A Federalist of Convenience and the distortions the media wants you to believe

Here are two scenarios - see if you think they are significantly different.

In the first, an individual is a member of a separatist party at the federal level a month before becoming a candidate for national office. She rapidly switches allegiances, then quickly ascends to leadership of a federal party, while still retaining membership in a provincial, communist-based separatist party.

In the second scenario, a person resigned from the same federal-level separatist party a full six and a half years before being elected to office for a national federalist party, then was appointed to a position as a junior Minister.

Most people would think the differences between these two situations are rather major.

But some journalists at The Globe and Mail, anxious to try to embarrass the Conservative government, want people to believe that these conditions contain no significant discrepancies.

Taking it their usual preposterous step further, the ideological fanatics and uninsightful polemicists at NDP-linked rabble.ca want you to believe the situations are virtually identical and is evidence of hypocrisy by the Harper Conservatives.

What this appears to be, is evidence of the idiocy and desperation of the NDP to attempt to rehabilitate its hopelessly damaged reputation after the revelation that its new leader was a Bloc Quebecios member only two months before her election as an NDP MP.  But more striking is that, even after being elected to Parliament and even after being appointed to the party's top position by ailing leader Jack Layton, Nycole Turmel was still a member of the communist, separatist Quebec Solidaire.

Bloc l'Orange Leader Turmel

Conservative Transport Minister Denis Lebel had quit the Bloc almost seven years before running for Parliament. It was more than a full year later before he was made Minister of State for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the region of Quebec. In contrast, Turmel gave the preposterous excuses that she joined the two separatist parties, to which she donated funds, to support friends.

Most Canadians don't confine their friendships to people who support the same political party, but don't feel compelled to join a party that conflicts with their beliefs to "support" them.

It's no surprise that Turmel is a federalist of convenience.

It's no surprise that the NDP is so incompetent that it would make such a person its leader.

But what is disappointing is that the antagonism towards Harper evidently is so great that some people in the media will sell the future of the country down the river to try to sink him.


UPDATE: Lorne Gunther at the National Post points out what escaped Adrian Morrow at the Globe