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Since our website began in May of 2005, we have received a number of emails from our readers who share our views about the potential crisis Canada is facing.

	I was surprised to find this link from the Globe & Mail. I agree with the objectives you "allege" Mr. Harper harbours. I think it is obvious to any thinking Canadian that the way to save this great country is to evolve. To respect and reflect the character of its regions. If we continue to perpetuate the current system (which affords a political party absolute power, if they are sucessful in pandering to the population center of the country) Canada will not survive. Anyone who thinks the current political structure can survive the withdrawal from Canada of Quebec is a fool. Why not be proactive. Accommodate Quebec's aspirations within Canada, and ensure the policies that satisfy those aspirations are available to all Provinces and regions. Thank God that Canada will be very different than what we have today....a Canada based upon fairness and equality. Craig Corser
	I just found Bloc-Harper.com. Congratulations! I just wish every Canadian could read all the information you have posted. I am heartsick at what the Harper/Flanagan conservatives will do to our country, if given a chance. I am also dismayed that so many Canadians are not willing to think through their vote. Mention lower taxes and $1200 a year to replace quality child care and many jump on the conservative wagon. I guess all I can say is that people get what they deserve. Sad, isn't it? I just retired and the prospect of living in Italy is becoming more appealing as we approach Jan. 23!
	Dear Mr. Sinclair, your Bloc-Harper site is a surprisingly lonely voice of clarity out there in the media landscape. I have been utterly appalled at the poor quality of the mainstream Canadian media during this election. They've been treating the election like some kind of sporting event. The people of Canada, including the majority of those who will vote Conservative, simply have no idea what they're getting into - what Harper really stands for, what he has always stood for. And now even the Globe and Mail, under Marcus Gee's neocon editorial direction, has taken to spinning everything the Liberals do negatively and casting Harper as the reasoned, responible statesman. You're right that the 'new federalism' is really sovereignty-association by another name, for all the provinces. Moreover, Harper's plan will lead in short order to the full-monty separation of Quebec from Canada. As soon as the Parti Quebecois wins a provincial election in Quebec, they've promised to hold another referendum. By that time, the federal government will have become so utterly irrelevant in Quebec that the 'soft federalists' who in the past voted for staying in Canada (from their wallets, not their hearts) will see no further reason to do so. Several percent of soft-federalist votes will swing into the Sovereignist camp, and Quebec will become an independent nation. Then the debate will begin over whether the anglo Provinces should try to stay together as a rump Canada, or choose some other alternative. In Alberta, they will be debating whether to go it alone, join the USA, or stay in a rump Confederation. If Alberta chooses any but the last of these three options, Canada will break up entirely, with several Provinces -- starting with the Maritimes -- most likely to become U.S. states. All this is happening because Harper spent two years relentlessly slandering the Liberals and repeating the words "Liberal" and "corrupt" in the same sentence so often that it has become folk wisdom that "the Liberals are corrupt" -- whereas in reality, Paul Martin is Mr. Clean, a man bending over backward to do the right thing and be seen to do the right thing by being "forthright when problems occur" as they did in relation to the tiny coterie of kickback-takers associated with one Minister in the Chretien-era government. There has been no serious discussion whatsoever, in the national media, of the implications of this change in government. No discussion of Harper's core agenda. It's scandalous; the major media have failed Canada, and in my view, this shows clearly that Canada is a managed pseudo-democracy, not a real democracy. No country in western Europe would have been left with such a weak debate; the media do their jobs, there. Here, corporate concentration of the media is so intense, and the editorial rooms are so uniform, that the major news chains are really 'public opinion management agencies', not real tools of democratic societal self-analysis. I would like to ask you to do whatever you can, during the next few days, to minimize the damage. Please get out there and do some interviews, and call up your friends. Explain Harper's plan for Canada and its implications, and encourage people to vote Liberal. I think a few public statements from one or more Mulroney-era Conservative ministers would give a lot of voters pause as they are herded like sheep by the national public opinion management chains into the voting-booth on behalf of Harper's pseudo-Conservative party. Please call up every influential figure on your Rolodex and get out there in public to urge people to vote Liberal, explaining why, exactly as you do on your Bloc-Harper website. Thanks for doing what you can. J. Zimmermann Vancouver more feedback >>