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There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them!

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A BS (Belinda Stronach) Moment

Nearly 400 employees at Tenatronics Ltd., in Newmarket were told this week that their plant is shutting down no later than November 13, 2006.

With a sizeable layoff about to happen in her riding, one would expect that Bewildering Belinda would react in some manner, but so far there has only been the Sounds of Silence.

On BS's website she lists her current priorities as being; improving health care and protecting our quality of life (tell that to the men and women of Tenatronics).

On the website you will also find her hosting the Battle of Yonge Street charity hockey game (a good thing), a two day womens policy retreat in Aurora (will hopefully have economic sustainability and development on the agenda), and democratizing the Liberal Party (an impossible thing).

What's going on young lady? A major employer shuts its doors, a sizeable number of your constituents have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, and you're nowhere to be found!

BS claims to be a "Strong Voice for Newmarket/Aurora" .... 400 men and women lose their jobs and she goes into that quiet night without even a peep or whisper ... perhaps it's laryngitis!

MICHAEL ARE YOU GOING TO ROW THIS BOAT ASHORE?

In the latest issue of Maclean's magazine Michael Ignatieff delivers the IGNATIEFF MANIFESTO which reveals how he'd change the country.

Now let me see if I understand this. In the Gospel according to Michael he would;

• implement a nation building agenda by unifying us as a people through four basic priorities; strengthening a sustaibable economy, strengthening the spine of our citizenship (what the hell does that mean?), strengthening our unity as a people, and strengthening our place in the world.

• reduce child poverty, gaps in Aboriginal health and education, clean up our lakes and rivers, generate jobs jn Canada's regions.

• create a national infrastructure to help Canadians to make their economic performance world-class and develop a national prosperity strategy.

• work with provinces to eliminate all remaining barriers of income and family circumstance to post secondary education, especially for Aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, visible minorities and Canadians living outside large urban centres.

• provide income security for farmers, enviromrntal and energy policies, a national food policy, draw welfare dependents back into the labour force, income security for all Canadians, immigrants are more successfully integrated into our society, a strong federation, to recognize Quebec and Aboriginal peoples as nations within the fabric of Canada, access to public health care, increase foreign assistance.

• We should make ourselves the governance specialists of the emerging international order. (David, are you alluding to a New World Order ... tsk, tsk, tsk

Phew .... 'dem's a lot of promises and there were still more in the MACLEANS article which I didn't post because, quite frankly, my fingers were getting tired.

Did you miss anyone or anything David?

Mr. Ignatieff, I must say that I'm disappointed in you. For someone who has been away from Canada for as long as you have, your vision for our GREAT COUNTRY is the same old tired, "a chicken in every pot" rhetoric which the Liberals have been foisting upon Canada for as long as I remember.

Most of the issues which you have identified as needing change are broken down and dysfunctional in the first place because of the Liberals .... not so?

History shows that Canada has had a federal Liberal government for 83 years out of the 139 years since Confederation. You folks have had 83 years to get it right!

Michael, it's time to row the Liberal boat ashore for repairs before you ask Canadians to ride in it once more. Perhaps Canada Steamship Lines will offer a deal of some kind!