Still Flailing Away?
Michael Ignatieff is trying the patience of staunch Liberals who felt they finally caught a winner in his ascension to the leadership, sans democratic orthodoxy in attainment. His potential as a winner was worth bypassing the usual dreary process of a leadership election procedure. Truly peculiar how everything has gone downhill for the Liberals since that event. They exchanged one failure for yet another. The first one was at least honest, if inept. This one's statements beg credulity and his bumbling performances have brought discredit to the party, if anything.
In fact, not much truly has changed from the time Stephane Dion was leader to the present, with Michael Ignatieff leading the Liberals in constant challenges to the record of the Conservative government. Mr. Dion too railed against the government's incompetence on the economy, the environment, international affairs, natural resources and health care. And threatened repeatedly to bring down the government. It's like an excruciatingly bad, broken record; Mr. Ignatieff appears to have carefully studied Mr. Dion's discredited performance and intentionally repeats it, as though addicted to self-destruction.
All the claims of government ineptitude are contradicted by reality. And the other reality is that the Liberals, if they were now back in the position of government, would be performing in much the same manner. But not quite as successfully, as virtuously, and as commandingly. This is the opinion of the majority of Canadians, as it happens. In all the indices: health care, taxes, national unity, environment and the economy, the Conservatives have an edge on public opinion, significantly over the Liberals.
And the fact is, Canadians have reason to be proud of this government in its refreshingly new, candid and principled stand in world affairs and within the halls of the United Nations. There are some problems internally that should receive more attention, and might be resolved that the Conservatives have yet to pay due diligence to, and they may not at all, more's the pity.
But then, the Liberals never did, either.
In fact, not much truly has changed from the time Stephane Dion was leader to the present, with Michael Ignatieff leading the Liberals in constant challenges to the record of the Conservative government. Mr. Dion too railed against the government's incompetence on the economy, the environment, international affairs, natural resources and health care. And threatened repeatedly to bring down the government. It's like an excruciatingly bad, broken record; Mr. Ignatieff appears to have carefully studied Mr. Dion's discredited performance and intentionally repeats it, as though addicted to self-destruction.
All the claims of government ineptitude are contradicted by reality. And the other reality is that the Liberals, if they were now back in the position of government, would be performing in much the same manner. But not quite as successfully, as virtuously, and as commandingly. This is the opinion of the majority of Canadians, as it happens. In all the indices: health care, taxes, national unity, environment and the economy, the Conservatives have an edge on public opinion, significantly over the Liberals.
And the fact is, Canadians have reason to be proud of this government in its refreshingly new, candid and principled stand in world affairs and within the halls of the United Nations. There are some problems internally that should receive more attention, and might be resolved that the Conservatives have yet to pay due diligence to, and they may not at all, more's the pity.
But then, the Liberals never did, either.
posted by Pieface | 7:21 PM
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