Desnethe-Misinippi-Churchill River
Dear Editor:
What an interesting situation in the Desnethe-Misinippi-Churchill River by-election! A Tory who was never a Tory is running as a sort-of Tory while a Tory who was a Tory leadership hopeful is now a Liberal who may not be allowed to run as a Liberal.
Tory is, of course, the word reluctantly accepted as the cost of pretending to be a Conservative by the CA’s Harper because he was forced to do so, he said, by the inevitability of media describing a party calling itself Conservative Tory even though they know it is not.
Perhaps it would be better if the faux Tory run as the Reformer, the Liberal who is a Tory runs as a Tory Tory, and the Liberal who the Liberal Leader wants runs as a Liberal.
“Canada’s New Government” has unleashed a Monty Python sketch and called it national politics via its specious claims of credibility and it seems to be catching on. Let’s hope no one notices.
Brian Marlatt
White Rock, BC
