Let Iggy be Iggy

Mike Storeshaw is not a stupid person, he is just visually impaired when it comes to things not Conservative.

Case in point. Ignatieff supported the Liberal/NDP coalition created by Dion and Layton. He said at the time, "I support the (coalition) accord because it's fiscally responsible, it provides responsible economic leadership in tough times and it also conserves the basic principles of national unity, equality that our party has always believed in."

According to Storeshaw, written in the current Hill Times, the statement "is not open for parsing or interpretation".

Hey Mike, the statement does not need to be interpreted, it just needs to be viewed in the context and time frame in which it was delivered.

The time frame was shortly after Harper decided to deliver a fiscal update by ignoring Canadians and the looming economic problems and focusing instead on trying to destroy his competition. Was that fiscally responsible? Was that responsible economic leadership? Was calling the coalition an unholy alliance with separatists a good thing for national unity?

The coalition, something that I did not feel entirely comfortable with, offered a program of economic stimulus, was priced out, regionally balanced and preserved our fragile unity. Now read the Iggy quote in that context.

This is the same "pundit" that recently defended selective briefings to selected press outlet with respect to the Cons dispute with Election Canada over the In and Out Scandal (Remember that one? It is still not resolved!)

Storeshaw stated in the Hill Times that,  "The field on which we all play is one where the media seek out conflict and controversy, and the quicker and simpler it is the better. Any political organization would understand that trying to communicate the meaning of hundreds of pages of documents in this environment is not something that lends itself to six-second sound bites, squeezed in between reporters shouting questions.

“So I suppose that by inviting some reporters to a more private setting to explain some of our disagreements with Elections Canada, our party was trying to inject some facts into the discussion."

That statement is not open to parsing or interpretation either, Mike.   You are simply saying that Cons will only talk with parliamentary reporters who are too dumb to read long documents. The smart ones will be ignored as irrelevant.

Storeshaw should apologize for being a bit cloudy in the eyes.