'Bob Rae' is what Jack Layton government would look like, Tories say

Posted by Robert Benzie, Queen's Park Bureau Chief

KINGSTON – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has a fresh line of attack on surging NDP Leader Jack Layton thanks to an enthusiastic supporter here.

“Friends, what would an NDP government, backed by Mr. Ignatieff and the Bloc Quebecois, actually look like?” Harper rhetorically asked about 300 cheering Tories at Minos Village Restaurant.

“Bob Rae,” shouted an elderly man.

“That’s a good answer,” said Harper, making a rare deviation from his carefully crafted stump speech script.

The senior’s pithy response clearly resonated with Harper, who stepped up his criticism of Layton, stoking fears of a coalition of a coalition propped up by Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals and Gilles Duceppe’s Bloc Quebecois.

“The risk? A very real risk, another minority Parliament with an NDP government – exactly like the man said – like you had in Ontario.”

Speaking above the boos aimed at Rae, he continued: “Raising spending enormously, raising taxes, raising prices, killing jobs, killing the recovery.”

Rae, of course, governed Ontario from 1990 to 1995 but later abandoned the NDP and is now the Liberal MP for Toronto Centre.

Outside the Kingston rally, a few dozen protesters loudly heckled Harper, banging on the side of marked campaign buses and swearing at them.

Comments

[Clyde Gilmour]

The NDP regime will bankrupt Canada in five years and then we will see whose laughing. Only the rich. Thanks Iggy for bringing Canada to it's knees and then buggering off. To all that vote NDP we know you will only do it once. Get to know the whereabouts of the local food bank if people even contribute then. Hell is ahead.Prepare your self for increased unemployment, crime and taxes.
Nice.

[Robert Wiseman]

Before you vote on Monday please watch the video at the link below. It is a clip put up by Peter Russell, a constitutional expert who comments on the implications of the Conservatives being 'rewarded' for the lapses of the Conservatives. We have had our citizens killed and wounded in defence of our democracy and we don't even understand it well enough to be outraged about contempt findings in Parliament. Please watch, especially if you are thinking about voting Conservative, and think seriously about your vote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEsXSb_JJSU

[Bob_prole@yahoo.ca]

Is "Mike Harris" what a Harper Conservative majority government would look like?