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Canadian Politics: The Wheel Is Still Round

05.20.2011 by Sandra Hoskins //

The theme for this week’s blog is a little esoteric.The Liberal Party of Canada and the Bloc Quebecois have just project managed themselves into obscurity.  Both parties will be invisible for the next four – five years.

The lessons that they should have learned:

  • Vision  is Crucial to Success.  The Liberal party platform was too detailed  for success.  When you write the new one,  remember you must tell me “What I Will Have When I Vote For You”.  Make the vision one that resonates.  Make it short.  There is nothing like a good tag line.
  • Legacy  ideas aren’t de rigueur.  The  political landscape has changed a lot in the last 20 years.  Platforms that used to get out the vote just don’t  work anymore.  The average voter  isn’t interested in the history of the party but ”what it can do for me today”.  From my perspective, it had better be about  reducing the deficit and taxes.  If you  reduce my taxes, I could pay for the things that you now give grants for.  I don’t need my government to be my  babysitter and caretaker.
  • The  Status Quo is dead.  We won’t settle for leaders and  platforms anymore.  Ask me what three  things keep me up at night.  There is an
    old Native American saying “never judge a person unless you have walked a 1000  steps in their moccasins”.  Stop telling  me what is good for me and listen when I tell you what I want.  Don’t polish it into a platform that I can’t
    in all good conscious support.
  • Grow  the Party with Innovative Ideas.  If you want new members, stop recycling  leaders, interim leaders and those groomed by the  establishment.  Stop picking policies that are a flash in the  pan.  Just in case you wondered, it is  time for a National Action Committee on the Status of People.  As politically incorrect as that statement  is, discrimination knows no gender, race, creed or orientation.  It is finally time for all people to be equal.

One of my  favourite cartoon characters is Marvin the Martian.  He has many things  that would make a good  leader such as tenacity, a thick skin, focus and the ability to exclude reality  from any situation.  But, he is also the densest  character when it comes to observing the situation around him and learning from  previous experience.  In a very real  sense, the Liberal party machine did everything right and everything wrong at  the same time.  But like Marvin the  Martian, they continue to follow a plan that isn’t working.  For Marvin, the Earth was the objective only the workflow needed improvement.  With  the Liberal Party, we had Canada as the objective but the program need serious  balance.

We are  Canadians and what works in one part of the country won’t work in another.  Stop picking programs intended to cater to  special interest groups and get back to being the party of all Canadians.

Mr. Harper and Mr. Layton don’t get comfortable.  Your turn is coming again. The Pirate Party of Canada will start looking better to young Canadians as Jack Sparrow continues to fill the movie screens of the world.

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