Ron Paul to be marquee speaker at Canada's premier gathering of Conservatives [Friday 3/8]

BRRRRR !! Canada..in March.. for a Texan

hope he has snow boots and woolies
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He has those L.L.Bean clothes he got in Maine during the primary campaign.
 
Tinnuhana said:
He has those L.L.Bean clothes he got in Maine during the primary campaign.
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He looked like he was wearing a warm up jacket.

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Confederate said:
Canada's premier conservative think tank is the Fraser Institute, which is very pro-liberty and quite Austrian in economics.

It depends, though. If you're talking about the federal Conservative Party, they're mostly neoconservatives and what in the US would be 'moderate' Republicans. They have a few good pro-liberty MP's but I'd say it's only around 5.

Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party is decent and have been in power since 1971. The great thing is they're now challenged by the Wildrose Party which is very libertarian and fiscal conservative.
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A lot of the "libertarian" MPs are 'socially liberal, fiscally moderate-conservative" Jon Huntsman types like Rona Ambrose. There is 1 really good guy, Ontario MP Scott Reid, but he's the only true Austrian libertarian in the Conservative Party. Luckily, he's in quite a senior position within the party.

Like Cato, Fraser is good, but Koch-backed, which personally I don't mind, but I know a lot of people dislike.
 
What I would really like to see, and am hoping they will livestream for a fee or not, is Ron's debate/discussion with Manning, an ex Canadian prime minister Reform leader, and past Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, which is scheduled after Ron's speech. I want to see the speech too, of course, but the q and as and discussions are always the best part.
 
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sailingaway said:
What I would really like to see, and am hoping they will livestream for a fee or not, is Ron's debate/discussion with Manning, an ex Canadian prime minister, which is scheduled after Ron's speech. I want to see the speech too, of course, but the q and as and discussions are always the best part.
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He was the PM? I thought he was just the Reform leader.
 
well, I haven't found what I read before but in any event you are right, he was reform leader not PM, so I will correct that.....

Manning was elected to the House of Commons in the 1993 federal election as the MP for Calgary Southwest. Reform had a major breakthrough in this election, winning 52 seats. Of those, 51 were in Western Canada (the other being Simcoe Centre in Ontario), where the party's strong performance was largely because the Progressive Conservatives' support in that region transferred almost en masse. Literally overnight, Manning found himself as the leader of the major right-wing party in Canada.

Despite finishing second in the popular vote, Reform came up three seats short of becoming the Official Opposition, largely because the sovereigntist Bloc Québécois' concentration of support in Quebec was slightly larger than Reform's concentration of support in the West. However, the Liberal government under Jean Chrétien characterized Manning and Reform as their main opponent on non-Quebec matters. In 1995 when Bloc leader Lucien Bouchard's position as Opposition Leader granted him a meeting with visiting US President Bill Clinton, Manning was also given a meeting with Clinton in order to diffuse Bouchard's separatist leverage.[4]

In the 1997 election, the party won the second-most seats in the Commons, with Manning becoming the Leader of the Opposition.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Manning
 
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An NDP (democratic socialist) MP attacks Ron Paul.

http://news.yahoo.com/controversial...anadian-conservative-gathering-233627550.html
OTTAWA - Former Republican presidential candidate and libertarian Ron Paul will be the marquee speaker at Canada's premier gathering of Conservatives next month, a figure that even organizers bill as controversial.

Paul will speak to the Manning Centre for Building Democracy's networking conference, an event that in the past has drawn Prime Minister Stephen Harper and many of his key cabinet members and advisers.

Paul, referred to by some pundits as the real inspiration behind the Tea Party movement in the United States, is one of the foremost voices for small government — including eliminating foreign aid, the education department, key social programs and the war on drugs.

He is staunchly anti-abortion, anti-gun control, and opposed to President Barack Obama's health-care reform. The 77-year-old has advocated for an end to Medicare and Medicaid in the United States.

A Texan, Paul is a former doctor turned congressman and currently the chairman of the Campaign for Liberty. He was able to assemble a loyal following over the course of two Republican races in 2008 and 2011, notably with the use of the Internet.

"We oppose the dehumanizing assumption that all issues that divide us must be settled at the federal level and forced on every American community, whether by activist judges, a power-hungry executive, or a meddling Congress," says the campaign's website.

"We believe in the humane alternative of local self-government, as called for in our Constitution."

Olivier Ballou, a spokesman for the Manning Centre, said centre president Preston Manning himself will engage in an on-stage discussion with Paul following the former presidential candidate's speech.

"He's definitely our biggest attraction and source of controversy," Ballou said. "He's one of those guys that people either love him or hate him. It's fascinating since we announced him seeing the debates online."

On the Manning Centre's Facebook page, commenters were divided about the wisdom of having Paul speak at the conference.

"Ron Paul is a fool who will only discredit this fine attempt at preparing conservative minds for the future," read one post.

"Ron Paul is the best politician in the U.S.A., the real deal. Very smart man, can't believe he isn't President he's so smart," said another.

Conservative parliamentarians who are on the schedule for the conference were markedly terse in their reaction to Paul's participation.

"I actually have heard him speak in the past, and while I disagree with what he says on occasion, I'll defend to the death his right to say it," said Treasury Board President Tony Clement.

