Ho, Ho, Ho!
There they are, the Jolly Green Liberals, side by side in blessed harmony. Stephane Dion is getting set, getting ready, getting go! Not yet, though. Just practising. Just kind of setting up, setting the stage, as it were. He's got his team on board now, and they're chomping at the bit, friendly to beat the band. Teamwork, that's what it will take, and teamwork they promise.
From Michael Ignatieff, first at the gate, to Bob Rae, Scott Brison, Gerard Kennedy and Martha Hall Findlay, they're pals, all. What? Right. Bob Rae, Gerard Kennedy and Martha Hall Findlay are part of the eager-beaver team, but they're not Members of Parliament. Never have they yet run for office at the federal level as Liberals. Details, details. They're still hot to go.
Under the leadership, needless to say, of Stephane Dion, that come-from-behind whizz. He said it, said he needs a 'dream team' and there you go, he dreamed just such a team into reality. No, no hard feelings, none at all. Nothing personal, just all pulling together for the Old Party. Mr. Dion plans to pull it out of its sadly decrepit state.
This is the guy vaunted for his sense of honour, decency and values, his high intellect. I'm having problems squaring all those superlatives of character with what I've seen just of late. Like all the dire charges leveled against the (ugh) New Government of Canada (ugh the ridiculous nomenclature), when that selfsame government is proving itself very adept, very worthy, most admirable.
In fact, this nonsense about the Conservative-led government of Stephen Harper having made "ideological cuts" resulting in a loss of student aid to higher education kind of puts things into perspective. Reflecting rather questionably on the honourable intentions of said new leader of the Liberals' own pathetic record on the environment, while casting aspersions of horror at the attitude of the Harper government.
Aha! it would appear that budget documents demonstrate the Conservative government is spending more this year on non-repayable student-aid packages than the previous government. The Canada Graduation Scholarships and Canada Access Grants created for low-income students to ensure fewer crippling loans post-graduation hasn't deteriorated under the Conservatives at all, it would seem, despite statements to the contrary from Stephane Dion.
Here's how it worked: immediately pre-election, the then-Liberal government promised an election-worthy programme of enriched improvements to Canada's student financial assistance program through to 2011. Promised, get it? On the eve of an election, get it? Although the Liberals had passed a budget a few months earlier with five-year spending projections, the government did not include these initiatives at the time.
Only later, as election enticements. How's that for creativity, to accuse the Conservative government of not honouring an election-eve pledge by the Liberals? Wot a team...go for it!
From Michael Ignatieff, first at the gate, to Bob Rae, Scott Brison, Gerard Kennedy and Martha Hall Findlay, they're pals, all. What? Right. Bob Rae, Gerard Kennedy and Martha Hall Findlay are part of the eager-beaver team, but they're not Members of Parliament. Never have they yet run for office at the federal level as Liberals. Details, details. They're still hot to go.
Under the leadership, needless to say, of Stephane Dion, that come-from-behind whizz. He said it, said he needs a 'dream team' and there you go, he dreamed just such a team into reality. No, no hard feelings, none at all. Nothing personal, just all pulling together for the Old Party. Mr. Dion plans to pull it out of its sadly decrepit state.
This is the guy vaunted for his sense of honour, decency and values, his high intellect. I'm having problems squaring all those superlatives of character with what I've seen just of late. Like all the dire charges leveled against the (ugh) New Government of Canada (ugh the ridiculous nomenclature), when that selfsame government is proving itself very adept, very worthy, most admirable.
In fact, this nonsense about the Conservative-led government of Stephen Harper having made "ideological cuts" resulting in a loss of student aid to higher education kind of puts things into perspective. Reflecting rather questionably on the honourable intentions of said new leader of the Liberals' own pathetic record on the environment, while casting aspersions of horror at the attitude of the Harper government.
Aha! it would appear that budget documents demonstrate the Conservative government is spending more this year on non-repayable student-aid packages than the previous government. The Canada Graduation Scholarships and Canada Access Grants created for low-income students to ensure fewer crippling loans post-graduation hasn't deteriorated under the Conservatives at all, it would seem, despite statements to the contrary from Stephane Dion.
Here's how it worked: immediately pre-election, the then-Liberal government promised an election-worthy programme of enriched improvements to Canada's student financial assistance program through to 2011. Promised, get it? On the eve of an election, get it? Although the Liberals had passed a budget a few months earlier with five-year spending projections, the government did not include these initiatives at the time.
Only later, as election enticements. How's that for creativity, to accuse the Conservative government of not honouring an election-eve pledge by the Liberals? Wot a team...go for it!
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