Comments on: Michael Ignatieff Starts To Look Like a Leader

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:30:19 +0000

I agree that in some ways, he represents the “status quo”.

But who else is there???

By: paul mcarthur

paul mcarthur — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:01:59 +0000

Thanks to the two of you for keeping me appraised of the domestic political scene. I appreciate it. I wonder with Craig Murray recently becoming more vocal about the torture in Uzbekistan, and the toothless inquiry into the Iraq war across the pond and this recent stand for truth in Canada whether we may be entering a period in which politicians realize they have to admit some of the ugly truths to maintain a slight veneer of respectability to the masses who can’t perceive the depths of the ugliness of the full truth? It, combined with the backlash of the blind, ignorant racists like the commenter here from the Ottawa Citizen article -”What a load of crap,it seems most of the comments are just a load of liberal

crap.So they turn these murderas of women and children not to mention

the troops over to the Afghans its where they should go.”-

should be enough to allow the deeper truths to stay hidden and the relative status quo to persevere and (though I did like his quoted words in Parliament) Michael Ignatieff certainly represents, in the larger picture – the status quo.

By: lord anthony

lord anthony — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:37:34 +0000

Both of you are kinder than the truth, which is that MacKay sets a creepy new low in the horrible possibilities of our electoral system.

It is likely before he is prodded into ignominy he will become a sacrificial anode as Harper’s regime collapses.

To which I can only add:

burn baby burn

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:13:46 +0000

Yes.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay has a tendency to change ground without apology, or even a blush. As a result, he suffers what might be charitably called a trust deficit — and it pre-dates this week’s unpleasantness over Afghan detainees.

The crux of this whole matter is the coverup; the lying; the willingness to sacrifice honour on the altar of power.

There’s an excellent article on MacKay here…

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/MacKay+tangled/2328007/story.html

By: lord anthony

lord anthony — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:07:33 +0000

A curious situation indeed. We are lurching towards an election with a no-brainer outcome.

Out with Harper and his cabal, big gains for Bloc and NDP.
I could live with that.

Mainstream voters are reluctant to give the Libs blank cheques and blind trust any more, after the sponsorship deal.
We never even found out who authorised signing those cheques, I still think Paul Martin “walked” on that one instead of facing criminal charges.

In mitigation, he demolished our deficit, which we now have back in abundance.

But all of that, in the end….. was only money, sucking, licking and backscratching, endemic political malfeasance which will never be eradicated. Disgusting, but to be expected in Ottawa or any other parliament.
What are friends if they don’t look after each other, eh.

But today’s moral crisis in Canada is far more worrying, to the point of dumping the grotesque Conservative baby with the bathwater, just to be on the safe side.
We are not torturers, nor will we stand for sleazy covering-up in high elected office.

I think Canadian voters are heading that way.

And I’m surprised there has been no focus yet on our uniforms over there. They’re the the smoking guns in Colvingate.

What was the accountability tipping-point in Somalia?