The 2009 liberals are an infection. And it’s growing.
The infection, as accurately described by the toronto Star, is causing problems for Canada’s democracy. Too much in-fighting, too much not really deciding on exactly who they are and what they represent, and not enough–rather, absolutely none–of the alternate government Canadians are supposed to be seeing from the other side of the house. One could argue the same about the NDP, except they’ve been being quiet about not providing an alternate government so we’ll leave them alone for now.
You need look no farther than this past weekend’s surprise, when liberal senators put the breaks on a bill to toughen up on sentencing for criminals, to see examples of that. And now, with Bob Rae lashing out to quickly slam a lid on any speculation he may or may not have had anything to do with the internal scuffle, it only ends up just being compounded. Stephen Harper was commended for being able to unite the right and bring it to a minority government for the past 4 years. Ignatieff is apparently expected to unite the left and do the same, or similar. Now, though, I think liberal loyalists–that is, those who haven’t already crossed over to the dark side–would just be happy if he could unite the center left. And stop the bleeding. Or maybe just stop the bleeding.
