Reply #16: dream on

[iverglas]

This notion that the Liberal Party of Canada is "progressive" (at least by any meaning of the word that those of us who were progressive sometime before this millennium would understand) is a strange one. I just can never figure out where it comes from.

The fact that Dean has accepted this invitation actually doesn't speak very well of him, in fact. But then I'm not under any illusion that the Democratic Party is any more progressive than the Liberal Party.

You have a two-party system in which your choices are limited. We don't, and while progressives may sometimes vote Liberal for strategic reasons (I've done it once in over 30 years of voting, myself, the same number of times as I have voted Tory), progressives are not Liberals and Liberals are not progressives

We in Canada do not have the same tiny political spectrum that exists in the US and we do have a choice. The spectrum here may be relatively narrow as well, and the choice not what some might like it to be, but none of that makes the Liberal Party anything but what it is: economically neoliberal in government (that isn't a good thing) and an opportunistic, corrupt election-winning machine.