In the May 16 edition of the National Post, columnist Don Martin quotes Deputy Prime Minister anne McLellan at length about the upcoming federal election campaign. From the sounds of it, the campaign will be pretty much the same negative battle that it was in 2004. Paul Martin will travel from sea to sea to sea, demonizing Stephen Harper and the Conservatives; in fact it has already started. The Martin Liberals will of course be aided and abetted by their friends in the media who, faster than a speeding bullet have already transformed Harper from a too-mild-to-lead policy wonk into one of those angry white males that the Liberals and their enablers in the media love to hate. This "angry Harper" all arose because the Tory leader happened to say what we all thought--that Martin was delaying the confidence vote until after the cancer-ridden Conservative MP Darrel Stinson would be recovering from surgery and unable to attend Parliament for the vote.
Don Martin quoted McLellan as saying, "Mr. Harper, why are you so angry with Canada? Why do you dislike what our country is all about?" Once again the Liberals intend to play the patriotism card. If Stephen Harper, or anyone else for that matter, doesn’t like the way the Liberal Party governs the country are automatically assumed to dislike "the country" and to be un-Canadian. People have no legitimate right to disagree with either Liberal policy or their massive corruption. In their eyes, the Liberals "are" Canada. This of course is insulting not just to Stephen Harper and the Conservatives but to all Canadians who do not support the Liberal Party or their agenda. arrogance doesn’t get any stronger than this.
Democratic countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States shy away from attacking their citizens’ patriotism merely because different people hold different political viewpoints. as vicious and personal as last November’s american elections got with attacks on George W. Bush’s intelligence and John Kerry’s Vietnam War record, both the Democrats and the Republicans refrained from going after their opponents’ patriotism. The Republicans were especially careful not to characterize anti-Iraq war Democrats as anti-american or unpatriotic. But in this country, labelling a significant portion of the country as unpatriotic and accusing them of hating the country because they disapprove of the way the Liberals govern Canada is perfectly acceptable to Paul Martin and his corrupt gang.
What is a little frightening is that this "hating Canada" remark was made by McLellan. Paul Martin, as Canadians are learning if they don’t already know is not quite the bright light that many people thought he was when he was running for the leadership. He’s a 66-year-old man who, if he works extremely hard for what is left of his life will never rise to the level of mediocrity. Nothing matters to Martin other than to hold on to the power that he had sought for so long. He had no scruples when it came to winning the leadership of his party so it is hardly surprising that he would accuse loyal Canadians of hating their country if that what it takes to win. But anne McLellan is an intelligent woman who should know better. If anyone in the Liberal Party could feel shame, and this is doubtful in light of the massive corruption that defines the once proud party, she would be ashamed of herself.
The worst thing about the Liberal accusations of Canadians being un-Canadian and hating their country is the fact that very few Canadians are upset by it. Many will go trundling off to the polls, especially in Ontario and mark an "X" beside the name of their Liberal candidate, all because they are too afraid to vote any other way.
If people cannot be deterred from voting Liberal by theft, fraud, forgery and money laundering, it is hard to see how a questioning their fellow Canadians’ loyalty could make any difference.
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