Iggy Moment

Stephen Taylor: The Liberals' Somalia cover-up, then and now

Posted: January 11, 2010, 2:15 PM by NP Editor
Filed under: Full Comment,Stephen Taylor,Canadian politcs

Good times are here again! The Liberals have released an attack on YouTube (not an ad, just earned media bait — full irony understood here). The video implies Canada is acting like a third world country:

“Cover-up: a description far more familiar to other countries, until now.”

Cover-ups. Where have we heard this before?

[It] shocked the Canadian public and brought to light internal problems in the Canadian [Forces]. Military leadership came into sharp rebuke after a CBC reporter received altered documents, leading to allegations of a cover up. Eventually a public inquiry was called. [It was] controversially cut short by the government…

Is this today’s story of alleged (yes alleged) torture in of Afghans in Afghanistan by Afghans? No. This was about Somalia. This was about Canadians. This was about a cover-up by a Liberal government.

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OTTAWA - It looks like the Liberals will be all alone when they return to Parliament Hill for work later this month. 11 January