Beyond the Right with the Grassroots

There is no doubt, Reformers within the federal Tory coalition are ticked right off with their United Right fiasco, one that I personally called at least three times there in the past. One after the 1997 Canadian federal election, when I felt Preston Manning was getting closer towards leaving the original grassroots ideology of Reform by speaking about becoming part of a Conservative ideology. The next was the United Alternative initiative of 1999 and 2000, when Stockwell Day took over from Manning, they began their destruction of old Reform and their beginning of new Tory through their Focus Federally For Reform while I worked along with Ontario's brand of Grassroots United Against Reform's Demise with success unfortunately. Then finally the last rebellion to force the Uniting the Right wing by allowing the upstart Democratic Representative Caucus to split from the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance, undemocratically oust and then replace Day with Stephen Harper, allow Harper to take his bring back the real Reform Party of Canada leadership mantra from his speeches back, watch as Peter Mackay lies to David Orchard in their leadership race he wins, cheats their grassroots members from having a chance to keep their own party and undemocratically merges it up the federal Tories with the Alliance in 2003!

I personally started walking away from Reform when this Unite the Right started taking hold, I got back in contact with the federal Green movement by the time the Alliance had started then eventually the regionalist Ontario movement by the time the Alliance had ended. As a Progressive Democratic Reformer from the political Centre of Canada, I understood we had a civic duty to help keep Canada indivisibly united as is through brand new change towards a deal for Re-Con-Federation. Having now worked within the Reform-Alliance movement made me realize there were grassroots citizens who wanted a fiscally, socially and environmentally responsible alternative that was also home to civil libertarians and democratic reformers who didn't necessarily believe they were Conservative Tories from the Right Wing, yes there were principled conservatives, but there were also principled liberals and independents, disillusioned New Democrats and Greens and they all just wanted a greater good government that worked by, of and for the people.

So, now we read in the media about this grassroots political initiative, one that I may add that I am personally involved within, that I am working within this type of movement proves this isn't a gaggle of disgruntled Tories considering refounding the Reform Party, as that was seen then, now still is, as one Western Canadian political vehicle of grassroots political reform for alienated and discontented quasi separatists such as those in the defunct Western Canada Concept, Western Independence Party and reserved Party of Alberta. The argument really could also be made that we are disgruntled grassrooters considering recreating an anti-separatist version of the Bloc Québécois in Ontario. So as we go into the meetup in Kingston tomorrow, can we all just simply keep an open mind so we can try to think big and outside of the box for the sake of Canada?