Wednesday, November 1, 2000 — North Shore News - 7

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“BEWARE the forces
of che Dark Side,”
Prime Minister Jean
Chrétien told the
assembled lickspittles
at the 50th National
Liberal Congress.

Either he has just won
the complete works of
George Lucas or Warren
Kinsella is now writing his
speeches as well as conduct-
ing his backroom propagan-
da campaign.

{n his speech, Chrétien
did not name the Canadian
Alliance but left title doubt
to whom he was referring.
The prime minister was try-
ing to paint the Alliance and
its leader, Stockwell Day, as
extreme right wing types
who will destroy this coun-
trv.

Now, it should be said
that Liberal spin doctors
were quick off the mark to

crime and
5} punishment

deny the prime minister was
referring ta the Alliance.
Considering he is embroiled
in an election campaign and
recent polls show his lead is
sl ping and he referred to
ose Who would dike us to
lose the election,” it is lett
for you decide if he was try-
ing to paint the Alliance as
fascist, extremist and evil.
Chrétien launched his
election bid saying it is all
about “values.” Liberal val-
ues, presumably. He said the
election is about the future.
Good thing, [ suppose. The
last thing this government

’s record, i

should run on is their
record. Which, E should
point out, is a whole lot less
than stellar,

In 1997, Chrétien dis-
solved the shortest mandate
since LOL] to go to the peo-
ple and got a substantially
reduced majority govern-
ment. He has managed to
beat that record in calling
this election with two years
to run on the last mandate.
Political opportunism is cer-
tainly the reason.

In 1993, Chretien vowed
to rid this country of the
hated GST. When exactly,
he did not say. He promised
to renegotiate free trade.
He hasn't. Why exactly, he
did not say.

His failure to keep cam-
paign promises brings into
question his so-called mini-
budget, which because it was
never debated in the House
prior to the election call, is
nothing more than a

OUR

promise.

But all of this is really
minor stuff, Telling perhaps,
but minor.

What this election should
really be about is the scan-
dals and whether or not
Canadians want more of
this.

How many more police
iavestigations and charges
laid will be required into the
HRDC debacle before
someone in Clirétien’s gov-
ernment takes some respon-
sibility? He just doesn't
seem to care. He even
kicked off his election cam-
paign in the same horel in
Shawinigan which received
$600,000 in federal grant
money betore it even
applied. The police are
investigating that particular
little sleight of hand but the
prime minister doesn’t even
care about the optics of hav-
ing his catiypaign launch

there.

He shut down the
Somalia enquiry just when it
was starting fo get to the
meat of the issues (and close

to the government). What
about the whole Hep-C fias-
co? Or pulling the puppet

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