More disturbing hints of right-wing slide for Canada's Liberals.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://www.politicswatch.com/peterson-jan26-2004.htm

Liberal minister praises Mulroney


OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jack Layton says Trade Minister Jim Peterson's praise of former prime minister Brian Mulroney in a recent interview with the National Post is further proof that Prime Minister Paul Martin is moving Canada to the right.

In an interview with the National Post's Diane Francis at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Peterson praised Mulroney for entering Canada into free trade agreements with the U.S.

"We have one of the best stories around," Peterson said. "We're global. Right now, there is $100-billion more invested by Canadians abroad than is invested by foreigners in Canada. What did it was free trade and I credit Brian Mulroney with this. He deserves the credit of all Canadians."

In an interview with PoliticsWatch, Layton said he wasn't surprised by the comments.

"This is more proof that Paul Martin is taking the Liberal Party away from any kind of a balanced view and over toward this notion that whatever's good for the corporations is good for Canada," he said. "And it turns out that this is not true."

[ithacan]

1. if the right can't win on their own, they coopt the "left"

this is what happened in the US, a bit differently, but the DLC is clearly the tool of the right/corporate interests, and their mission has been to destroy the progressive traditions of the Dems.

Seems like that might be a bit harder to pull off in a parliamentary system.