Posted on 08/08/07
Political extremists hurt economic debate
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Action Party (CAP) got 0.04 per cent of the popular vote (with 36 candidates) in the 2006 federal election, which speaks well for the country.Founded by former Liberal defence minister Paul Hellyer, now led by Vancouver lawyer Connie Fogal, the party has never since equalled its inaugural campaign in 1997: 0.13 per cent of the popular vote (with 58 candidates). It is Canada's right-wing nationalist party - which, as it happens, makes it indistinguishable from Canada's left-wing nationalist party, the NDP. Nowhere is this more evident than in the respective histrionics of the Canadian right and the Canadian left, as together they mobilize for Montebello, Que.
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