Mulcair, not Ambrose, holding Liberals to account

[Joe Shlabotnik]

In contrast, on Iraq, Tom Mulcair’s strategy is to push the Liberals on questions for which the Liberals have no answers. Mulcair asks about mission definition and timeline. NDP MPs ask about the Liberals’ much-promised deradicalization strategy. They ask about plans to shut down the flow of foreign fighters. About steps being taken to block terrorist funding. Trudeau provides no answers because he has none.

On the upcoming budget, Ambrose asks about deficit numbers, maintaining the unhelpful impression that Conservatives want deep cuts and balanced budgets at all costs. Tom Mulcair asks about Canadians’ incomes. He calls the Liberals “incompetent” over the loss of 2,800 positions at Bombardier. He wonders “when is the Prime Minister going to act” on manufacturing jobs. He calls the Liberals’ broken promise on the Canada Wheat Board “shocking.” He keeps a spotlight on the TPP. Trudeau has no answers.

And were it not for the weight pulling down Tom Mulcair since the NDP’s poor campaign, the contrast with Ambrose would be even clearer. Daily in Question Period, Mulcair holds the Liberals to account. Conservatives demand the Liberals break more promises.

Without a strong NDP, Morneau, Freeland and the other neo-liberals would move their party further right – back to the two-party, elite politics that sets in when the NDP is weak. Politics that stacks the deck against lower-income and middle class Canadians.

Surprisingly decent article from the Sun: http://www.torontosun.com/2016/02/21/mulcair-not-ambrose-holding-liberals-to-account

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1. The Tories have made QP all about them

They have no intention on actually digging and holding the Libs to account, they merely want to push the same agenda they always did. Oil is in the crapper and there's some serious issue out there, yet in the first bit of this year the Tories often open QP with a question about "supporting pipelines". Really? That's your priority? To get a cheap answer to a complex issue that is currently going through a bureacratic process?

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. So true

They should have been banished to 2 seats in the broom closet, so that we could have honest debates about pulling this country out of its current quagmire.