Bob Rae accuses Tories of perverting foreign policy - The Globe and Mail
Saving his strongest language for the Conservatives, Mr. Rae said the Harper government has “tarnished” Canada’s reputation as a leader on human rights. He asserted, too, that the Tories will “embarrass” Canadians in Cancun at the upcoming UN climate change conference as they are sending a “part-time Environment Minister.”
Indeed, John Baird was put into the Environment portfolio recently after Jim Prentice stepped down to take a senior position at the CIBC. But he also still serves as Government House Leader.
“The problem is a dangerous cocktail of too many poor ideas and too few people of talent and ability,” Mr. Rae asserted. “It’s a ‘captain control’ government that sees the world in simplistic terms: good guys and bad guys, more money for weapons, less for aid, and on it goes.”
In an interview after his speech, Mr. Rae said he has encountered raised eyebrows and questions from both political friends and foes about his work with the government. “There is an obligation on those of us in public life to put some issues beyond partisanship and something like that seems to me to be very clear,” he said.
His speech was harsh – and it was not the only one. Two other Liberal MPs, Dominic LeBlanc and Siobhan Coady, were delivering similar messages in Ottawa and Halifax.
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