What do you think has been Iggy's most substantive flip flop since becoming Liberal leader? It is no coincidence that a number of his flips have flopped to more NDP friendly positions, such as corporate tax cuts, which he supported until he was against it. Though he did do a last minute flop away from EI 360, leaving the opposition high and dry. He has abandoned his own MPs on private members bills that were important to his caucus, which may or may not count as an Iggy flop.
I would like to build up a list of his flip flops for a future poll question, possibly even a series of poll questions.
The most egregious flip-flop is stimulus spending. Demanding money be spent and then blaming the CPC for doing it (well, actually, according to the AG).
ReplyDeleteNot sure if this counts, but I think his biggest flip-flop was saying, "your time is up".....and then "poof". Nothing.
ReplyDeleteThe most telling flipflop was when Iffy backed Coderre's star female candidate and the rejection of Cauchon, for Outremont ;
ReplyDeletethen poof, Iffy reverses (pressure from the big boys) and backs Cauchon's candidacy.
Then Coderre, humiliated, resigns as Quebec boss.
Not a leader, someone behind the curtain is pulling the strings. No political judgment.
Destructive through incompetency.
After every Calgary Stampeders football game, the four commentators on the radio, each pick their "turning point" of the game. Looking back at Iggy's erratic performance, with his many sacks, fumbles, and interceptions, I would pick his flip flop over EI 360 in June, 2009.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have Scott Feschuck, former speechwriter to Paul Martin, and uber Liberal apologist, writing this humorous dig at Iggy, Ignatieff/Harper: How it all went down, and the ppg laughing at Iggy's ridiculous press conferences to "explain" his position, then at that point, I think the jig was up for Iggy.
Harper How about a panel? We could appoint a panel to look into this whole Employment Insurance thing over the summer.
Ignatieff A panel? You must be joking. Only a day ago, I stood before Canadians and firmly proclaimed: “The government’s answers in this accountability report aren’t good enough. The government’s performance in Parliament isn’t good enough.” And a panel is going to change that? For weeks I’ve described as “urgent” the need to implement serious reforms to EI. On the very weekend I was confirmed as party leader, I declared in the strongest terms possible the need for “immediate” action to “protect these unemployed workers across the country who badly need help and if the government will work with me, we can get it done. If they won’t, we’ll have to have an election.” Further, I stated without even the hint of hedging that “we have to fix [EI] and we have to fix it now.” Key word: Now. Today, one of my senior MPs said some Canadians would “starve to death” without “immediate” EI reform. Starve to death! So a panel? A panel that would consult and ponder and deliberate over the summer, wasting valuable time and leaving many jobless Canadians twisting in the cruel wind of one of the great economic crises of our time? I find the very thought of it absurd, and I reject your proposal out of hand.
Harper What if we make it a blue-ribbon panel?
Ignatieff Deal.