Kudos on the gun registry

I'm a little late to the party on this one, but still very happy to see this step in a progressive direction from our leader.

I can be as critical as the next guy, but at first blush I'm very pleased by this news.

Kudos.

Why haven’t anti-choice Liberal MPs been punished?

I’m still upset with Michael Ignatieff over the whole abortion vote fiasco in the House a few weeks ago. Why? He promised that those who defied the party line would be dealt with.

What’s happened to those anti-choice Liberals that helped the Tories defeat our motion that day? Paul Szabo is still Chair of the Ethics Committee – that’s an extra $10,000 a year in salary he gets. And Dan McTeague is still a full Liberal Party critic.

So Michael promises our core that he will deal with these rebels, yet nothing happens.

I tell you this...Bob Rae wouldn’t have had this happen in the first place.

Jack Layton all too silent on HST

I don’t often post about provincial politics but this caught my eye.

Our Liberal Premiers in Ontario and BC have taken a lot of flak for their decisions on the HST, most vocally by provincial NDP parties and from Jack Layton in Ottawa.

That’s why I find it a little rich now that an NDP government in Nova Scotia is proposing to raise their HST to the highest in the land, and we hear nothing but crickets chirping from Jack Layton.

That’s so typical of the NDP – do as I say, not as I do.