any "nice" conservatives out there?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by RACooper

heh... the worst insult you can throw at a conservative up here is "Republican"; because both the Bush/Neo-Con association, but mostly because you're accusing the person of republicanism... only the extreme far-right fringe hold to those values

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Well thankfully I don't live up there.

I imagine part of the "insult" is that Canada isn't a republic. I would have thought, though, that Republicanism (i.e., wanting to establish a federal republic in place of a realm governed by the Queen-in-Parliament) in Canada would be viewed as quite liberal (in the sense of wanting to completely overhaul the system of government) rather than far-right fringe.

[RACooper]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I imagine part of the "insult" is that Canada isn't a republic. I would have thought, though, that Republicanism (i.e., wanting to establish a federal republic in place of a realm governed by the Queen-in-Parliament) in Canada would be viewed as quite liberal (in the sense of wanting to completely overhaul the system of government) rather than far-right fringe.

You'd think

But it in practice these last two decades, it has been the far-left NDP and centralist Liberals that have been the flag bearers for the Monarchy - they are the one that have opposed "conservative" motions to remove the Queen from the Oath of Allegiance and Citizen's Ceremony (new citizenship ceremony).

Canada's far-right have always had an element of the United North America republic nutjobs (trust me, a Canadian political nutjob is waaaaay out there), a trend going back to even before 'Canada'... in the old days, if a Tory was labelled a "republican" his career was done... now though, who knows, the political right has fractured and reformed, adopting a myriad of disperate political flavours. Anyways I'm a Old Tory, which among other things means a staunch defense of the Monarchy, Canadian (British) traditions/insitutions, the privacy of religion, equal taxation, respect for heirarchy/authority, and a fond rememberance of the days of Empire...

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by RACooper

Anyways I'm a Old Tory, which among other things means a staunch defense of the Monarchy, Canadian (British) traditions/insitutions, the privacy of religion, equal taxation, respect for heirarchy/authority, and a fond rememberance of the days of Empire...

LOL, exactly why my forebears left Long Island and moved to New Brunswick after finding themselves on the, shall we say, disappointed end of the American Revolution. Of course, some of the family trickled back down to the States -- it's how I ended up here instead of St. John. But sometimes, I think if one scratched my skin deep enough, they'd still find a bit of a monarchist.