This is not good news for the Liberal Party. In her column on June 12, headed 'Sputtering Conservative machine needs a summer tune-up', Barbara Yaffe has this to say about the Liberal Party:
"And its main opposition, the Liberals, have installed a leader in Stephane Dion who so far has failed to impress. Moreover, the party has not advanced a coherent policy platform to lure voters from the government."
The Cat agrees with her comment on the lack of a coherent policy.
At a time when the Harper 'new' government has run out of new ideas he is willing to table with the voters, when Harper is showing an arrogant tone-deafness to people's concerns, when the Tories are relying on sound and sight bytes instead of policies, when Harper is childishly asking the premier of a province to 'take it outside', when the Tories have tried sleight of hand instead of honesty with regards to the environmental concerns of Canadians and the world, and when the Liberals have had six months to work out the kinks of a new leadership team, the comments of Yaffe and others on the lack of a persuasive program of policies for voters to give serious consideration, are serious, and warrant examination and action.
How about it, Liberal leaders? Time to start leading?
The Cat thinks so.
