A good column by Winnipeg Sun columnist John Gleeson today (hat tip: Ross M.). It counters those predictable nay-sayers of what Liberal Party pretend leader Bill Graham called the “neo-con” budget of the new Harper government (forgetting to add “HALLIBURTON!” to his intelligent liberals remarks).
Grit attacks betray failed strategy
Predictably, the line has formed on the left to oppose Stephen Harper’s “good-news” budget, with subsidized day-care backers, Kyoto diehards, some First Nation leaders and, of course, opposition parties linking arms to wail at the Conservatives’ fiscal cruelty.
When it comes to shrill, unreasoned attacks against this week’s budget, however, no one can hold a candle to the federal Liberals. The funny thing is, the response from longtime Liberal fat cats says more about why they lost the last election than about Harper’s maiden “neo-con” budget.
Former justice minister Irwin Cotler was shocked and awed that the Conservatives actually plan to build one new penitentiary and create additional prison spaces. That’s because the Tories are preparing to set minimum sentences for violent crimes and remove the option of house arrest for such crimes—a move that most Canadians adamantly endorse.
“I was stunned,” Cotler told Canadian Press about the prison initiative. “I’ve never calculated the cost of something like this … because (as justice minister) I was against the idea that would require these costs.”
Cotler added: “I think the Conservative government ought to build more soccer fields rather than building prisons.”
And to think, this guy was Canada’s “justice” minister.
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