Broadbent Might Make A Comeback

Done Deal !! He\'s running !

I watched the interview on CPAC and he is right on top of Martin and his right-wing agenda. He is going to become one major pain in the ass when they call the election.

Between Jack and Ed, they can certainly use the media very well. Let\'s hope it makes a real difference.

(I still hope they merge with CAP and any others that want to keep Canada healthy. They will still need all the help they can get.)

This is good news !!!





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"Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
Jim Callaghan
Minden, Ontario
705-286-1860
www.misterc.ca

Yeah, I welcome this news too!

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Dave Ruston

You should have heard Broadbent on CBC Radio One, 99.1. He didn\'t let the Mary Lou Findlay-clone (on Findlay\'s show) pull the \"Robot-right\", as Robin mAtthews would say. He spoke with passion, integrity, and confidence, talking his whole way through the interview.

He survived the host\'s initial 2 repulsive questions, such as \"Only as an MP? You were leader of the party, shouldn\'t you be resting on you laurels?\" (Isn\'t that an awful thing to say? She warmed to him, in her usual dry way.

(Keep in mind, at age 67, he\'s only 2 (!!!) years older than Paul Martin, and 2 years YOUNGER than Jean CHretien, who could\'ve won another majority......and he previously reired from politics at 53! They couldn\'t find anoything bad to say about him! .....

He spoke well about the rising inequality in Canadian society, corporate responsibility, and how Martin acted on none of his panel\'s recommendations, and so forth.....he said \"Because I care about my country\", to the stupid question(s) \"Why do you care, why are you doing this?\" (What a bunch of airheads at CBC.)



T.V. the ugly: former phony Ontario Liberal (Fiberal) spokesman (who appeared on the TVO panel) Richard Mahoney, who is running against Broadbent, said: \"What we are seeing is The NDP inciting class-warfare arguments against Paul Martin\'s vision for the 21st century.\" (What a phony snob.

And Paul MArtin\'s gem: \"The NDP has been holdin a lot of press conferences, and P.R. moves, but this isn\'t the former great NDP, this is NDP-lite, and I don\'t think Canadians are going to buy it.\" (Some truth to the NDP-lite comment, but he\'s still much worse than them, and a phoney to boot, talking today about how \"Canadians should have head offices in Canada, and that\'s why CSL is headquartered hear, (never mind foreign ownership) and that he wants to build a country where an entrepreneur can do well in Canada and internationally. (He used the words \"That\'s not the kind of country we want to build.\"

Still it\'s nice that Mary-Lou Findlay seriously-questioned Martin....to bad the louse is voting Conservative Party.

How out of touch is the Martian, as if most Canadians are entrepreneursm needing 4.4 billion in tax-cuts to make ends meet....screw everything else but health care.

It was funny to hear Martin\'s minders talk about the NDP. They mocked the NDP abou their \'class war\' & Layton is Canada\'s Ralph Nader to Martin\'s Republican Party etc etc. After Layton slaughtered Martin over the huge corporate tax cut & said that $$$ should have been spent on a national housing program & national clean-water program Martin tried to teel the media the NDP has no policies & they oppose just for the sake of opposing. HAHAHA Paul Martin! I think he said the NDP has no policies he just doesn\'t like the NDP policies. I\'m sure Layton could tell someone what the NDP\'s position is no matter what the issue!

btw: Broadbent has one of the best & most well-known quotes from the free-trade debates of 1988 (slight paraphrase, I can\'t remember it exactly): \"I can tell you that this is the first time in Canadian history that we have a Prime Minister who, without even being asked, has volunteered Canada to be the 51st state of the union.\"

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"So many right-wing Christians, so few lions." - t-shirt I saw @ school

I`m sick of hearing from these corporate fascists that NDP-CCF policies are retro, a thing of the past, that won`t fly today! Good platforms and ideas are timeless! If anything is regressive, it is the political platforms of the liberals, and the new (old) conservative party. Even though Shiela Copps is a fake, they did the same thing to her, when she was attempting to run for the liberal leadership, and she said that her platform was like Trudeau`s. She was blasted by Martinites and others from the far right as having \'yesterday`s ideas\' that are irrelevant in today`s \'global\' climate. These losers obviously think that social and economic justice are irrelevant in today`s world! HAPPY SWEATSHIPPING!!!

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Dave Ruston

To paraphrase Broadbent: \"Most of the countries after WWII worked to create more equal societes, we\'ve gotten away from that, but Western Europe kept going...\" So no, it\'s not just outdated, obsolete ideas on running a country. Martin\'s PR people would like to think so though.