- Harper Are You Sure Fantino Is Worth The Risk in Cabinet, It Looks Like Fantino Will Have Sufficiently Exposed Himself By The Next Election

Posted: 11:08 AM on December 4, 2010
Fantino lashes out at ‘desperate’ Liberals,
Jane Taber’s Ottawa, Globe and Mail, December 3, 2010
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/fantino-lashes-out-at-desperate-liberals/article1824943/

Wait a second, here . . .

Didn't I read:

"Fantino dismissed Trudeau's criticism as, 'promoting the hug-a-thug philosophy.'" (Winnipeg Free Press, 2 Dec)

(That sounds a lot like what Harper, MacKay, and the Con's used to say when someone would raise the issue of human rights abuses in Afghanistan - something amounting to 'Taliban Lovers', if I recall.)

That sure sounded like it was a recent, post by-election, and quoted, statement by Fantino.

This article seems to give the impression that this issue of the significance and importance of the Charter assigned by Fantino is some kind of 'reading-in' by Trudeau from a long past book.

There is a difference.

The thing I am quite amazed about is just how quickly one can see, once Fantino does open his mouth, just how much Fantino fits in with Harper and the rest of the Con's. I am not in the least surprised that Harper might have put him under a gag order during the by-election.

Fantino suggests that the Liberals approaching him to run for the Liberals and then exposing him for what he is is somehow hypocritical.

However, I have very little doubt that Ignatieff once he spoke with Fantino uno-e-uno very quickly determined that Fantino was not moderate, middle of the road, but quite extreme right-wing in his political view and obviously not Liberal material - vis.:

"The Grits confirmed they had spoken to Mr. Fantino but said discussions did not go very far. “Early on, before Maurizio [Bevilacqua, the former Liberal MP in the riding] formally resigned, we spoke to him,” a senior Ignatieff official told The Globe on Thursday night. “But nothing ever gelled on either side. We didn't like him, and he didn't like us. So we both moved on. " (Taber, 26 Nov.'10)

Michael, you got that right (morally, of course).


Fantino: Upholding the Charter of Rights = "promoting the hug-a-thug philosophy."

Talk about being in the right party (and here 'right' does not mean morally, but extreme end of the political spectrum).
Why doesn't Fantino refer to all those innocent citizens who have been accused and convicted of grievous crimes they did not commit but have been and are being forced to spend long terms in jail.

In a tolerant society citizens place a high premium on freedom, civil rights and innocent people not being wrongly accused and convicted. The opposite being a police state.

It is only when society slides down the slippery slope to the extreme that these civil and human rights values get demonized and marginalized.

'Desperate Liberals' ??? - looks like Fantino will have sufficiently exposed himself, every time he opens his mouth, by the next election.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html