According to the Globe & Mail, the Conservative Party is testing the NDP's pledge to seek more civility and respect between members of Parliament" by launching a "blistering attack" on the NDP.
What was that blistering attack? International Trade Minister Ed Fast said that the policies the NDP have said they want to put forward would be bad for business.
Now, let's compare.
Mr. Fast called Jack Layton's party “reflexively and ideologically anti-trade,” accusing it of acting contrary to the interests of “hard-working Canadians."
So, according to the Globe & Mail this is what one could consider to be a "blistering attack". Never mind that article author Steven Chase was reduced to cutting and pasting one or two word fragments as quotes to make his point that this was some kind of "blistering attack".
Now, let's compare that to what Jack Layton said a couple of days ago about the Harper Government's response to the flooding in Quebec:
"His policy is to not help people. He said he's not there to do the cleanup or something to that effect. That is an attitude that does not respect the population."
And...
"And the idea that they don't want to interfere with the private sector . what is this? You want to promote the private sector to make money off the misery of people.
"What kind of an attitude is that? Is that the beginning of the attitude we're going to see on the privatization of health care and the privatization of all kinds of things which should be done by the government?
And those were just straight up, full sentence quotes of Jack Layton. Didn't even have to cut it down to one or two word fragments to frame what he said.
Geez... I don't know. I can't figure out which is more of a "blistering attack". Mind you it's not like we expect such incivility from Mr. Layton, the least civil MP in the House of Commons.
There really is only one clear element to this entire brouhaha involved in a blistering attack.
That would be the editorial staff of the Globe & Mail.
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