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   Monday, July 28, 2003

I KNEW PIERRE TRUDEAU, AND YOU, MADAM...

Just what are you supposed to think when a viable alternative to the conservative politics of "big-L-certainly-not-small-L" Liberal Paul Martin comes along and it's spearheaded by...Sheila Copps? Today's Toronto Star outlined her policy challenge to Martin's in-the-bag Liberal leadership bid and it's great -- progressive initiatives for more affordable housing and municipal infrastructure, and aims to eliminate child poverty and provide international goodwill measures to "build bridges to the world," rather than Martin's proposal to cooperate with the ludicrous and costly U.S. missle defense program.

So far, so good, but the big problem isn't Copps' leaning to the left or even the inevitability of Paul Martin's win -- Copps herself is the issue. I suspect she's hoping that Liberal voters have forgotten about that crazy time when she promised to resign if the GST wasn't scrapped. Remember how she didn't quit when the GST predictably wasn't removed, then quit after everyone screamed for her head, and then immediately ran for re-election and won because there was little competition? Boy, those were wacky times! Say what you like about how fair or unfair all that was, but the fact remains that, to the average Canadian, Sheila has less credibility than an Amway salesman.

This is particularly unfortunate for me, since I agree with most of her policies, and ironic in that everyone still picks her apart on her past record while ignoring how the unstoppable Paul Martin is our new Mulroney-lite. Perhaps no one notices this comparison because Sheila's too busy likening herself to Trudeau?

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