Calling Liberals
Any country that is willing to surrender economic levers inevitably yields levers politically and
surrenders a large chunk of its ability to remain a sovereign nation. I don't believe our
future depends on our yielding those economic levers of sovereignty to become a junior partner
in Fortress North America, to the United States."
--The Right Honourable John Turner, Liberal Party leader on "Free Trade", October 12, 1988
John Turner championed Canadian cultural, economic, and political sovereignty in the 1988
"Free Trade" election, as a former Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the federal Liberal
Party. Canadian Liberals had realized since the Sir Wilfrid Laurier government, that "free trade"
threatened the independence of Canada from a stated American "manifest destiny".
Jean Chrétien who succeeded John Turner as the Leader of the Liberal Party, abandoned the
federal Liberal Party's systematic safeguarding of Canadian independence. Canada's
independence had been successfully championed by Liberal Prime Ministers who also included
Mackenzie King, Lester B. Pearson, who had won the Nobel Peace Prize, and Pierre Elliot
Trudeau. The abandoning of the systematic Liberal defence of Canadian independence has
resulted in the undermining of Canada's social fabric under the ascending dominance of neo-
conservative "Social Darwinistic" pressures associated with crass American materialism.
An invitation of disenfranchised federal Liberals
We welcome participation by disenfranchised federal Liberals in the progressive evolution of
Cosmopolitan. Cosmopolitan welcomes Liberals who seek to re-galvanize the national spirit of
a patriotic Canadian Liberalism, that appears to have been abandoned by elite politics.
