Dirty Little Secret
A Liberal policy paper by Tom Axworthy obtained by the National Post is a smidge less than nice when it comes to talking about key Liberal beliefs
Liberalism’s dirty secret [and it is not so secret these days] is that government doesn’t seem to work well much of the time,” he says, citing such examples as the 800,000 potential immigrants waiting for their applications to be processed; massive cost overruns at the gun registry; lengthy procurement delays for military equipment; poor water quality on aboriginal reserves; and the Jean Chretien Pledge to Africa Act, which promised to produce generic drugs to help fight AIDS but has yet to export a single pill.
I don’t think it’s so much an indictment of Liberalism so much as it is Cretien and Martin.
And regarding Stephen Harper’s Quebec nationhood motion earlier this week
We are being drawn willy-nilly into the dead end of constitutional negotiations…. In 2006, we are back to the future. Once again, though more wearily, Liberals should take up the defence of One Canada against the siren song of deux nations.
It’s hard to be pissed off at anyone who uses the words “willy nilly” in a sentence. Oddly, he seems to be taking a defiantly federalist stance on the issue. But it’s too little too late it seems. I do agree with him that potentially the issue could open a constitutional can of worms.