A rose by any other name

The quiet and barely discussed decision by the current Conservative government to include Canadian pension plan assets in their purported debt reduction scheme should be sounding bells not only in the households of progressive families but also in the neo-fascist families of Canada as well.

One need only recall the efforts of the former extremist Reform party to privatize the pension plan and its links to the current Conservative party in order to see a not-so-secretive trend developing. Ever since Mr. Harper’s days with the poorly named Canadian Taxpayers Association (for I am a taxpayer and not once did the views of this special interest group ever coincide with my own), the Prime Minister has had an eye for privatizing the CPP and thereby forcing all Canadians to live the neo-fascist ideal of economic winners and losers based on social Darwinism. Many soft hearted individuals will complain of my reference to fascism here, but this would be due to the lack of comprehension of what fascism is. It has become a social faux pas to refer to the word, but a rose by any other name is still a rose.

By including the CPP’s assets in the government accounts, Mr. Harper has quietly begun the ball rolling towards weakening the CPP. This after the Liberals in the mid-nineties resolved the financial difficulties of the pension plan and restored its funding to ensure that all Canadians who need it will be able to benefit from it in the future. In Finance minister Jim Flaherty’s budget update last week the door was opened for future government attempts to borrow money from the CPP in order to use for paying down the national debt.

All levels of a society have a vested interest in seeing the funds of the Canadian pension plan go to the pensioners who contribute to it. If the government moves forward with its sinister plans for a society based on everyone fighting for themselves, then the most upper classes had better be prepared for a lower class revolt. This is what occurs when a government neglects the lower classes and caters to the interests of the wealthy elite, it has happened repeatedly in the past and there would be nothing stopping it from happening in the future.

When this government was elected many people were worried about a possible secret agenda of the Conservative party. In fact the true agenda of this government is not so secret; it is there for the public to observe. The problem is that the public has lost interest in keeping tabs on its political elites, and an informed public is the best protection against government corruption.

Should this party continue to be able to act in its role as government and continue to fulfill its own desires at the expense of all segments of society, no intelligent Canadian should be surprised if one day in the future we find our society has become embroiled in social upheaval.