Liberals Call on Quebeckers to Vote for the Bloc

In a matter of days in this election campaign, we have gone from the scary, to the shameless, to the bizarre and now to the ridiculous.

Labour leader Buzz Hargrove says Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s attitude toward the provinces is essentially a separatist approach.”If you devolve all the powers to the provinces, what do you have left? His view of the country is a separatist view,” Hargrove said as he campaigned alongside Paul Martin.

He said Quebec voters should choose the Bloc Quebecois over the Conservatives.

“Anything to stop the Tories.”

Buzz is right about one thing. If the central government devolves all its powers, there would be no more than an empty shell left. But the labour boss fails to establish a connection from Harper’s more respectful attitude toward provincial jurisdictions to the complete devolution that he suggests Harper espouses. A labour boss being dishonest. Imagine that!

Flipping from the dishonest to the ridiculous, and please note that Hardgrove was alongside the prime minister when he spoke, Buzz said that Quenec voters should opt for the Bloc rather than to vote Conservative. Ummh. Who exactly is the separatist here lobbying for a Bloc vote?
Anything to stop the Tories. Anything? What exactly does that mean? Surely Buzz is not suggesting that the Liberals are going to engage in Jimmy Hoffa type of activities when he says “anything.” Exactly how far is the union boss prepared to go to stop the Tories?

Earlier in the campaign, Harper suggested that the Martinistas would rather have the separatists ruling (or representing) Quebeckers because it served Liberal purposes. Effecting indignation, Martin demanded an apology. But Harper was exactly right, and Buzz now provides the hard evidence.

Crossposted from Civitatensis.ca