Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Showing posts with label Bill Casey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Casey. Show all posts

Friday, November 28, 2014

The return of Casey the rebel

Bill Casey became famous as the Conservative who faced down Stephen Harper. Now he’s a Liberal, and he wants to do it again.

After his 2007 standoff with Harper over offshore resources, Casey could have been elected dictator of Nova Scotia. He seemed to be the only federal Conservative taking the province’s side in the political scrap over the Atlantic Accord.

Casey wanted his party, the Conservatives, to respect the accord. The Harper government was trying to get around it via the federal budget. The budget would have added offshore oil and gas revenues here and in Newfoundland and Labrador to the federal equalization formula. Just as the offshore was turning profitable, Ottawa wanted to claw it all back.

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