Editor,
Excellent series on the Liberal Party by Frank Dabbs. It resurrected some history and policies I had filed away. While the personalities and events are accurately portrayed, Dabbs throws in comments and opinions that are too biased to let go.
"Nevertheless voters knew where Trudeau stood and why, and could vote for or against his party with clarity."
"They don't know where the liberal party stands today."
Oh yes we do! We know they created and support the long gun registry. We know they signed the Kyoto Accord and believe in man made global warming. We know they consider CO2 a pollutant and want to form an energy policy and tax system based on targeting carbon. We know they believe in official/forced multiculturalism. We know they believe in big government. We know they have abandoned anyone who is not from MTV.
"Who can forget the Rat Pack of liberal opposition MPs who tormented the Mulroney government in parliament."
I can ! Surely this is not a high point in liberal history!
"There is a void opening in the Canadian political heart that the Conservatives do not see, much less address. It is what U.S. President George H. Bush called "the vision thing;" Bush was not a hugger, that is to say he was not comfortable with the part of politics that connected to people's dreams and aspirations . In that respect he is like Preston Manning and Stephen Harper, who also have difficulty with the emotive side of politics." In other words vote with emotion and not with reason. Vote substantive for something like, let's see, hope and change!
Dabbs does a bit of a hit piece on C.D. Howe and his WW2 heroics. The dollar a year men may have gained a foothold on sectors of the Canadian economy after WW2 but there is no doubt that Canada boxed way above its weight class in industrial capacity because of these guys. Howe was a great man and would fit right in with the current Conservative Party. All of the Great Lakes concrete grain silos were constructed by C.D. Howe's engineering/construction firm and he essentially created the forerunner of Trans Canada Pipelines to get western gas to the east.
Frank Dabbs'most recent article about Canada-China connections was very insightful. One point missing was that there was no mention of Dr. Norman Bethune. I recall that during one of the earlier Chinese trade missions to Ontario probably late 70's early 80's, the mission's first request was to visit the birth place of Bethune.
Regards , Ray McHugh, Meaford
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