In a move that is a cynical as anything we've ever seen from Paul Martin and the Liberals, the Prime Minister just now proposes a "Heroes Fund" to support the families of firefighters, police officers and other public-safety workers killed in the line of duty.
If supporting the widows and families of fallen public safety officers was truly important to the Liberals, they wouldn't have waited until mere days before a
Federal election - when the party has declared a "mayday" and is heading down in flames with Captain Martin panicking at the controls.
You can just hear the advice from the co-pilots as they try anything to keep that sick puppy flying...
"I have an idea, Mr. Prime Minister... propose a Heroes Fund like they've had in the States for years. Like the one that the NDP proposed last year and we rejected. But now... what a great sales pitch... Gotta get that sympathy vote for the widows and orphans, eh?"
From the Toronto Star...
"The benefit would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2005 – meaning benefits would go to the families of four RCMP officers killed during a seige at Mayerthorpe, alta."
Martin, Chretien and the Liberals should have made this law a decade ago. By making the fund retroactive only to the period that includes the high-profile Rochfort Bridge murders - the single worst multiple killing of police officers in modern Canadian history - the Liberal cynicism is revealed for all to see.
Shameless.
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