150th Entry at I Shaved My Head When Robert Stanfield Died? I Just Passed Strongbad's Email Total? I think I'll Celebrate with that Promised Analysis of Stanfield's 1971 Speech to the Empire Club:

Behold, the wisdom of Red Toryism!

Stanfield on the Economy:

"I think we can sum up the economic challenge that faces us in one question. What is the direction in which our economy must go if it is to provide our workers with jobs, our children with opportunities and our people with an acceptable standard of living? That is the fundamental question we must answer. "

Yes! He goes on to say that economic growth is a means to this end. Nothing about competing with emerging market, paradigm, or other assorted BS. People gotta eat and we gotta get 'em food. Of course that'd be Alvin Hamilton's speaking style but you get the drift.

Stanfield on the 'Special Relationship'

In the past, we have been cushioned against the full impact of United States trading decisions. It was assumed in Ottawa that our two countries were involved in a very special relationship. And Washington very often acted as though this were the case. So, even though we occasionally complained that we were being taken for granted, we lived with the comfortable feeling that, regardless of what else might happen, the United States would always consider our interests as well as its own.

Sure, deal with the Americans, but remember the difference between neighbours and family. There is no 'special relationship,' only exigencies of geography.

Stanfield on the state:

Big government will not disappear. That is obvious. But there must be a realization that the purpose of any government, large or small, must be to serve the people, not to serve itself.

Libertarians and neo-classicalists who desire to have the state wound down betray conservative traditions. They are right wing, not conservative.

Finally, without accompanying commentary from me: Stanfield on Canadian Nationalism:

It has been said that what matters most are a people's knowledge that they have done great things in the past and their hope to do greater in the future. We in Canada have accomplished great things in knitting together half a continent. And we are capable of doing much more. We have a common destiny, and our challenge is to fulfill that destiny.
That is what Canadian nationalism means to me. And in that sense I am proud to be a Canadian nationalist.