Mark Taliano
The biggest threat to Canada’s national security is internal.
It is the offshoot of an extraordinarily successful — because it remains largely undetected — coup that imposed itself on the country with the federal election of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in 2006, and solidified its impacts with the election of a Conservative majority in 2011.
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Author, poet, academic, and former Canadian diplomat Professor Peter Dale Scott recently disclosed a wikileaks cable indicating that the International Republican Institute (IRI), an off-shoot of the CIA, and a subsidiary of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) helped install Stephen Harper as Canada’s Prime Minister. This was the coup.
Point 12 of the cable explains that; “In addition to the campaign schools, IRI will be bringing in consultants who specialize in party renovation to discuss case studies of political parties in Germany, Spain, and Canada which successfully carried out the process”
The “party renovation” referenced in the cable is the “renovation” of Canada’s indigenous Progressive Conservative Party into a Republican-inspired Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) that is largely subservient to the U.S Empire south of the border.
A similar, but more violent “renovation” process occurred in 2009 when the democratically-elected government of Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a U.S-orchestrated coup. It is also the same illegal “renovation” that is destabilizing Venezuela today, as the US interferes in the internal politics of that country, in what is often described as a “soft coup”.
Dr. Anthony James Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta Canada, explains the genesis of the Harper Conservative assault on the “Red Tory” traditions of Canada’s indigenous conservative party in Flanagan’s Last Stand? :
” The assault by the Harper-Flanagan juggernaut on the generally friendly orientation of Canadian conservatism towards the state, towards Indigenous peoples, and towards the institutions of Crown sovereignty helped clear aside obstacles to the importation from United States of the Republican Party’s jihad on managed capitalism. Flanagan and Harper took charge of the Canadian version of the Reagan Revolution aimed at transforming the social welfare state into the stock market state.”
The implications of this conservative “jihad” are a threat to our national security on many levels. Stephen Harper’s attacks on Canada’s knowledge base are foundational to what can only be described as an endorsement of man-made climate change, which is likely the foremost threat to both humanity and to Canada.
The Fifth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stresses the urgency to act now to mitigate catastrophic climate change, and yet the Harper government is moving Canada in the opposite direction. Most recently, the Harper government ratified a bilateral agreement with China, the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPPA), which all but guarantees further expansion of Canada’s Tar Sands, and an expansion of its carbon economy.
Canada’s warmongering also bodes poorly for our collective security. The Conservative government has exploited the collective shock of the murder of Corporal Cirillo at Ottawa’s National War Monument, and the subsequent shoot-out at the House of Commons, by falsely conflating the tragedy with “Islamic terrorism” and by using it as a pretext to wage illegal warfare against ISIS. Many Canadians, including Cpl. Nathan Cirillo’s girlfriend, argue that we should be addressing the tragedy by improving Canada’s capacity to provide mental health care for all of its citizens, yet that is not part of the Harper government’s longstanding agenda.
Instead of working to stop the flow of money and arms to proxy mercenary armies – that are for the most part allied with the West to illegally topple the government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad — Canada has instead chosen to use military options, all but guaranteeing prolonged and deadly warfare which will exact a horrendous toll on innocent civilians.
This militarism will likely be a threat to Canada’s security as well, since Canada will increasingly be associated with war crimes and imperial hegemony abroad, rather than peace-keeping.
The largely undetected coup, as revealed by the wikileaks cable, goes a long way towards explaining Canada’s current predicament. This secret intervention in Canada’s political landscape will continue to undermine our country’s prosperity and security, unless we become more conscious of its insidious impacts and choose instead trajectories towards peace and national security. The foundational (though suppressed) evidence is shouting that we’re on the wrong course, and that we need to make changes fast.
Mark Taliano is a Niagara, Ontario resident and regular contributor of news and analysis to Niagara At Large.
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What is the difference between Harper and Putin? Different spelling!
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Well said!
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The PBS station, Buffalo channel 17 just had a Frontline documentary about Vladimir Putin on Wednesday night, and how a member of the NKVD took control over the Russian Empire, and used secret police to start a 9/11 situation within Russia and blame Chechen terrorists for the killing and bombing of thousands of Russian ordinary people ,involving whole blocks of apartment buildings, some people that lived in one block managed to get to a bomb and dismantle it before it went off, it was made with explosives that only Russian military could have access too. Boris Yeltsin a former leader of Russia was responsible for elevating Putin to the top job. check PBS and stream the past show via your laptop or PC .Their corruption is endemic and involves western leaders. Fox News, is a passionate admirer of that corrupt and brutal Russian usurper of power .Vladimir Putin.!!!
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Mark has got to the nub of what’s happened to our beautiful country called Canada, it started with NAFTA, the Canadian and US Chamber’s of Commerce inspired, so called free trade pact, we are no longer masters of our own house, we are subjects of the US political landscape. we no longer call the shots here, we are now a branch plant of Washington DC, it took 10 years of conniving and the election of Brian Mulroney to deliver our economy, on a platter to our southern neighbours. Only one political Party want’s to change things or pull out of this job destroying deal, it is the Green Party of Canada, We would demand changes, or issue a declaration that after six months notice to our partners, the NAFTA Accords are dead .We do not have a foreign policy anymore that is made in Canada , it is decided by the Tea Party Republican style politicians , even our Stephen Harper and Tim Hudak employ election gurus from the far right , and import their ideas into our election campaigns. These foreign methods are against the ideals and thinking of most Canadians. slash and burn is not part of our DNA. We Northerners, still care about our neighbours and fellow Canadians. Our whole survival skills were honed through our interdependence and social experience.. The notion that Canadians would give up our way of life to foreign ideas is a none starter.
