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Except when one actually reads the story and not their own like or dislike for Layton (for one, I always thought of him as a bit of a used car salesman).As for the rest of the post, you mgith have a point - except for the fact it applies, one way or another, to all political leaders.

Are YOU certain otherwise? After all, you may know something that I don't. I only rely on the account of events that was given to SUN TV.

Correction. Tommy Douglas proposed sterelization for the mentally disabled while writng his MA thesis. Later one, as a politician, he never proposed the idea, and in fact rejected two proposals from the province's Board of Health to enforce sterelization. Unlike some people on this site, he seems to have been able to change his opinion.

Even Kinsella admits he didn't want to touch it then. It's more toxic to anyone leaking the story than to Layton - especially considering that there is nothing indicating that Layton was engaging in an illegal act. Also, I find it telling that, apparently, nothing new has surfaced from 2 years ago. surely, at least one journalist in the country must have thought that they should dig deeper.

What scandal? He went for a therapeutic massage and didn't do proper scrutiny.

Interesting quote from Kinsella, about the fact Layton was on the City of Toronto's budget committee at the time he was detained. Technically, he wasn't detained. Most importantly, Layton was elected in 1994 as a member of METRO council.

By Liberal we are to understand anybody who doesn't praise the Conservative government day in and day out. Or perhaps you have a problem with the scrutiny that the government is subjected too? It's the government. They will be subjected to more scrutiny - that goes with the territoy. If it were the NDP in power, I would expect exactly the same, and I am quite sure that's what would happen. As for the CBC being biased towrds the left - which media first mentioned that the NDP constitution is nowhere to be found on their Website? Yep, that's right.

Interesting that legislation publicly put forward by the NDP is a form of hidden agenda.

The NDP should indeed have its constitution on its website. No doubt about it. Thanks for the National Post and biased CBC to report on it.

I haven`t seen anything to convince me otherwise. But then, I am not coming at it from a view point that even asking questions to a Conservative leader is a form of bias. Now, your turn. Your contention that the CTV is biased against the Conservatives stems from... all those years they had Mike Duffy?

Which discussion? Not seen it (not saying it didn't happened), and quite frankly I didn't miss anything.But well, that or the "OMG... Ignatieff's wife is not a citizen" non-sense. Yes, what about it? Like choices of clothing by other politicians of other stripes have never been made. Remember the Duceppe picture with during a visit as a cheese factories in the 1990's? (mind you, he DID look stupid). When a politician makes that kind of joke, they should not been complaining is some media commentators jump on them. Do you really think that the meida would be silent if someone else was doing it?

I would find that more than sad. Problem is, that's not what happened.

That won't be difficult.

Indeed. As he proves every time he opens his mouth, the word idiot is a gross understatement when applied to him.

Well... I actually prefer news when it comes to matters regarding the way this great country of ours should be governed. Infotainment is fine when talking about Lohan, not Harper or Layton.

Ironic, isn't it, that the census is a big bad intrusion by the big bad Government in our private lives, but it is perfectly legitimate for it to spy on internet or phone conversation without first obtaining a warrant.

Nice try putting in my mouth something I didn,t say. Now, don't be afraid of telling the truth. No media would be biased in your view if they were praising the virtues of the Conservative parties all day and all night. The waffergate should have been dropped the second what actually happened was clarified. The bathroom-gate was not worth the ink spent on it. But to use this as a proof of a big leftist anti-Conservative bias from the big bad media... Better come with something a lot better.

Better a lame, biassed and sleezoid media outlet, right?

And some is anybody advocating a dictatorial err I mean strong authoritarian government, don't you agree?

As long as they are clear in where they take their source from, I do not have one bit of a problem with it.

And it is past statements by Harper and members of the Conservative parties that have lead to claims he plans things he is not mentioning. Quite frankly, hyper-ventilated rhetorics like "Layton is a communist", "Liberals are telling parents how to raise their children" or "Harper is a dictator" raise more chuckles than anything else from me. The type of personal, sleezoid attack and turning a personal non-story into what it is not that we have witnessed since yesterday is another story.

All media tends to mostly report polls they have commissioned. Big deal.

Well, the idea that the SUN has uncovered something newsworthy is ridiculous too, yet you keep insisting the media sullies itself even more.

The media's job is to report on things that actually matter. It is not to waste ink talking about Harper bladder problems, or to jump in the gutter.

Well... she would have been able to warn him against certain specific establishments. Quite frankly, I think the media is missing the real story here. All along, Olivia Chow has worked to get her husband in a compromising position so she could get his job.