Maybe they are trying to compete with me.
The National Post’s editorial today broaches a sacred tradtional Canadian liberal taboo: exposing the truth —about liberals!
Ouch! Competition!
[t]he Liberal government’s current effort to wrap itself in the Charter and the Supreme Court’s blessing must be seen for the political hoax it is.
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All of this has proven inconvenient for Paul Martin. As the poll published in yesterday’s National Post showed, most Canadians oppose gay marriage. Trapped between his party’s urban, left-leaning base and the bulk of voters, the Prime Minister had hoped to present his gay marriage legislation, introduced on Tuesday, as a necessity imposed by the Supreme Court rather than a discretionary act of social engineering.
And so, Mr. Martin and his Cabinet have spent the last two months trying to convince Canadians that the Supreme Court said something it didn’t: that the current definition of marriage in unconstitutional. Appealing to the vague emotional attachment many Canadians have to the Charter, the PM and his Justice Minister have falsely declared that implementing gay marriage is necessary to protect the document, and suggested that their opponents seek to tear it up or vitiate it through use of the notwithstanding clause.
The result is that Canadians are being sold a false bill of goods. […]
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