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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Edaward Greenspon on the need to rebuild the centre (in the Toronto Star)

Edward Greenspon is Vice-President, Business Development, of the Star. He is a former editor-in-chief and former Ottawa bureau chief of the Globe and Mail.

"For all its neglect, Liberalism actually stands for something important. It is, in the words of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, not a neutral concept but “a fighting creed.” It says: “That is not the way we do things” in the face of illiberal behaviours, whether these be misleading MPs about signatures on documents, failing to disclose the costs of fighter jets or prisons, proroguing Parliament rather than abide by rulings, attacking the legitimacy of independent watchdogs from Elections Canada to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, jamming the judiciary or weakening the channels of knowledge by which decisions can be taken on the basis of evidence rather than belief.

"The early question in this election is how hard the arch-centralists are prepared to fight for their creed."

Full article: Greenspon: Most interesting C-word of the election? Centralist.

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