- John Ivison: Ignatieff tacks to left in hopes of finding tailwind
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Michael Ignatieff's choice of green jobs as the topic of his speech to the Toronto Board of Trade this week was unfortunate.
It's true he landed a couple of zingers - "We're investing less in renewables than the State of Alaska. When it comes to clean energy, Stephen Harper isn't just behind Barack Obama, he's behind Sarah Palin".
But as he attacked the Conservatives for championing "an ideology of the past", the Prime Minister was in Guelph, opening a new, green, fuel-efficient research and development centre at Linamar Corporation, funded with millions of federal dollars.
How do you impugn your opponent for not believing in activist government when he's an hour away getting his picture taken with a giant Government of Canada cheque?
The Ignatieff-to-Chrétien transformation continues...
In which Michael Ignatieff dusts off some moldy Liberal ideas, and some moldy old Liberals to boot.
A typically sober Globe and Mail editorial on Michael Ignatieff's head-lolled back, eyelid-drooping, painfully conventional snoozefest of a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade yesterday likens the address to an old-fashioned Liberal Red Book, and it seems to mean that as a compliment. It's just that the plan doesn't seem to be, shall we say, fully costed. On that topic, we enjoyed the editorialists' gem of an understatement: “The balanced budget (without tax increases) and the investments Mr. Ignatieff is proposing are starting to look incommensurate.”
But for that same wee issue, the Toronto Star's editorialists loved Mr. Ignatieff's speech to pieces. They'd just like to have an “adult conversation” about raising taxes at some point. Don't wait up, fellas!
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