Liberal MP Scott Brison reminds me of the mainline media--makes front-page mistakes and buries apologies on page 184.
It couldn't possibly have had anything to do with the post-Gomery Report and its attendant drop of the scandal-plagued Liberals in the polls when Brison come out swinging at the National Citizens Coalition (NCC).
No, of course not.
Brison, who a couple of years back jumped from the Conservative Party to the Liberal party for what Tory leader Peter MacKay said was a "cynical and manipulative move to advance his career", is, after all, so trustworthy.
For his part about the big defection, Brison said the Liberal party better reflects his "personal values" and--the "values of his constituents".
But there was never any proof that the Nova Scotia constituents who voted him into office as a Tory felt the Liberal party better reflected their values after their man got himself elected.
When the Conservative party was in its salad days, Brison, who is openly gay, was telling friends he expected the new party to have problems with intolerant members of parliament and he wanted to avoid becoming a poster boy for gay issues.
Paul Martin welcomed Brison to the Liberal caucus, saying he would make a "tremendous addition" to the party.
In jumping ship, Brison was a couple of years ahead of Mata Hari member Belinda Stronach, who became the second Conservative MP to cross the floor to join the Liberals. Scotty was there first.
When other politicians have to own up to having been wrong about smearing individuals or organizations, they have to eat the proverbial crow out in the public spotlight.
Not Liberal MP Scott Brison.
When members of the Opposition parties were questioning the Gomery Report's exoneration of Prime Minister Paul Martin, Brison headed to the headlines with his smear of the National Citizens Coalition. Brison's main target, if only by extension, was Stephen Harper, NCC former president and leader of the party Brison was elected to serve.
Like a beacon in the dark for scores of disenfranchised Canadians, the NCC is one of the few organizations that does its job. NCC was out there on the Save Taxpayers Money front with its well-publicized Pigs at the Trough project long before adscam hit the headlines. Indeed long before auditor General Sheila Fraser ever pointed to Liberal spending atrocities that led the way to adscam.
after scoring publicity on his published malicious and false statements against NCC, Brison apologized.
It is worthy to note that Brison's written apology came only after NCC President Gerry Nicholls demanded both it and a retraction.
"…I was in error to say that the NCC was charged six times with violations of the Elections act," Brison wrote Nicholls. "It was premature to say that there was a contravention of the Lobbyist Registration act. In order to resolve and clarify the nature of these activities, I have asked the Registrar of Lobbyists to investigate, I was provided with incorrect information, but I accept responsibility for my statements. I regret my errors, and I withdraw those statements categorically."
Liberal MP Scott Brison, who has been "in error" for some time, didn't just come to notoriety by crossing the floor of Parliament, he's a politician who gets his wires crossed.
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