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Friday, March 18, 2011

Bob Hepburn: Layton should listen to NDP elder statesmen (in the Toronto Star)

"If NDP Leader Jack Layton is thinking at all about propping up the Harper government once again in return for a few crumbs in next Tuesday’s budget, he should stop and listen to some of his party’s elder statesmen.

"They would tell him they consider the Conservative government under Stephen Harper to be the most right-wing, mean-spirited and dictatorial regime in Ottawa in living memory.

"They would also tell Layton the Tories now running Ottawa have damaged Canada’s reputation abroad and at home and are nothing more than “oafs” who are more aligned with the Tea Party in the U.S. than they are with mainstream Canadians...

"Former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent, speaking earlier this week on CBC Radio, ... said that when he travels overseas now he is met by something 'approaching contempt for the government today' because of its policies toward the Mideast, foreign aid and peacekeeping. 'They all see our government as a very right-wing government that has gone back on everything this country used to stand for,' he added.

"Stephen Lewis, a former Ontario NDP leader and Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, so dislikes Harper and his Tories that he can hardly talk about them."

Full article: Hepburn: Layton should listen to NDP elder statesmen

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