According to a sworn affidavit from another Liberal released yesterday on the Soloman Show, Joe Clark has been involved in the negotiations to fuse the Liberal Party and the NDP. Yes, that same former Tory who served 9 months as Prime Minister in between Trudeau administrations and who resisted the uniting of the right wing parties is now allegedly working to unite the left. The irony is substantial, and you have to wonder how a man who wants to shift the Liberals to the left was ever allowed to lead a right wing party in Canada. Clark should have never been a Tory, and recent history has proved this out.
I was one of a tiny number of Canadians born during Joe Clark's rule as Prime Minister. What I know of his administration I have read in the history books. I was too young to absorb the gravity of the experience, considering that I wasn't even 4 months old when he was permanently ousted from the Prime Minister's office. My very first political allegiance was to the Mike Harris Progressive Conservative Party. The first federal election that I was eligible to vote in, I did not vote for the PC candidate, I voted for the Alliance.
PC + Alliance was only 2% behind Chretien in popular vote, but over 90 seats back. If you wanted a Conservative government, it made no sense to oppose reuniting the right. Come to think about it, they called it unite the right, but it should have been reunite the right since the two parties were only 10 years removed from being the same party. To compare that merger to a Liberal-Dipper merger is not fair because those two parties have been fighting for decades. The right split for 10 years, 10 years that delivered 3 Liberal majorities.
Clark was never a real conservative...his wife wouldn't let him.
ReplyDeleteJoe Clark = one embarrassing Albertan.
ReplyDeleteThis guy has a hate on for the PM, which in my opinion, is a compliment to the PM.
He is a complete and utter failure and the bitterness that comes from both him and his wife are more suitable to him being a Liberal. That aspect is in THEIR DNA and apparently it has rubbed off very, very well.
JOE WHO? This man is an embarrassment to Canada .He cannot count seats and nobody knows his last name.Who is he.?And what is a McTeer.
ReplyDeleteOne need only look at recent headlines and appearances by Maureen McTeer and Hubby:
ReplyDeleteCarleton University honours political couple
Clark, McTeer speak at convocation
McTeer placed extra emphasis on standing up for women's rights. A lifelong advocate of gender equality who fought to include reference to women in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, she has recently spoken out against the Harper government's refusal to include abortion in its funding initiatives for maternal health in the developing world.
That's easy, bertie, a McTeer is what wears the pants in a male female relationship.
ReplyDeleteClark is still looking for a Senate seat.
ReplyDeleteI was an observer at the Tory convention when Clark was picked over Claude Wagner. Big mistake. Sinclair Stevens was the one who swung to Clark and was the kingmaker. You may remember him for other reasons!
I remember ads saying if Joe can convince his wife to take his name, how can he convince Canadians of anything (paraphrased)
ReplyDeleteHow did he get elected the last time in Calgary, by all the fringe groups and opposition making a pact to vote for him. Then he had to lead a pride parade as payoff.
There are a lot of liberals/ndp types that try to get elected as a conservative, but they are always found out and denied a nomination.
Clark was a progressive, not a conservative. Today the only Progressives in Canada are Liberals.
ReplyDeleteWith Clark's track record it is abundantly clear that a coalition of the foolish will surely fail. When is the last time Clark was correct on anything political?
ReplyDeleteThis proves what many conservatives already knew about Joe, that he is really a liberal.
ReplyDeleteClark is so widely regarded he can't even get a job in Ottawa. His association with McMurtry is further evidence of his lack of integrity. Out of respect for the institution of the Attorney General I will not comment further on McMurtry.
ReplyDeleteObviously their role is to keep those right-leaning Liberals and the queers from defecting to the Conservatives if a merger takes place. Sad.
To his credit, Joe Clark was an excellent Minister of External Affairs. He was well informed, worked hard and supported departmental staff. He was indeed a failure as party leader - he was very principled and naive, and lots of easterners helped take him down (remember Schrieber's testimony). He has moved further left over the years, no doubt being influenced by his wife and international work, which is now very lefy.
ReplyDeleteJoe Clark always was a complete joke.
ReplyDeletePart of Mr Clark's problem is that he has only ever been a politician. There was no 'real job' for him after university, just politics. Nothing seems to have rubbed off from his father's small business. I'm increasingly looking at candidates for positions and asking if they've ever met a payroll, or been a hard-working employee helping keep the firm going.
ReplyDeleteJoe Clark is an embarrasement to Canada as Carter is an embarrasement to the U.S.
ReplyDeleteJoe Clark is a big government progressive that believes government is the solution to all the ills of society. He buys into the notion that Canada is a discriminatory country that must be fixed by political elites. In other words, he is a liberal... depending on his economic position possibly NDP.
ReplyDeleteJoe Clark has a legacy of integrity and defines the term 'Honourable' far more than either of his two successors as Conservative leader/Prime Minister. I have believed for a while now that if he was still leader of the PC party when the Adscam scandal broke, that Canadians would have given him the largest majority in Canadian history - try using the 'hidden agenda' card against him!
ReplyDeleteI for one am suspicious of the claim that Clark was involved in Liberal/NDP talk (which Liberals and NDper's are claiming they have nothing to do with!). Can someone provide the link to support this?