Broadbent Outraged By Martin’S Abuse Of Power

I hope he brings up Martin's constant line of addressing western issues, while ignoring the new Parlament seats that died on the books when Cretin dissolved parlament. Proportional representation for the West!!!<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain <br />
"The greatest price of not participating in politics is being governed by your inferiors." Plato

As much as I am loathe to defend Martin, I must point out that the riding redistribution bill is in process of being passed. It is in fact the conservatives who delayed its swift adoption in the Senate before Parliament was dissolved.

What's interesting to note is how Ed Broadbent's actually supported FTA during the last few days before the deadline that was set. Even though he was clearly opposed to the FTA. Instead of the NDP and Liberals coming together to stop the FTA as it seemed they would have done. The NDP changed from being opposition to FTA to supporters of FTA.

Turns out the Union helped change the NDP support for the FTA after he was clearly oppose to it. Not sure the complete details. I'm going to look more into this.

Its becoming more clear to me now that the NDP needs to do some changes with their connections with the Union as proposed by CAP when they had proposed to merge.

With that said I will still feel forced to vote NDP. Unless the Progressive Canadian Party becomes a actual political party in the upcoming election. Or if Stevens and Orchard get the real Progressive Conservative party back.

Kevin Gagnon

A good way to get some answers to your questions, would be start a discussion on the rabble.ca discussion forum:
http://www.rabble.ca/babble

There's lots of people who are very knowledgeable about NDP history who could clear up how that went down.

As of Jan. 1, the NDP's relationship with unions is fundamentally different, since unions can't give any money to the party because of changes to electoral law. Since they don't have any more financial leverage, the party is much more independent, as you suggest it should be.

Many in Canada on the outset of the announcement of the FTA deal were rather quiet about the whole thing. Most of the NDP were in that catagory until details were released of the deal. the NDP under pressure by many different groups joined the fight - and earned their most seats for it.

The Liberals at the time ALSO fought the FTA. Once in power though...