Here is a quote from James Laxer, a well known Canadian left nationalist, and one of the founders of the Waffle group. It is from the site Rabble. http://www.rabble.ca/politics.shtml?sh_itm=8d811e83d96c88510bbdca2cfffcf99f&rXn=1&;
>From the political right, once a strong source of support for a sovereign Canada distinct from the United States, Canadians now receive continentalist rhetoric, buoyed up by neo-conservative notions that the strong state is anathema to a free people. Neo-conservative ideas propel Canada toward descent into a series of regional extensions of the United States, tethered together by a weak federal government. Don't neo-conservatives in the US require a strong central government? The government needs to be strong in order to fund the imperial project, to project imperial power globally and to protect the property rights negotiated under free trade agreements and to enforce the policies of IMF and World Bank? I think Laxer confuses the neo-conservative ideology with that of libertarians. Many libertarians such as those at Anti-war.com are completely opposed to neo-conservatism but opposed to a strong state with extensive power. The neo-conservative state is completely at odds with a free people but that is because it is not weak or limited at all. Cheers, Ken Hanly Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
