MR BRISON HAS A HIDDEN AGENDA AFTER ALL: ARE YOU SCARED?

Reptilian Kitten Eater (h/t to Warren Kinsella--yikes!)

As for the attacks against Harper [by Scott Brision] being in favour of privatized health care, there may be some truth there. Just take a look at these quotes:

"Roy Romanow was supposed to provide advice on how to change and create a more sustainable health care system in Canada. Instead, he clings to the belief that more money and an ideologically rigid opposition to private components in health care is the panacea – the universal solution.”"
(Press Release, November 29, 2002)

"Whether for political or ideological reasons, Mr. Romanow refused to acknowledge private-sector involvement, quite possibly to the detriment of Canada's health-care system."
(Globe and Mail, November 29, 2002)

"If you want to gut the Canadian public health care system, the best way to do it is toÂ… prevent any level of private participation in the Canadian system."(Hansard, December 10, 2002)

There's only one problem. Those quotes aren't things Stephen Harper said. They were said by a certain MP from Kings-Hants.

The mainstream media do not report this sort of thing, and Canadians (a smaller and smaller proportion bothering with each election) keep electing these people.

An aside: Mr Brison's department has put a freeze on hiring white males. I wonder how closely the composition of his ministerial exempt staff and of his riding office comes to meeting the department's diversity "goals"?

Update: Mr Brison admits he is truth-challenged.

Public Works Minister Scott Brison stood in the House of Commons and publicly apologized for saying that Opposition Leader Stephen Harper had breached federal lobbying laws while he was head of the National Citizens' Coalition...

In the letter, he says that a statement he made saying that the National Citizens' Coalition (which Mr. Harper headed up before joining the Conservative Party) had been charged under the Canada Elections Act, was simply not true. He also said it is untrue that Mr. Harper and the NCC had contravened any federal lobbying law while he was president.

He also apologized for saying that Mr. Harper's past was "littered with examples of questionable if not illegal behaviour."

"I make the following statement as a correction and by way of apology," Mr. Brison said.

How Long Oh Lord, How Long?

Posted by markc at November 21, 2005 12:43 PM | TrackBack