Tuesday, August 2, 2011

NDP credibility under attack after Turmel’s Bloc ties revealed

I'm not sure how significant this is -- candidly I think we should be glad that people are leaving the Bloc and joining federalist parties.

That said, one thing did catch my attention -- Ms. Turnel's comment that she was a member of the Bloc and the NDP at the same time. Perhaps the NDP is different but my understanding of the Conservatives (and I know for a fact for the Liberals) is that you are not allowed to be a member of any other Federal Party at the same time you are a Conservative or a Liberal.

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The Conservatives are using new revelations about Nycole Turmel’s recent ties with the Bloc Québécois to attack the NDP’s credibility as a government-in-waiting.

Ms. Turmel became the interim leader of the NDP last week, while Jack Layton takes time off for health reasons. The rookie MP confirmed on Tuesday that she was a member of the Bloc from 2006 until January of this year, when she decided to run for the NDP in the spring election. She added that she had also been a member of the NDP for the last two decades.

2 comments:

Kirbycairo said...

I personally have no problem with Turmel's membership in the Bloc. There is a real problem in this country with people attempting to limit discourse and discredit people for having views that are perfectly legitimate. Now if she were a member of a racist organization or one that promoted hatred, then that can be an issue. But the Bloc was the most forceful Social Democratic Party available to Quebecers and it is perfectly understandable that someone who supported many NDP policies would also support the Bloc.

I am so tired of people suggesting that somehow Bloc members did not have the same basic democratic rights as everyone else. Though have never supported the principle of Quebec separatism, I will support to the death their right to be separatists. And English Canadians often forget that one of the primary motivations of many Separatists was the pursuit of a more social democratic country than they thought they could have while belonging to the rest of Canada.

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