Trapped in Suburbia…

Perhaps one of the things that’s annoyed me most about the ongoing putsch is the disingenuous nature of spin emerging from the ranks of the NDP-Liberal-Bloc triumvirate. While politicians are hardly considered paragons of honesty and virtue the Liberals seem to have perfected the ability to lie with a completely straight face.

Since the coup first hit the MSM prominent Liberals have been lining up to extoll the virtues of Stephane Dion. A striking contrast to six weeks ago when they began plunging knives into his back even before final election results were tallied. While Stephane was in hiding, presumably nursing his bruised ego, a string of Liberals declared that he must step down, that he must be replaced, that he was a failure, and that he was responsible for dragging the Liberals to their worst election finish in the party’s history.

There were also a number of Liberals that came out to pronounce that Mr. Dion had failed to listen to advice, and that he had the delusional belief that he was going to win the election up until the point the polls started returning results.

Now the Liberals would have us believe that the very same man they declared a failure, the same Leader they pressured into quitting and who will be replaced in less than five months, should be handed the keys to 24 Sussex.

It’s disingenuous, it’s an insult to the intelligence of Canadians, and it borders on criminal. 

It might be amusing were the country not facing the biggest economic crisis since the great depression. But now isn’t the time to hand the reins of the country to someone who couldn’t even manage to get a video taped response to the PM’s public address yesterday to the news media on time.

And, if the insistence that Stephane Dion is to be our saviour wasn’t already proof of their willingness to say anything in their attempt to wrest government away from the Conservatives we need only look at the terms of their agreement with the other parties.

While both the Liberals and NDP insist that the Bloc isn’t part of their triumvirate I’m doubtful a single Canadian has fallen for that one. First, you would have to overlook the fact that Gilles Duceppe was standing alongside Jack Layton and Stephane Dion, signing the papers that launched the putsch in the first place. Second, anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of arithmetic realizes the Liberals/NDP need the Bloc’s seat count if they have any hope of staging a coup.

Third, and certainly the smoking gun, is the signed agreement itself that states, “Furthermore, upon its formation, the government will put in place a permanent consultation mechanism with the Bloc Québécois.”

A permanent consultation mechanism.

In other words, the Bloc will be a permanent part of the Liberal-NDP coalition. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone on the hill, then, when people refer to the ’seperatist coalition’, the “Liberal-NDP-Bloc Coalition”, or the wholly appropriate “three stooges coalition”.

And again, we’re told by prominent Liberals that working with the Bloc is good for Canada and good for confederation. Of course, during the election they were keen to tell us that the Bloc wanted to destroy Canada and that we should vote Liberal as the federalist option.

How quickly things change.

To review. The Liberals believe that Stephane Dion, the party leader who led the Liberals to their worst election result ever and who was forced to resign, is actually the best choice for Prime Minister. That a coalition with the NDP they said would never happen is actually completely natural. And that being beholden to the Bloc, the only party in parliament specifically dedicated to breaking up the country, is good for confederation.

Canadians are tired of being lied to by politicians. They see this naked power grab for what it is, regardless of the triumvirate’s lies.

That’s something the Liberals, NDP, and Bloc are going to learn the hard way at the ballot box…

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