Credibility Gap
Sorry for the delay… or “gap” if you will, in posting. Busy times! But, as the Harper gov’t slides ever further into ridiculousness… I’m back, baby!
Jesse
Supporters
At the Liberal Convention last weekend, the party passed a motion adding “supporters” as a class of Liberals, and allowing those Supporters to vote in their ridings for the next…
Oldie But a Goodie
Reading “White House Ghosts”, and a great chunk from Eisenhower: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those…
Kenney’s Religious War
With the news that Jason Kenney is banning veiled women from taking citizenship oaths, I wanted to go on record here. Canadians have the right to religious freedom. Unless there…
Conmunications and Health Care
On a week when both Preston Manning (“Manning says polarized debate has stalled concrete actions — including a “two-track” approach that would allow private insurance in a universal system. Today’s…
"Conservatives" and Immigration
Call me old fashioned, but when five months after winning office you impose a two-year moratorium on family reunification, I call that:A) Lying. Although unlike with their intentions to negotiate…
Cullen’s Primaries
I want to encourage you to read, but not necessarily endorse, this article from Far and Wide arguing that Nathan Cullen's proposal that in non-Conservative-held ridings the Liberal, NDP, and…
Liberal Party Renewal Proposal I
Since in my last post I said I'd try to come up with some ideas for changes to the Liberal Party, let's get started (note that the "I" in the…
Liberal Party Governance
The Liberal Party of Canada has a convention in January. I'm hearing lots of chatter about "who's running for President" and at least a little bit about who's running for…
Hudak Totally Recovers From His "Foreign Workers" Gaffe
I couldn't not blog this: Question: Why do you keep calling immigrants foreign workers?Answer: Oh, I’m not. Dalton McGuinty’s plan, and Greg Sorbrara was on the radio about it yesterday,…
Layton
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Jack dedicated his life to public service, not for power, but to try to push things in a direction he believed in, and that's a beautiful legacy.
Maybe I’m Not Reading The Right Stuff…
... But, is anyone making the argument that it's a terrible idea to fire a bunch of public servants right now because those public servants will be out of a…
Ask Your Mom or Ask Your Dad
A quick hit on Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak on pot, with the news that he's "gotten high", presumably on some pretty "fly doobies" in his distant past (he's only…
Tea Time Followup
Helpfully, Brampton-Springdale PC candidate Pam Hundal (part of the protest in my previous post) has now tweeted that the billion dollars the Ontario Liberals invested into Brampton healthcare services was…
Tea Party Alive and Well in the 905
Well, this is extremely disturbing:First, Ontario Provincial PCs (note that I'm this close to starting to refuse to call them "Progressive", at least until they bring back a live one…
Dissent
I return again today to the topic of tolerating dissent. Here's what @rosiebarton tweeted today that set me off: I'm listening to the Liberal scrums. These people have a LONG…
Leadership
Having argued in my last post that we should avoid obsessing on leadership politics over philosophy and organizing, there's a reason this post is about leadership. I'm not going to…
Adults Are Listening
In 2005, Andrew Potter wrote (in what happened to be a piece discussing pitfalls Michael Ignatieff might face as Liberal Leader) that "Canadians are incapable of having an adult discussion".…
Come Back
Thanks to everyone who read my last piece, by the way (even if you didn't leave comments). Here's what I have to add today. The way for the Liberal Party…
Where I Am Now
Here's what I'm thinking right now about the election that just was, and the future. If I continue to blog going forward, I'll probably try to expand and improve on…