Someone sees the difference

From Eye Weekly



September 23, 2009







Edward Keenan is right to say the American debate over healthcare deals with a major issue worthy of vigorous debate ("The politics of pretext," Notebook, Sept. 17). But he's wrong to say Canada's politics don't matter. There is a huge difference between the Liberals and Conservatives and their policies. Just on the criminal justice front — an area I know well as a practising lawyer — the Conservative "tough on crime" policies present a very different future for Canadians than those of the Liberals.



Yes, there is a jockeying for position (and the odd spectre of a Conservative/NDP/Bloc alliance) but, beneath that, there are material differences that matter.