ALight Glimpse Into The NDP

The NDP non-apology offered to David Oliver reveals a serious problemTuesday, December 11, 2007 at 11:08 AM Comments: 15
The NDP has delivered a fake apology for smearing Liberal candidate David Oliver during the 2006 election. I call it a fake apology because it doesn't actually name who is responsible for the decision to hide an Elections Canada letter that would have exonerated Oliver before voting day. The Liberals dropped Oliver as a candidate, and Paul Martin has personally apologized for that decision, a decision that he was responsible for.

The NDP has not identified who is responsible. That person's culpability remains hidden behind an apology that says that the "NDP" was sorry. I can only assume that the NDP wants to protect this person from any fallout that might come from being directly named as the person who hid the letter.

And that makes me think that the person is still an important, and possibly a senior, member of the NDP. Why else would the NDP care to protect him? Since we don't know who that person is, we can't be certain that he is being held to account, or or certain that the NDP can keep a promise that this sort of thing won't happen again.

It would be helpful to hear this person promise not to do this sort of thing again.

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NDP overshoots with racial profiling billThursday, December 13, 2007 at 12:16 PM Comments: 1
The NDP is tabling a bill to ban racial and religious profiling. It is aimed at law enforcement agencies. The NDP is particularly proud that the bill includes CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

The problem is that CSIS is not a law enforcement agency.

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