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He has made the point that sometimes tax reforms such as the GST, introduced by former prime minister Brian Mulroney are unpopular, but necessary.
Still, this was a very public face-to-face encounter with his former Liberal adversary. And this has been a very bad week for PC Leader Tim Hudak. who often let his fig leaf drop to reveal his naked ambition when Tory was PC leader.
McGuinty has his game face on.”
But, as my colleague Chris would be the first to point out, a week is a lifetime in politics. We Ontario Liberals take our PC opponents very seriously – they are formidable adversaries (Rocco Rossi notwithstanding).
Still, not a bad week. We intend to work hard to ensure that Hudak has a few more bad weeks.
…on taxation policy.
And, as Dalton McGuinty points out in the linked Star story, so too do Jim Flaherty, John Baird and Tony Clement – all senior ministers within Stephen Harper’s government. They said the HST was the way to go, too. So did other PC giants, like Bob Runciman.
The story is below. I can’t wait to see how Rocco Rossi is going to fix this little communications problem! As he always liked to remind us, he could fix anything!
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“And you know what, it took some courage to do it,” he said.
Middle son and I listened to this story on CBC radio this morning with delight.
Not only did Leonard Nickelray survive – he survived, he told the media, while he was listening to Pennywise and Rancid!
(Smart middle son observation: “Dad, it sounds like listening to punk rock loud was the reason he almost got killed.” I told him I wasn’t interested in a contrarian son.)
Anyway, to equip you, too, with supernatural powers, and the ability to withstand collisions with speeding locomotives, here’s Pennywise with (naturally) ‘Knocked Down.’
We give you Cheryl Gallant.
She’s always been a loon. She is a loon now. She always will be a loon.
Why is anyone surprised?
Ignatieff shows some leadership. Good.
The other day, Chantal Hebert wrote that Harper’s secret perimeter deal would split Liberals. With the greatest of respect, she’s flat wrong. Every Liberal I have spoken to sees this pact as a potential threat to our sovereignty – whether they admire Barack Obama or not. (And I do.)
John Manley and Frank McKenna – who will almost certainly be trotted out to defend this thing – are not in the mainstream of the Liberal Party anymore. They’re smart fellows. But whatever they have to say about the secret deal is of no force and effect with any Grit I know. In fact, it will propel many Liberals in the opposite direction.
What we know about the perimeter deal so far frankly stinks. In the main, the secret agreement seems to involve handing over personal information about Canadians to the Americans, in exchange for illusory customs benefits. If the Reformatories want to fight an election over their desire to integrate Canada with the United States, I welcome that. They’d lose.
Michael Ignatieff, increasingly, doesn’t sound afraid of that prospect either: