I know that he spent most of his life abroad and doesn't understand Canada, but surely somebody on his team has told the Liberal leader that the final urban strongholds of Liberal support are in Toronto and Montreal. Today Iggy was on TV slamming Toronto as host of the G20 summit coming this summer, these comments coming less than a week after he cursed the Montreal Canadiens magical playoff run by exploiting them to score cheap PR points. At this point he is risking the complete destruction of the Liberal Party of Canada by playing with fire where the majority of his caucus was elected from. Do the people of Etobicoke Lakeshore also think Toronto is a terrible choice to host an international conference?
I'm sure if we were able to do both summits in Huntsville it would have cost less, and I'd say a billion dollars for security is quite excessive. I know that there were enough security concerns at the Toronto venue that they cancelled the Blue Jays series with Philadelphia that was scheduled at the same time. Did the Feds have to pay for all those ticket refunds? I'm sure if specific security threats were received or a plot being monitored, that information would not be made public. Maybe we should have the G8 in Huntsville, and the G20 at Meech Lake?
We know Iggy thinks Toronto was a bad choice to host international dignitaries, and I might even agree with him. I just wonder about the wisdom of slamming the city that sent him to Ottawa. If they can't host a 3 day Summit, how do they expect to host a Summer Olympics? Iggy may cost Toronto their next Olympic bid. Best to vote him back to Boston next time through.
The headline shoulda read,"Iggy Commits Political Suicide".
ReplyDeleteHarvard is beckoning,Michael...........heed the call.
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In my opinion, I think the Harper gov't chose Toronto to help boost the economy in that area --same with the last Gay Parade. Too bad the GTA and Ignatieff are looking a gift horse in the mouth. After all, the ROC is helping pay for this too!
ReplyDelete*thumbs up* I sure hear you on this.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think the Iggomaniac has had enough of being opposition leader and is looking for a way out.
ReplyDeleteOh for gawd's sake, can we please have an election this fall!
ReplyDeleteI know this twit is the best thing to happen to the CPC, but how much running down of our country must we endure !^*@(&_
Vancouver would have been a better choice, especially riding the tail of the Olympic buzz...but Central Canadian Liberals would never have stood for that.
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I live here and there is no one who thinks this was a good idea. Iggy's just saying what his Toronto base has been saying for months.
ReplyDeleteThis article got me thinking, how much of that huge price tag for G8/20 security went to the purchase of assets?
ReplyDeleteMaybe the reason why other countries had much much lower security costs, was because they already had crowd control arsonal.
Rather than try to get the Opps to approve any purchase of security assests as a stand alone item, slip it into this security bill,
take the heat, but yah get your assets...??
just wondering
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/05/27/g20-toronto-police-buy-ear-piercing-sonic-guns-for-crowd-control/