tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692488549699658893.post2525557562521576289..comments2024-02-06T04:31:58.144-05:00Comments on Right In Niagara: Bob Rae tries to sanitize Iggy's coalition complicityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692488549699658893.post-43276464012195878132012-03-14T01:10:28.848-04:002012-03-14T01:10:28.848-04:00John Duffy (PM Paul Martin's former advisor), ...John Duffy (PM Paul Martin's former advisor), in the Mar.13, 2012 National Post (pg. A15) wrote that the Liberals<br /><br />"have raised issues of process and style - such as Afghan prisoner treatment and the long form census - at times generating a genuine upswing.<br />Alternatively, a big-idea policy move was offered in Stéphane Dion's Green Shift, before inadequate stimulation of public demand, a poor selling effort, and the lack of a credible salesman turned a potential game-changing asset into an election liability. <br />In the most spectacular episode, the freshly defeated Liberals in 2008 sought to by-pass the election mechanism entirely and plunged into a coalition arrangement with the NDP and Bloc Québécois. The country was wholly unprepared for this development. <br />It turned out the Liberals were as well, and they essentially disowned the project halfway through its execution."<br />*<br />So, there ya go - even a top ranking Grit CLEARLY STATED that the Liberals HAD a coalition deal with the Bloc!<br />Funny thing is, the very same Post story was accompanied by a photo of coalition-denier Bob Rae!!R.Bobakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00295185763197975948noreply@blogger.com