. I'm sure someone tried to start a UK branch, but I havn't heard anything about that beyond its apparent founding.

[Die Neue Zeit]

I'd like to see that - but I don't know if the Left in Canada is capable of pulling something like that off without being shut out by the Liberals or the Tories

That's the point though. Appeals to the above (except the First Nations Nativism, which would be akin to European anti-immigration politics) can be made by the Liberals, NDP, and PQ/Bloc (Tea Party crap not being "in the interests of Quebec/Quebecers").

[Salyut]

That's the point though. Appeals to the above (except the First Nations Nativism, which would be akin to European anti-immigration politics) can be made by the Liberals, NDP, and PQ/Bloc (Tea Party crap not being "in the interests of Quebec/Quebecers").

This has been done in the past. Didn't work.

[danyboy27]

heard the main ''leader'' of the quebec tea party at my right wing radio station radio X.

they are organizing some kind of meeting in october, one of the main speaker will be the creator of the new tv station sun tv.

http://www.quebec-freedom.ca/

100 people already ''joined'' this group.

they stated that they where not like the american tea party in the sense they are not religious and against any kind of social conservatism.

i wish zizek could be there for a ''anti-meeting'' that would rock.