30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965


One day early to remember one of the Great's.
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill


Sir John Dinner

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Sir John A. Macdonald’s Birthday Celebration

Friday, January 30, 2009 Guelph Place Banquet Hall492 Michener Road Guelph

The evening of Friday January 30th is rapidly approaching, so plan on booking your tickets or table for Guelph’s annual Sir John A Dinner now! We’re offering a special rate for this year, just $40 for members ($60 for non-members) for this great event! It’s going to be an exciting week in Canadian politics, certainly one for the history books. So plan on closing off the week of January 30th with fellow Conservatives right here in Guelph over dinner and a thought provoking speaker!For this year’s Sir John A MacDonald dinner, we’re pleased to announce that our speaker will be CFBR Bill Carroll! Known for his no nonsense speaking and interview style, Bill Carroll is one of the best known radio personalities in the GTA. He’s sure to have something interesting to say about the week’s events!

To reserve your tickets, please call Shaylene at 519.822.1337. If you have any questions regarding the event, please feel free to e-mail, to membership@guelphcp.ca. Please also feel free to let fellow Conservative supporters in and around town about this great event!

We look forward to seeing you there!

The new Great Depression

I’ve been thinking recently on the recession we are in and its lasting consequences on Canada.

This is/will be unlike another down turn we’ve ever experienced.

This is the continued deindustrialization of Canada; it is a trend that we will not be coming back from, ever.

All the job loses we are experiencing will stay gone; the manufacturers who have gone to the States, to Mexico, to Brazil, to China or to India are never coming back. Companies are not going to close a plant in China and move production to Canada. Sorry, but it’s just not going to happen.

We are in a situation where any stimulus package will do little to heal our economy. We are treating the symptoms and not the disease. If we do not change the path we are heading down, Canada will be essentially a third world country in the near future. I’m not being overly dramatic.

We are basically irrelevant to the world economy, we are just so small in scale. Many developing countries are blowing right by us in all economic scales.

We need to be more productive, more efficient, create R & D and be willing to take risks, and we are doing none of the above right now.

Welcome to a new great depression.