"The Manning Centre conference has a history of bringing up a wide variety of different speakers to appeal to a wide variety of different audiences, so I don't think that'll be any different this time around," said Calgary MP Michelle Rempel.

Although there are many libertarians in the ranks of the Conservative party, including Harper himself, Paul's small government is a different breed than that expressed publicly by Conservatives in power. Universal health care, official languages policy and supply management are just three areas that would be anathema to Paul's positions.

Participants might more in common in another speaker — former Australian prime minister John Howard. Some in Harper's team borrowed liberally from Howard's campaign and communications style over the years.

Opposition MPs said it's telling that Paul was selected to speak to Canada's top Conservatives.

"We know that the right in Canada are getting loonier all the time, but I think it's very telling that they're bringing in Mr. Ron Paul," said NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus.

"Mr. Ron Paul is a marginal figure in the United States where the right are extremely right wing, so the Harperites think they're going to learn lessons from him? It might show an indication of where their backbench is certainly wanting to go."

Said Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia: "I don't understand what wisdom Mr. Paul can bring to the Canadian setting. We're a very different country with very different issues."

Paul courted controversy earlier this week when he tweeted that the "death of a former NAVY Seal at a shooting range confirmed that 'he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.’ Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn’t make sense."'

Paul is strongly non-interventionist when it comes to American military activities, and voted against the war in Iraq.
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Might anyone know if this event has been narrowed down further than *next month*?
 
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Thanks Sailing :) my buddy in Scarborough still says Ottawa is just too inhospitable for him to go in March but he'll keep an eye out for broadcasts of the event.
 
opal said:
Thanks Sailing :) my buddy in Scarborough still says Ottawa is just too inhospitable for him to go in March but he'll keep an eye out for broadcasts of the event.
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If he sees any he should let us know, or if he hears of any livestreams...
 
...so.... I wonder if health care aides in general are worried about Ron Paul coming to town or if just this one happened to know... the person posting is hoping for an 'Ann Coulter like demonstration against him'. No clue why she thinks that. h xxp://www.democraticunderground.com/10022464937
 
sailingaway said:
...so.... I wonder if health care aides in general are worried about Ron Paul coming to town or if just this one happened to know... the person posting is hoping for an 'Ann Coulter like demonstration against him'. No clue why she thinks that. h xxp://www.democraticunderground.com/10022464937
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Just another whiney lefty who can't handle a debate. Judging from the lack of responses to her thread, looks like her attempt to rally people to protest against Dr. Paul has failed.

MORE Canadian socialists trying to bash Dr. Paul

A left-leaning think tank is chiding a right-leaning think tank for inviting the 'Godfather of the Tea Party movement' to speak at an event later this week.

The Manning Centre for Building Democracy — of which Preston Manning is the President and CEO — has invited Ron Paul to speak its annual Manning Networking Conference (MNC) which, "brings together conservative-oriented thinkers, interest groups, activists, politicians, critics, and students."

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The Broadbent Institute — named after former NDP leader Ed Broadbent — is "concerned" about it.


Former Republican Congressman Ron Paul has been invited to speak at this year’s Manning Centre convention in Ottawa. Considered the “Godfather of the Tea Party movement”, he will deliver the keynote address at an event about “Big Ideas for Conservatives”.

If you are wondering what Ron Paul has to teach Canadians, or why the Manning Centre has invited him to share his perspective, you are not alone.

Broadbent's team has produced a video reminding Canadians who Ron Paul is.

"The same Ron Paul who recently suggested: The United States should have competing currencies," claims an excerpt from the video.

"And on the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act suggested that it violated the constitution and reduced individual liberties.

"Oh, and it's 2013 and he still doesn't believe in climate change."
You can see the video and accompanying quiz here.

It's a clever tactic tying the Conservative Party to the Tea Party.

Not that anyone should be surprised but, according to the Globe and Mail, the Tea Party isn't that popular in Canada.


Canadians not only feel their economic prospects are superior, they also look at U.S. politics and see an inferior, wobbly, hyper-partisan mess.

[Pollster Nik] Nanos, who conducted the online survey of 1,004 Canadians from Aug. 24 to 29, says Canadians still have a soft spot for U.S. President Barack Obama (he’s doing his best, two-thirds of them say), but when they factor in the rise of the intransigent and destabilizing Tea Party, they “give U.S. politics a rather poor rating.”

[ Related: Tea Party Republicans are their own party’s worst enemy ]

The MNC attracts Conservative Party operatives, staffers and even MPs. In addition to Paul, this year's conference includes panels with MPs Michelle Rempel, Joan Crockatt, Candace Bergen, Jason Kenney, Maxime Bernier and Tony Clement.

According to the conference program, Paul will speak for one hour at 9.15 a.m. on Friday morning followed by a question and answer period with Manning.

"A physician by training," notes the agenda, "Congressman Ron Paul built a huge following among young online activists during the last Republican primaries."

The MNC takes place in Ottawa between March 7-9. Registration costs $399 for adults and $100 for students.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/cana...l-canadian-speaking-engagement-225202313.html
 
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yeah, that's the establishment liberal think tank bashing the conservative think tank and being 'concerned' that they are inviting Ron.... isn't that sort of like thinkprogress being concerned about what Heritage is doing, here?
 
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