>“To raise people up from poverty. To reconcile private interests with public rights. To attack monopoly. To reward enterprise, but not with untrammeled privilege and preference. To exalt the individual over ruler or regulation. To expand freedom at home and abroad. This is our liberalism.”
From where I sit - and this may be as good a post mortem as any - this is what the NDP stood for, and what the Liberals opposed.
We need to get back to our roots, get new blood at the top., not be in a rush to get a leader and go back to the party of Laurier and Pearson, good Grits.
Downes, I agree that much of the NDP's success was for standing up for small "l" liberal values -- and we certainly failed to be clear what we stood for. I wish the NDP success. I still think we have much of value to say; but my allegiance is to the values of Liberalism and not to a name or title.
Mr. Morton you assume that voters didn't do their research and if you only got the message out there that we the public would have voted liberal, my daughter voted for the first time and she made an informed vote, she did not vote conservative like the rest of us, she did her research and decided that green was her color, and I respect that. People didn't vote red because they no longer share the same values as the reds, the liberals problem stems from assuming people got it wrong and I think 80% of the country got it right. Liberals are out of touch, your policies are unrealistic. Iggy's 1 billion on child care would have been over 20 billion, reminds me of the long gun registry, only 1 million it will cost, and it was up over 1 billion. Liberals can't be trusted.
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>“To raise people up from poverty. To reconcile private interests with public rights. To attack monopoly. To reward enterprise, but not with untrammeled privilege and preference. To exalt the individual over ruler or regulation. To expand freedom at home and abroad. This is our liberalism.”
From where I sit - and this may be as good a post mortem as any - this is what the NDP stood for, and what the Liberals opposed.
We need to get back to our roots, get new blood at the top., not be in a rush to get a leader and go back to the party of Laurier and Pearson, good Grits.
Given that I do not have a
predisposition toward liberalism I will stay silent.
Downes, I agree that much of the NDP's success was for standing up for small "l" liberal values -- and we certainly failed to be clear what we stood for. I wish the NDP success. I still think we have much of value to say; but my allegiance is to the values of Liberalism and not to a name or title.
Very Interesting facts.Thanks for sharing.
Mr. Morton you assume that voters didn't do their research and if you only got the message out there that we the public would have voted liberal, my daughter voted for the first time and she made an informed vote, she did not vote conservative like the rest of us, she did her research and decided that green was her color, and I respect that. People didn't vote red because they no longer share the same values as the reds, the liberals problem stems from assuming people got it wrong and I think 80% of the country got it right. Liberals are out of touch, your policies are unrealistic. Iggy's 1 billion on child care would have been over 20 billion, reminds me of the long gun registry, only 1 million it will cost, and it was up over 1 billion. Liberals can't be trusted.
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