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Well, maybe that might have actual truth if Liberal Justic minister Colter was not so right of centre. And he was the one overseeing judicial appointments, and also implemented the changes that harper destroyed that would have made the judiciary actually for sure non-partisan.

The fact that the Liberals made it so the judiciary could not be partisan, and Harper promptly got rid of it says much about Harper's wanting to stack the judiciary with partisans who have absolutely NO skill with which to determine judicial appointments..

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Well, maybe that might have actual truth if Liberal Justic minister Colter was not so right of centre.

He was right of Fidel Castro perhaps.

Perhaps.

But the only people who would describe Cotler as "right of centre" are people so far from the centre themselves they can no longer recognize where it stands.

The fact that the Liberals made it so the judiciary could not be partisan

By, like, appointing former Liberal MPs and failed candidates, party bagmen and supporters, and lawyers who donated free legal services to the Liberal Party, you mean?

Yes, I can see how that would make sure the judiciary wasn't partisan.

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No, actually she did not quit because of anti-semitic bigotry within the Liberals, she quit because the Liberal Party's stance on Israel's bombing of Lebanon.

If she, or her husband Irwin Cotler Liberal MP, felt there was anti-semetic bigotry going on in the Liberal Party, Cotler would've quit or walked across the foor.

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Colter actually abstained because he did NOT agree with Harper's wanting to extend it the way it was either.

CBC News

Before the vote, Cotler said he could not comfortably support either side. He said the position could be taken that the provisions have never been implemented and therefore they should be sunsetted.

"Or you can take the position as I've taken," he said. "The fact that [the provisions] have not been used means that they have not been abused, but they may still be needed."

That fence must be really hard on the ass.

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Cotler's wife was a longtime Liberal who quit a few months back due to the rising level of anti-semitic bigotry she was seeing in that party.

Cotlers' wife was against gay marriage as well. She had been upset by a few measures like this.

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Well, maybe that might have actual truth if Liberal Justic minister Colter was not so right of centre.

He was right of Fidel Castro perhaps.

Perhaps.

But the only people who would describe Cotler as "right of centre" are people so far from the centre themselves they can no longer recognize where it stands.

Hopefully I will remember this quote when Cotler crosses the floor :)

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