How Harper Cornered Opponents
One of the best articles about last night's debate regarding Canada's Afghan mission is written by James Travers in today's Toronto Star:
"In the rough game that promises majority government as its grand prize, Canadian soldiers fighting and dying in Kandahar now look disturbingly like pawns. That's a shame all federal political parties share today, even though they share it unequally.
Forget for a moment who said what to whom in last night's rushed debate over extending the current Afghanistan mission until 2009. Forget, too, that the minority Conservative government narrowly won a highly charged but non-binding vote 149 to 145.
What matters more is that Prime Minister Stephen Harper cornered his opponents, cynically threatening an election over the second year of the two-year commitment, and they responded with a narrow partisan debate that intersected only intermittently with broad national interest."
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Read full article here.
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