The Federal Conservative Party had a policy convention recently and according to the Globe and Mail, they are shifting further right – as their Masters within the Council for National Policy desire -.
 Read the article by Bill Curry – Globe and Mail – here

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OTTAWA — Grassroots Conservatives are urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to act on long-standing demands of the Canadian right, such as less government and more health-care privatization, as they head into the party’s second-ever policy convention next weekend in Winnipeg.

Resolutions from Conservatives across the country have been whittled down to a few dozen that will be up for debate on the convention floor.

The final list includes demands that, if adopted, could challenge Mr. Harper’s efforts to soften the party’s image among those who aren’t traditional Conservatives.

“I think people are becoming impatient and they want to see some action. They want to see this government deliver a real, small c, conservative agenda,” said Gerry Nicholls, a conservative commentator with the Democracy Institute.

Mr. Nicholls said he expects traditional conservatives will be more vocal in their demands now that the party has two consecutive victories under its belt. He predicted resistance to Mr. Harper’s view that conservative policies must be adopted slowly so as not to alienate Canadian voters.

That tension may surface at the convention over several issues, including extra legal penalties for individuals who commit violence against a pregnant woman. The item is up for debate in spite of the fact that Mr. Harper distanced himself from the idea just days before the last election. His move blunted criticism that the measure, advocated at the time through a Conservative private member’s bill, could criminalize abortion indirectly.

The last time Conservatives gathered to vote on policy in 2005, Mr. Harper was spotted backstage kicking a chair in frustration as his young party threatened to unravel. In the end, Tories emerged united with a platform that sidelined thorny issues such as abortion and capital punishment.

Don Plett, the president of the party’s national council, said he expects lots of lively debate but pointed out the majority of the resolutions simply update policy to reflect the government’s decisions.

“Much of what we have there [in resolutions are] things that we have campaigned on in the past and the Conservative government has in fact implemented,” said Mr. Plett, who helped merge the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance in 2003.

Conservative Party spokesman Ryan Sparrow played down the potential impact of the convention resolutions on government decisions.

“They’re just like any other consultation you would have with any stakeholder group,” he said, confirming the government will not be bound by the Winnipeg decisions.

Neither Mr. Plett nor Mr. Sparrow would comment on specific resolutions.

Delegates from Calgary are proposing 10-year, renewable term limits for Supreme Court judges and a reaffirmation of Parliament’s power to ignore the court’s rulings through the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution.

The two resolutions relating to the Supreme Court fit with long-standing concerns expressed within the party over the power of the courts to change Canadian law.

The proposal to limit Supreme Court justices to renewable 10-year terms is among the few major new ideas to be discussed at next weekend’s convention.

But the debate over the Supreme Court will be largely symbolic, given that term limits can’t be imposed without changing the Constitution, said University of Alberta law Professor Joanna Harrington.

Liberal MP Marlene Jennings said the proposal would also politicize the judiciary, as they would be dependent on government for renewals.

“It would cast a pall over their independence,” she said.

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Resolutions up for debate

Supreme Court judges Supreme Court of Canada judges should serve 10-year renewable terms.

Health care Provinces should be encouraged “to further experiment with different means of delivering universal health care utilizing both the public and private health sectors.”

Auto emissions Canada should match California’s more stringent standards.

Military parents If they die while serving Canada, their children should be given free tuition to post secondary institutions.

Human Rights Commission The Canadian commission’s authority to investigate complaints related to hate messages should be removed.

Streamlining The government should “streamline government services and eliminate waste, unnecessary overlap and duplication between the levels of government.”

Free votes Replace current party policy that all votes, other than the budget and main estimates, are free votes, with the policy that a Conservative government will make “most votes free.”

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- Open the door to softening the Canadian Public towards making abortions illegal in Canada

- Privatization of Health Care

- Change the Constitution so that Supreme Court will not be able to overrule the Conservative Government (they intend to rid our Constitution of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms)

- Rid all powers from the Human Rights Commission so that they exist purely for show

  Wake-up Canada.