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Mark
As usual you speak with resounding truth of the orchestration by outside elements that has and is moving Canada towards a purely U.S Republican Empire. It has been reported very wealthy American Institutes and groups (The Koch Brothers and the American Enterprise Institute are flushing money into Canadian Right Wing Groups, such as the Fraser Institute with the intent to solidify that which has already begun. It is no secret that Mike Harris got his marching orders from and through the Fraser Institute and has along with Preston Manning have written books outlining the new order in the world. Many of us who care about the world for our children know the extent of the Americanization of the world and speak out against Corporate medias but our words are muted by the brainwashing by these gigantic Corporate conglomerates. A plot I first read about in a novel written by David Orchard called the FIGHT for CANADA tells a history of American imperialism that dates back to the American Revolution and that greed as grown by leaps and bounds to where it is no longer a well kept secret,
God Bless Canada …Well!!! I Think it is better to pray and say GOD HELP CANADA and while this is being done relegate the Conservative goons back to the garbage dump where they came from…..
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“Flanagan and Harper took charge of the Canadian version of the Reagan Revolution aimed at transforming the social welfare state into the stock market state.” If there’s one iota of truth in this, then it’s just another feather in PM Harper’s hat. It’s the best thing they could’ve orchestrated. Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history (and by far its finest actor), so I find any assimilation quite complimentary, in spite of the relentless flogging of the current administration by a deeply-entrenched, hopelessly and hatefully indoctrinated Left. I pray “God help Canada” too, from the waves of disillusionment presented in this divisive article and its predictable supporting cast of follow-up commentators. Whenever there’s any Conservative success, it’s always labeled as some kind of corporate conspiracy and shenanigans stemming from the U.S. In terms of monetary support for political parties, the Conservatives always lead in contributions by individuals. When I hear Stephen Harper compared to Putin or even Hitler, I find that the ignorance is not so blissful.
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The chimp was a better actor than Reagan. As for President……?
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Mr. Tripp, et al.
Some of us do not have partisan affiliations at all. But we are well read. I know I am flogging a dead horse here as a mere librarian, but have all you pundits actually read Samara’s Tragedy in the Commons, Flanagan’s recent book after being dumped by Harper, or Lawrence Martin’s book or Paul Well’s book on Harper, or Michael Harris’ one? Or any others? I would bet not, because going online, rather than informing oneself through reading is always the easier way, isn’t it? I have read all those books and more, including the one on the Wichita Koch brothers. Try to stay neutral, if you can. .
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I have respect for all librarians. As a librarian you, more than others, should be aware that authors, no matter what medium they use, promote their bias. To be neutral, one reads both sides and accepts the fact that truth is somewhere in between. As well, we live in the environment created by the decisions of these politicians.
We no longer have the Canadian Government; we have the Harper Government! Perhaps we will have a referendum attached to the next federal election : “Should we change the name of our nation from Canada to Harperland?
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All politicians are actors. (Yes, “Bonzo” was great too.) Pick your purveyors of poison and align your core values with your preference of propaganda pushers. Sleep at night with the reassurance you’ve done your personal best in some small way to further your cause to the broader public. Otherwise, all is unarguably vanity.
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I’m not hearing much in favour of neutrality. More pride and prejudice. I’d never heard any suggestions for Canada to ever be renamed “Chrétienland” or “Trudeauland”, so I guess Mr. Harper’s really gaining some notoriety. Never in our history have I detected such hatred and resentment for one person. Even to say “the Harper Government” is to allude to a tin-horn dictatorship. The polls will announce otherwise. Canada is much more and much better than that. Narrow-minded, anti-government bigotry is a backward stance. I’ll leave this vane debate to the librarians and other diligent Canadian readers and analysts.
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I am commenting to the media’s frequent references to the Canadian Government as the Harper Government.
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I think we are all in agreement about the poisonous Harper Govt. I just ask that some of the pundits online here actually read some of the books, both sides of the case. That is all. I fear that too many people do not bother to read both sides of the coin, as it were.
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I admire the exclusivity of your “we” not including “me”. Sort of gives me a sense of national pride. Hail to the readers and the sowers of discord.
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I am using the Harper technique of responding by taking your quote of January 19h ” … “the Harper Government” is … a tin-horn dictatorship.”
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Oh my, oh my. I am hoping ‘vane debate’ was meant to be ‘vain debate.’ I recall being in my Conservative MPP Rick Dykstra’s office years ago, referring to the Harper Government; and Rick admonished me “it is your government, not the Harper government, Gail.” Then, as it turns out, the feds have actually chosen to call themselves The Harper government several years later.. They like it. They now use it in all sorts of media and advertisements. One can check this out.
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