Tory Redux

Author: Jon Siemko

  • It Started With Meech Lake

    Former Liberal insider starts the blame Brian Mulroney campaign.


    From Vancouver Sun
    According to Jeffrey, it was Mulroney’s attempts to bring Quebec into the constitutional fold and the Meech Lake accord that really did the Liberals in, created a “perfect storm” and instigated caucus division — not based on personalities, but rather on the principles of federalism.


    “That pretty much ripped the party asunder,” Jeffrey said, referring to the Meech Lake accord. The academic and former Liberal insider writes that the ordeal is blamed by some for the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party, but few recognize the impact it had on what was once called Canada’s “natural governing party.”


    “Nobody really understands how badly it affected the Liberal party,” she said in an interview. Jeffrey, who worked on Parliament Hill during John Turner’s term as leader of the Liberals, said disagreement over Meech Lake exposed a new cleavage that cut across the traditional divide between business and social Liberals.

  • McGuinty Says He Failed

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    A day after his government was accused of infringing on civil liberties  by Ontario’s ombudsman. Premier Dalton McGuinty admitted he failed in striking a balance between individual freedom and security during the G. 20 summit in Toronto. Can we trust a premier who is so contrite with such a fundamental issue as civil liberties. How many more gaffes can we allow this government to make?

    Premier Dalton McGuinty admits his government “moved too quickly” and “failed to communicate” a secret regulatory change that police used to arrest people at the June G20 summit in Toronto.
     
    “The very premise of our regulation, the law itself, is likely not in keeping with the balance that we would want to strike at the beginning of the 21st century when it comes to public safety and … freedom of expression,” 

  • Atlas Shrugged Coming to the Silver Screen

    Atlas Shrugged the ground breaking novel by Ayn Rand is finally coming to the silver screen. The entertainment site big Hollywood has an exclusive insider’s view of the production [click here]. Hopefully this movie will give conservative libertarians something to cheer about in 2011.