Liberals don't like hearing the truth

I guess they don't like it cause it hurts...

Liberals erupt as Harper implicates MP's in-law
Updated Wed. Feb. 21 2007 6:13 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

Outraged Liberal MPs chanted "shame!" as Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to read from a newspaper article that links a Liberal MP's in-law to the Air India investigation.

According to the article, Saini is a former Ontario spokesman for Babbar Khalsa Panthak, a Sikh militant. He was also an alternative delegate for Liberal leadership hopeful Gerard Kennedy.

The RCMP would interview Saini through investigative hearings made possible by the Anti-Terror Ac. Those hearings allow the authorities to compel people to testify.

On March 1, that provision of the act will die. The Liberals are opposed to a three-year extension of that provision, along with one that allows for preventative detention for 72 hours.

Harper used that to attack the Liberals.

"Even the Air India families say that the position they are now taking will jeopardize the police investigation and ... the Liberal party has no excuse for that position. It's an irresponsible position and they should change that position," he said.

"That the Liberal Party has done a complete flip flop on an issue that is of vital concern to the safety and security of Canadians without explanation is inexcusable and they should reverse their position and get back to doing the right thing."

Also reported by CBC and Global's Canada.com.

Typical Liberal response... shout down the truth, scream bloody murder, do anything at all to avoid dealing with the real issues at hand.

The real problem here is that your position, my dear Liberal MP's, is interfering with the Air India investigation. An investigation, ironically enough, that your Party seems to have been trying to avoid for the last decade. Now why is that?

I find it interesting that when our Prime Minister brings up a legitimate article siting a link a member of your caucus, you shout him down.

Interesting that this new Liberal terror supporting position (well, what else do you call it when someone is anti-anti-terror legislation?) that Mr. Dion is promoting really does appear to be nothing more than payback for support for his leadership campaign, according to an Accociated Press article I am trying to relocate...


UPDATE: Ahh, here it is... thanks to Dust my Broom... who paints the whole picture pretty well I'd say. Is it indeed "payoff time" for leadership support? Here's a quote from that article...

But MPs privately complain that the decision (to not support renewing the anti-terror legislation) was taken by the caucus social justice committee, which is dominated by left-wing Liberals. Most MPs, including those with expertise in national security and human rights matters, were never consulted and were surprised when the decision was presented to them two weeks ago as a fait accompli.

Some privately grouse that Dion has been influenced by militant Sikh and Muslim groups, members of which helped secure his leadership victory last December.

Those complaints were echoed Tuesday by the chairman of the Air India Victims' Families Association.

"It looks like the sympathizers of terrorism have more influence on (Liberals)," Gupta said.

He said Dion may have become "victim of vote bank politics," referring to ethnic bloc voting.

Liberals are howling over this whole thing, saying Mr. Harper must appologize... what, for trying (unsucessfully) to quote from an article published by the media? Please...

Once again, they're missing the boat. For years, people like me have been saying that something stinks in the Liberal Party of Canada... that it reeks of corruption, patronage, entitlement, etc., etc., etc., etc.

Canadians said on January 23, 2006, that the Liberal Party needs to clean up its act. Today's performance in the House, and some of the decisions made since Dion won the leadership, just prove the obvious... the Liberal Party of Canada is solely about POWER, and will do anything, including tolerating the rank stench of corruption, to obtain, or reobtain, it.