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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gulo who wrote (3830)	4/6/2004 11:02:44 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37176

For example, the Liberals support certain social freedoms (e.g., gay marriage) while denying many others (private property, truly representative democracy, etc.). The CPC has no official policy on the controversial social freedoms but many elements balk at them. On the other hand, the CPC supports personal economic and political freedom in general. Which of these is right or left? While the CPC doesn't have an official policy on a number of social issues, a large percentage of its members do and among them there are different camps. I'm not a proponent of relaxing drug laws, for example. There are also extremely large interest groups within the CPC who do not believe in the separation between Church and State and would love to see an agenda drive by their religious view on issues ranging from Same Sex Marriage to Abortion. I do not believe in mixing church and state. CPC members also include a fair number who take a "hang em high" attitude on Iraq and seem quite willing to support the US blindly in foreign adventures. I believe we are barely sovereign ourselves and looking inward should be our first priority - and supporting the US in Iraq should not be our policy. Clearly I'm at odds with some - not all - in our party. But I would not say its "wrong" for people to paint the CPC as being more "right" if "right" includes social conservatism and military support of the US in the pursuit of their foreign policy.