Sad, if Unsurprising
One breath of fresh air in the last federal election campaign here was the presence of Paul Summerville as an NDP candidate in Toronto, even more as apparently a key economic adviser. It was amazing to hear the party's economic spokesman actually making sense for a change.Well, the outcome was likely predictable, especially as the NDP heads into its policy convention this weekend with its hilarious policy proposals to deal with.
Paul announces the news at his own blog (if indirectly).
The key point is the obvious one:
Mr. Summerville says that if the NDP is to be taken seriously it has to accept the market economy is [not] "a necessary evil but an indispensable part of the engine of prosperity and by implication, justice. In addition, the party must accept the fact that Canada does not, and never will have the capacity to rewrite the rules of engagement in the global economy. ... Consequently, saddling the party with anti-trade, anti-corporation, anti-market rhetoric just perpetuates its marginal status at federal level.”
I expect him to be a welcome addition to the Liberal party.
posted by Alan Adamson @ 8:01 PM
2 Comments:
Okay, but why Bob Rae? Why not Ignatieff?
My guess - a better mapping to other positions, like anti-Iraq-war, and maybe even anti-Afghanistan. Also - likely NDP networking as the reasonable members are forced to defect to the Liberals.
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