Iggy Shuffle Demotions For Bob Rae Camp?

Ignatieff deserves kudos for making some changes in his shadow cabinet.  The failure to make any headway in the last session  by those Liberal MPs obsession with political stunts required those changes. The pool of loyalists remaining in his camp to draw from reflects the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I will only comment on a few.

I am somewhat amused none of the media have looked at the changes by Ignatieff for the Fall line up. Bob Rae and his supporters have been demoted? The remaining loyalists in the Ignatieff camp are being asked to step up and help salvage the party and his leadership.

Advice for Shadow Cabinet

Ujjal was unfairly critical of our military, Civil Servants that did not share his view or torture and Omar Khadr

• Delivery of Health  is a provincial file and the Chretien-Martin Liberals flubbed in by downloading billions in cuts in the 1990's. They should not send ten per centers to reserves, try to fear monger over health issues. Their pick will prove disastrous. Chalk River was to be decommissioned in 2000 but the Liberal boondoggle regarding the Maple Three reactors have caused the Isotope problem. Ujjal Dosanj is a mistake. Keith Martin, Kirsty Duncan would have been a better choice.

• Aboriginal Affairs was neglected for decades and then a Haily Mary pass to save the Martin government Liberals pushed a Kelowna Accord. Todd Russel is a good pick from a bad lot. He should look at the progress of cleaning up the mess left behind by both the PC and Liberals. Todd should examine the investments and treaties ratified the CPC have taken over the file. The CPC government has been invested more money in real projects. Todd should drop Canada is a colonial rhetoric.

Mr. Dad's brother is getting more air time!

• House leader has become the sacrificial lamb for the Liberals. I pity any MP taking on John Baird. It won't end well for the Liberals.

• Agriculture has been ignored again by leaving the most nasally whiny Liberal MP they have in his job. This guy relies on props and anonymous letters in Question Period to land cheap shots. (My singing fish would be better than this tool.)

• The young Dauphin to Immigration will be interesting: Jason Kenney will have Justin Trudeau wishing he was a CTV host in short order.

• Natural Resources Denis Coderre is a mistake because he will focus on Quebec mining and lumber interests and the Bloc have that already covered. Denis may still be  upset with the Cauchon - Rae  interference after the leader sided with him. The Liberals have not recovered in Quebec and lost badly in both contests in Quebec. 

Liberals have become an urban party reduced to Toronto-Montreal ridings for the most part. They are busy playing wedge politics with the Democrats over scrapping their boondoggle LGR. Why was Bob Rae or John McCallum by passed over for Ralph Goodale?

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Liberal Party Census Policy Designed To Protect Privacy of Wealthy Canadians

The Liberals are vowing to bring the census battle to the House of Commons in September by tabling a bill to reinstate the long-form census and remove the threat of jail time for not completing a questionnaire.

Another political stunt? When will the games end and real substantive policy debates be discussed by the Liberals?

After promising to not sit on your hands in May 2009, the Ignatieff led Liberals have at least thirty MPs regularly skip votes to prop up the government.

“If you believe, as we in the Liberal party believe, that there is a major role for the federal government in Canadian society and the Canadian economy, then I think the era of tax cuts is over for the foreseeable future,” Mr. McCallum said on Tuesday. He said the Liberals would not raise taxes.  - John McCallum April 20, 2010

The party had become utterly dependent on finance by corporations. Paul Martin had been showered with $12-million to ensure that he became the next leader. Consequently, in 2003, Jean Chrétien introduced the legislation that was to be his final and finest legacy for democracy. Corporate financing was to be all but prohibited. - Tom Kent  August 27, 2010

The Liberal Party is the most dependent on large donations Pundits Guide April 30, 2009  and looking at the amount raised, 40.0% of the Liberal total came from small contributors, as compared with 66.7% of the Conservative amount and 77.7% of the NDP's. 

2010 - The Conservatives took in $4.1 million in donations between April 1 and the end of June, compared to $2.4 million for the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois combined. For the Conservatives it is their best second quarter result since coming to power in 2006, despite months of negative headlines about deficits, Guergis and the G20. The Liberals raised a total of $1.6 million, down from last year's total of $4 million when they actually out-tallied the Conservatives on fundraising.

The only people who would benefit  not shrinking government are wealthy citizens who can afford the fees and increasing costs of regulation. The Gun Registry boondoggle is a perfect example of extra fees introduced by big government on law abiding citizens. The cost of government for Liberals is a necessary evil as our taxes or is it used as a means to control the population and learn private details of their citizens for resale?

One more fee to collect?

Why are the Liberals not interested in treating citizens fairly by keeping the information of the poor, middle class as private as the wealthy?
The donors to the Liberal party that earn in excess of $ 200k per year can afford a $ 500 fine for not complying with the Census, the single mother earning under $ 30k can not.



There is no comparison.

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