- Ignatieff and the Liberals are right.

October 29, 2009 7:57 AM, Bennett's swine politics, Norman Spector
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/spector-vision/bennetts-swine-politics/article1343255/ tab3

It is a question of the chickens coming home to roost. Harper and the Cons have been spending tens of millions of tax payers dollars trying to have the stimulus spending identified with the Con Party. They should have refrained from such partizan activities and focused our money on the H1N1 epidemic. The message on the Go Trains should have been early warning symptoms for H1N1 and what to do, instead of trying to make Toronto voters think that Harper and the Cons are their benefactors. It is not wonder people are upset and concerned. This is just another example of Harper doing everything to grab and hold onto power and Canada be damned.

Harper has poisoned the political environment in Canada to such a degree with his in-your-face, my-way-or-the-highway, sloughing off legitimate criticism with "that left wing incompetent", refusal to cooperate unless forced by the threat of losing power, that in order to have have an effect the Opposition must be very forceful. This is one of those situations.

Even now, with the health of so many Canadians at issue the Con's response is simply to accuse the Liberals of partizan politics, which is, itself, partizan in the extreme. The fact is that no response to any crises is perfect and the idea in a democracy is that we rely on all the people to come forward, each according to their particular abilities. Harper and the Con's are essentially running the country as a totalitarian state and not a democracy.

How about, responding by saying something like "we are looking into these matters, and are continually doing everything we can to improve the way we are handling things and certainly any shortcomings anyone can point out are very welcome".

Oh, and did I mention, Normal Spector is incredibly biased.


Lloyd MacIlquham cicblog.com/comments.html