Reform Party: Middle Class Idiocy ---------------------------------- "Reformers, we are on the way to a new Canada. Tonight the political landscape of Canada has been significantly altered." So crowed Reform Party leader Preston Manning on election night. Can 52 white, middle-aged, plaid jacket wearing, small town used car dealers re-make the world in their own image? What adventures will befall them when they start flapping their gums for the public record? Election Cabaret (voice-over spoof of '93 Canadian election) Preston Manning says: "I've spoken to every unilingual, white pensioner in Canada and they say they want a new Canada." Know Them By Their Words (the real thing) ------------------------ "If you're a woman, coloured and a lesbian, you're laughing all the way to the bank." Colyne Gibbons, Reform candidate in Thunder Bay-Atikokan ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "They also happen to be very heavy in the drug scene in Toronto. They're working and not producing." Keith Radatz, Reform candidate in Kamloops, BC, referring to non-whites in Toronto ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are derivative of white European culture, this is our identity. Immigration should not be allowed to destroy it with excessive numbers of Asians and Blacks...Canada as we know it would disappear." Rex Welbourn, former vice-president of the Peterborough Reform Party executive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gone are the days of catering to radical women's groups, minority groups etc. Gone are the days of protecting these and other parasites of society." John Tillman, a Nova Scotia Reform Party official after the election. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I feel the time has come for white Anglo-Saxons to get involved." "Immigration has to be controlled...I think we have to have immigrants, and people that are assets to Canada are a nice thing. But they can't be buying jobs to come here...We're destroying ourselves hourly...and these people coming from another country, one evil is just as bad as another. "You have a $150,000 guy coming here to buy a citizenship to Canada to create a job, fine, he's bringing something. But what is he bringing? Death and destruction to the people." "I feel we have lost control of our country, it seems to be predominantly Jewish people who run the country." Reform Party candidate, John Beck, York Centre, just before York University students in Toronto exposed this bigot and Preston Manning was forced to turf him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It was quite obvious who I was and what I stood for because of the conversations that we had and that sort of thing...It was only when the newspaper articles came out that they booted us out." Wolfgang Droege, leader of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front, who served as security at several Toronto area Reform rallies over the last few years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "You know, we are letting in too many people from the Third World, the low Blacks, the low Hispanics. They're going to take over the province." Reform Party official Alice White. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Gairdner, author of The Trouble With Canada, a best-seller at Reform Party rallies. Chapter Titles: "The Silent Destruction of English Canada: Multiculturalism, Bilingualism and Immigration." "The Great Welfare Rip-Off: Soaking Everyone, to Pay Everyone" "Foreign Aid: Burning Canadian Money" "Radical Feminism: The Destruction of Traditional Society" "Medical Mediocrity: Canada's Sick Health-Care System." Quotes: On immigration. "I would have to put the cultural comfort zone somwhere about 15 per cent. Whenever an invading culture reaches about this percentage of the total, the majority gets restless." "...Imagine that only people completely alien to our culture, language, religion and customs (the Chinese, say) are applying to enter Canada. Theoretically, in a sufficient number of years they could dominate every profession in Canada. In 250 years we could be a Chinese nation. If that's what we want, then let's get on with it. But if it's not, then let's say so and take steps to ensure it doesn't happen." "Immigrants to Canada should be instructed in the core heritage and culture of this nation, which is Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, and Anglo-European. And they should be expected to assimilate to that culture. This does not mean losing their own, which they are free to promote and protect, using their own resources, if they so desire. But it does mean their own culture is secondary."