A Tory Embraces a Liberal

Hugh Segal, who has been a hanger-on of various kinds to various Tories, and has been proud for some time to be known as a "Red" Tory, on Prime Minister Paul Martin:

There has been in the last year, engagement in Haiti, in Darfur and the Middle East; a proposal on an expanded multilateral leadership tier; support for the "responsibility to protect" doctrine; a frank admission that he was the finance minister who slashed Defence funding; an accord on health care; a start to revamping equalization and child care; a proposal on democratic reform and an historic precedent on a negotiated throne speech amendment.

Segal goes on to say Liberals are not praising this supposedly sterling record as much as they should, and the opposition parties will have a tough time because Martin, like a great Prime Minister, is showing he can move both left and right.

This belongs in Frank magazine's "Brown Nose watch."

The rest of us are so wrong to think Martin is weak, or drifting, or failing to live up the endless promises of past decades about how great he would be.

My favourite part: "a frank admission that he was the finance minister who slashed efence funding." Way to move to the right, Paul.

Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:39 pm MST by robertll | Email Article |

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