I do take issue with your comment “It is the social conservative attitudes that turn off our more educated citizens”, are you saying that an educated person cannot have social conservative attitudes, or vice versa? Because if you are, you are very, very wrong. I consider myself an educated person, I also do not believe in SSM (although, if two gay persons want to have a unification ceremony, I have no issues), Abortion after first term, feminism (as defined by the feminist lobby), gun control (as definied by the gun lobby, judges letting criminals off or any of the other lobbies, advocacies, etc. etc. that form the so called “social conservative attitudes”.

Touche!!!!

I couldn’t agree more – It is interesting how the left continues to debrade the right, yet their own foibles and flops are ignored.

Davidson – please explain how your comment about Hitler has any bearing on this conversation. In order to save time, I will answer my own question – you are obviously comparing the conservative party to Hitler, however, for the life of me I cannot figure out why. How on earth do you even contemplate that the CPC could remotely be contemplating wiping a race of people off the earth. Please enlighten us so we can have a real debate.

I get so tired of liberals making statements with no backup, no facts. But I guess that is the liberal way – make unfair, derogatory and libelous statements in the name of scare mongering. It seems to be the liberal way.

You mean like grade 12 Belinda?

I present below the CV of the “Loney Right Mr. Toews”.

Mr. Toews attended the University of Winnipeg, and received a Law Degree from the University of Manitoba. In 1977, he became a member of the Bar of Manitoba.

Mr. Toews practiced law with the provincial Department of Justice from 1976 to 1991. In that capacity, he served as a Crown Prosecutor in Brandon, Manitoba, and in Winnipeg as Legal Counsel to various government departments, including Labour, Workplace Safety and Health, the Manitoba Labour Board, the Director of Child Welfare, and various other government boards and commissions.

In 1987, Mr. Toews was appointed Director of Constitutional Law for the Province of Manitoba, and represented the Attorney General in many important constitutional cases at all levels of court, including a number of Supreme Court of Canada cases. He acted as legal counsel to the Premier of Manitoba at the Meech Lake Accord discussions in 1990. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1991.

As for Mr. Day, perhaps he has had a less illustrious formal academic career, but his public service record requires no apologies.

Is it not time we focused on debating policy issues and directions that separate Canadian Political Parties as opposed to reducing the argument to simplistic generalizations on a personal level?