Defining opposition
No, I’m not kidding. I looked it up. And this is how the dictionary defines “opposition” — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating. Do you think Liberal leader Stephane Dion has a dictionary? Maybe he’s still reading it, but is still in the “OK’s.” That seems to be his answer for everything. I blogged a couple weeks back about my disappointment with the Liberals for walking out on a vote in the Commons on the Conservative crime bill. As if Dion simply said, “OK troops, let’s leave rather than do our jobs.” Then came the motion to extend the mission to Afghanistan. “OK,” says Dion, “as long as you make this one tiny amendment.” And so the government survived again. Next came Tuesday’s budget, and Dion could not “OK” that quickly enough. The budget itself was just that — OK. But Dion says he sees nothing in it that should bring down the government so he, and the Liberals, will give it their collective “OK.”
I have it on fairly good authority that Dion met with Prime Minister Harper pre-budget, and agreed in advance that he would support it. And a little birdie has also told me that Dion wanted to put the Liberal election machine in motion two weeks ago, but the machine did not respond. And so Dion sways in the breeze, appearing as though the only thing he opposes…is being in Opposition.