What a swell guy.
If I were a curmudgeon I'd definitely vote for him.
Tom Mulcair defends praise for Margaret Thatcher's 'winds of liberty and liberalism'
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair was forced Wednesday to defend flattering comments he made over a decade ago about the conservative policies of former U.K. prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a day after a video from 2001 including the comments was the water-cooler talk in Quebec.
As a member of the National Assembly in Quebec under the Liberal government of Jean Charest, Mulcair credited the success of England's economy under Thatcher's Conservative Party to the "winds of liberty and liberalism" that "swept across the markets in England."
Mulcair made the comments in April 2001 in the context of a parliamentary commission where he sought to discredit the interventionist tendencies of a separatist government led by Bernard Landry.
"A government should never pretend it can replace the private market. It does not work," Mulcair said in 2001. "It didn't work in England. Up until Thatcher's time, that's what they tried, the government stuck its nose everywhere."
On Wednesday, Mulcair defended his comments as an example of good public administration.
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http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/t...r-s-winds-of-liberty-and-liberalism-1.3196265
If I were a curmudgeon I'd definitely vote for him.
Tom Mulcair defends praise for Margaret Thatcher's 'winds of liberty and liberalism'
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair was forced Wednesday to defend flattering comments he made over a decade ago about the conservative policies of former U.K. prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a day after a video from 2001 including the comments was the water-cooler talk in Quebec.
As a member of the National Assembly in Quebec under the Liberal government of Jean Charest, Mulcair credited the success of England's economy under Thatcher's Conservative Party to the "winds of liberty and liberalism" that "swept across the markets in England."
Mulcair made the comments in April 2001 in the context of a parliamentary commission where he sought to discredit the interventionist tendencies of a separatist government led by Bernard Landry.
"A government should never pretend it can replace the private market. It does not work," Mulcair said in 2001. "It didn't work in England. Up until Thatcher's time, that's what they tried, the government stuck its nose everywhere."
On Wednesday, Mulcair defended his comments as an example of good public administration.
...more..
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/politics/t...r-s-winds-of-liberty-and-liberalism-1.3196265