Layton puts homeless on front pages

[maplesyrup]

Layton puts homeless on front pages

And Cathy Crowe, a street nurse who is co-founder of the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, agrees with Layton's comments that affordable housing cuts are leading to an increasing rate of death for the homeless.

"I'm not really sure why people are so surprised at the comment," she said. "It's not something that hasn't been said before," says Crowe, who said no one knows that exact total number of homeless deaths but there has been a noticeable increase.

She has no problem laying the blame for the homeless deaths with the Liberals.

"No one is saying … that Paul Martin went out and purposely murdered people," she said. "But it is acceptable to talk about the outcome of social policy."

While she agrees with the Liberal spin machine's assertion that the Mulroney government's 1993 axing of the affordable housing program created the problem, she said that the Liberals did not do anything to remedy it.

[August1991]

Front Page? Check out what the Toronto Star did with this Layton "issue":

Homeless People according to the Toronto Star

[Dennis]

Layton puts homeless on front pages

He did no such thing. He put himself on the front pages and, in the process, showed himself to be 1) a hardened left-wing zealot 2) an amateur federal politician.

The Hard Left loves what Layton said. But that sais as much about the Hard Left and the NDP than it does anything.