Bob Rae, Capitalist Tool


We've all heard the saying, "If you're not a socialist when you're young, you have no heart. If you're a socialist when you're old, you have no brain." Bob Rae may make himself look brainless with his comparison of the softwood lumber agreement to the Munich Pact, but old Bob is quite shrewd in his latest political incantation.
Like Buzz Hargrove, Rae has decided to abandon the lowly working class stiffs in order to suck up to the power elites. Deciding vanity and ego are more important than principles, Rae is hoping to hop into bed with the kind of people who can-he hopes-make him Prime Minister.
When Conrad Black raided the pension fund of the workers at his Dominion grocery store chain, helping himself to the pension plan surplus, the workers went to court. The judge in the case ruled in favour of the workers and Black had to return the funds. When Paul Martin raided the pension plan surplus of the unionized workers at the Voyageur busline, which Martin owned at the time, the workers went to the government to complain. The government official-appointed to his job by Martin-ruled in Martin's favour. Apparently Liberals believe court rulings can be trusted only when the courts don't interfere with the rights of Liberal multi-millionare politicians. Rae is joining Hargrove in this class privilege warfare.
When China was building the internationally condemned, enviromentally disasterous Three Gorges Dam, Terence Corcoron wrote in the Report on Business that the Chretien Liberal government was putting up a one billion dollar loan guarantee to help the project. Why? Because the Desmarais family-owned Power Corp was involved in the mega-project.
The Kyoto Accord was designed in part by Maurice Strong, who is connected to Power Corp. Under the terms of Kyoto, if Canada can't meet it's impossible conditions to reduce greenhouse gases, Canada must send billions to developing countries. Those billions would help build...dams for hydro electricity. And who would benefit from that? John Rae, Chretien's organizer, Power Corp employee and brother of Bob has decided that the person to move Canada away from a made-in-Canada solution to greenhouse gas reduction and back to one that would benefit Power Corp is none other than Bob. Who would suspect a socialist wrapping himself up in the Green flag of being a capitalist tool?
The Liberals have a neat trick of calling themselves "progressive" while funnelling the money meant for health care into the bank accounts of businesses owned by the Martin or Desmarais families. A tradition Bob Rae is proud to carry on.