Buzz
One day after Jack Layton announced his auto industry policy, Canadian Auto Workers prez Buzz Hargrove has pulled his traditional support for the NDP and is backing Paul Martin.
This is a little puzzling, considering how Hargrove and Jack Layton together wrote the NDP amendments to the Liberal budget last spring.
I'm reminded of Preston Manning's old line about Jean Chretien: "In my province, the one that knows me best, I got almost all the seats. In the province that knows the Prime Minister the best, he didn't do nearly as well".
What is it about Layton that Hargrove can't live with?
posted by Road Hammer @ 3:25 PM
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6 Comments:
I agree that this is puzzling. Buzz Hargrove complained bitterly that for years the NDP was an insufficient vehicle for social justice. Now the NDP has a true social democrat leading it and he backs a corporate hack who slaughtered all his sacred cows.
What a strange man.
Unless he thinks that Harper is going to win. Then it would make sense.
Sorry, I've been thinking about this. Is Buzz Hargrove sufficiently popular for Paul Martin to want his endorsement? I doubt that many union members vote the way he wants and isn't there some opportunity for Harper to rail against the Martin-Hargrove-Layton Forces of Dark and Evil?
It's confusing any way you cut it. Martin donning a CAW jacket? I don't think that the sponsorship scandal places into question any commitment to the notion of an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
I'm still thinking about this. I am now convinced that a promise has been made that a Liberal government will pay any price to keep both Oshawa plants open and maybe even the St. Thomas Ford plant, for which a closure will likely be announced in the coming weeks.
Sorry ... what I meant to say was that the sponsorship scandal does indeed place into question any commitment to the notion of an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
And as I said, if what you say is true, Hayes, then what we are going to see is exactly what I referred to in my original post ... subsidies for those who make $35 per hour to screw in a panel.
And even more for overtime.
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