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Originally Posted by MarchHare
All of those scandals occurred under Chretien, who has been retired for five years now. If you're going to attack the party, at least go after current Liberal MP/candidates (and there's certainly plenty to attack Dion over). Is it fair game for someone opposed to the CPC to bring up issues they had with Preston Manning or Brian Mulroney?
I love how you twist his words so they fit into your worldview of poor alienated Albertans. All he was saying is that an individual vote in a "swing" riding has greater importance than a vote in a riding that solidly votes for one party. This is true whether he's talking about Albertans who overwhelming elect conservatives or voters in PEI who always elect Liberals. It's also true in the US -- a vote in a swing state like Ohio has a much greater influence on the outcome of the election than a vote in a "safe" state like California or Mississippi.
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Great post as usual!
Clearly its fair game to attack the Liberals over things that happened nearly 30 years ago (NEP), but you have to forget about things like leaving classified documents at your biker girlfriends place, alleged bribing of MP's with life insurance policies, appointing unelected people to the senate so they can sit in the cabinet, enticing newly elected MP's from other parties across the floor to the cabinet and of course breaking your own laws to make the system more accountable to call elections that no one else really wants.