The False Champion of the Canadian Left

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Thursday September 24, 2009 · 1:51 AM PDT

2009/09/24 · 01:51

Nearly a year after the American public rejected the foreign policy of the Bush Administration, Canada faces an embarrassing leadership struggle between two neocon cheerleaders.

On Friday, the Liberal Party of Canada threw down the gauntlet and submitted a vote of no confidence in the minority government led by Conservative PM Stephen Harper. Many progressives might think "why not?" Harper is, after all, a wolf in wolf’s clothing, managing to run a neoconservative, neoliberal government with voter support of his party in the mid-30 percent range, and all the rest of Canada to his left.

Unfortunately, Harper’s challenger, Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff, is just as much a wolf, but poses a much greater danger to the Left because he dresses as our shepherd.

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