Estonians organized and were involved in the final Scarborough rally for Conservative leader Stephen Harper, on Friday January 20th.
At the Scarborough Conservatives rally, Friday January 20. From the left Aino Uus, Ruho Paluoja, Pauline Browes, and Shirley MacAllister. Photo: Adu Raudkivi
Professor Ruho Paluoja organized the event, which was also attended by former Progressive Conservative party heavyweights like Senator Marjorie LeBreton, former Toronto party organizer Fred Clark and many others.
Many of the original 'Progressive Conservatives' who at first did not join the 'Conservative' party have now come together. People like former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who initially did not approve of the merger between the National Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives, became involved in the campaign.
The Honourable Pauline Browes, former Minister in PM Brian Mulroney’s cabinet, introduced Harper who addressed Conservative candidates and hundreds of their supporters. Browes helped Estonians a great deal when the late eighties-early nineties push for regaining the nation’s independence was on.
Harper explained the party platform starting with the need for accountability, and economic issues. A significant election issue for Scarborough was law and order. Stephen Harper addressed those concerns at length.
Aino Uus was at the front of the Browes cheering section sitting beside Browes’ sister Shirley MacAllister. Uus was heavily involved in the Browes campaign and organized Eesti Kodu/ Ehatare Estonians to vote.
(Unfortunately, despite the support and efforts of Uus, Paluoja and many others in the Estonian community, Pauline Browes could not unseat the incumbent - Liberal MP John McKay - on election day. This proved to be the pattern in all of the ridings of Metropolitan Toronto, where Liberals and the NDP ruled the day.)
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Peter05 Feb 2006 05:27
It is very scary to read that decadence, corruption and perversion have become Canadian "values". I am proud to have voted for Harper!
Anonymous31 Jan 2006 09:22
Harper and the cpc know it, perhaps you should as well: The federal government is allowed little input over issues that fall into municipal and provincial jurisdiction. It can encourage but not directly affect. The feds can establish say . . . hospital wait times, as was done 12 months ago, but cannot enforce the provinces to implement them. As to 'Canada' voting for the cpc - I'm not sure that Alberta reflects the opinons and values of the entire country. That's where the largest percentage of the pop vote for the cpc came from. Check your facts and come back later.
Either way, it doesn't change the fact that Pauline Browse is so out-of-touch that she lost her own ward. She should stick to her pet projects and leave running the country to those with real ideas and visions.
to29 Jan 2006 15:26
we have different opinions on ' platforms of substance and strong records' ... to me a leader that avoids paying tax in his own country, represents a party that steals money from taxpayers for its own purposes, does nothing to reduce criminal activity in urban centers, ignores its military, does nothing to solve any health or urban issues (it had 12 years), and has as its sole platform fear mongering via 'what if' .... does not get my vote, nor the vote of most canadians