Obfuscated Thoughtlessness Inversed

Prime Minister-in-waiting-Dion's attempts to remake his Liberal caucus as left-wing and ignore the 13 years of failures to act, continues. This week, parts of the useless anti-terrorism laws that the Chretien government brought in, while Dion was a minister, are up for debate. A couple of the many illegal and immoral sections of the law are set to expire on March 1, 2007.

The Dion led caucus has taken a stand, to vote to do nothing and allow the expiration of these sections, along with the NDP who opposed them in the first place and the Bloc. The problem for Dion is his party loves these laws. Several prominent members of the Chretien administration, Dion used to be part of and Bob Rae (who also happens to be co-chair of the platform committee for the next Liberal election platform) have all been critical. Apparently, so have 20 of Dion's backbench.

Now don't get me wrong, I'd be delighted if for once the Liberal party:

1. imploded through internal conflict over past-guilt,
2. went all crazy and right-wing and kept supporting the passage of the kind of laws they did in the last 13 years thereby destroying any chance of getting elected in lefty Canada, or
3. went all lefty and actually started arguing for the kind of change we need, like the repeal of security certificate legislation (also brought in under Chretien).

All of these are unrealistic expectations of a party almost as divided as our country itself. Instead, it will tow some bizarre and incomprehensible middle line through opposition into government where it will govern completely differently than it says it will in the next Red Book (or will it be called the Rae Book this time around).

At least some people are standing up for basic Human Rights and critically needed electoral reform.

It is hard to forget at moments like these that:

"It took 89,296 votes to elect each NDP MP — but just 43,339 votes for each Conservative, 43,490 for each Liberal, and 30,455 for each Bloc MP."

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