It is TIME For a Canadian Tea Party!

"Canadian Tea Party" can refer to two main things: a Canadian rock band formed in 1990 known for its blues-rock and world music fusion, or a political movement that some Canadians hoped would gain more traction in Canada by emulating American conservative grassroots movements like the American Tea Party Movement. It's important to distinguish between these two, as there is no large, unified Canadian Tea Party movement like the one in the United States, though some Canadian groups share similar fiscal conservative ideals. That is on the threshold of now becoming a REALITY as several provinces have had enough of Ottawa's "Taxation Without Representation" tyranny.

"Taxation without representation" is a slogan describing the grievance of a populace being taxed by a government in which they have no elected representatives, a principle that fueled the American Revolution. The concept is rooted in the Magna Carta's emphasis on consent for taxation and was central to the American colonists' protests against British taxes like the Stamp Act, arguing that only legislatures with direct representation could legally tax them. The phrase remains relevant today, notably in Washington, D.C., where residents pay federal taxes but lack full voting representation in Congress.

On the night of December 16, 1773, a party of Bostonians boarded three British vessels and dumped over three hundred chests of tea into Boston Harbor. In addition to objecting to taxation without representation, the participants were also protesting the Tea Act of 1773, which forced them to pay a tax on top of the monopoly prices set by the East India Company and benefitted the family of the royal governor of Massachusetts. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of this harbinger of the Revolution, Benjamin Carp, professor of history at Brooklyn College, discusses the event by examining the actions of those who carried out the raid in the context of the global story of British interests in India, North America and the Caribbean.

From: Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America | Benjamin Carp

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