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Posted by Al Gordon on 10:32:20 2022/04/14
In Reply to: What does it mean to be a liberal in Canada today? posted by Don Dagenais
You're right, Don. Sometimes being a Liberal in Canada looks like having only one goal - getting re-elected regardless of the moral cost.
Carolyn Parrish, Liberal MP for Mississauga-Erindale, has no concern for the violence she may be fomenting or for the terror that feeds off her kind of endorsement. All she cares about is a voting block, and she believes these kinds of abhorrent statements will buy those votes.
Similar motives may be ascribed to Pat O'Brian, Liberal MP for London-Fanshawe, when he accuses Israel of creating concentration camps by building a protective barrier, but has nothing to say about decades of terrorism directed against a democratic ally. Is he selling his soul for the same unifying Liberal goal?
Even in a democracy -- especially in a democracy -- it is the duty of elected politicians to lead not to pander.
Al
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