AGAIN! O'Connor doesn't know what is going on!

[Argus]

Perhaps people should examine the alternative the Liberal Party proposes. Their defence critic - in their "shadow cabinet" is one Denis Coderre.

Between 1993 and 1996, he was deputy executive director for the Quebec wing of the Liberal Party. His involvement meant Mr. Coderre was called as witness at the Gomery Inquiry into the sponsorship scandal and his name popped up frequently during testimony. Before getting elected in 1997,Mr. Coderre was hired to do public relations by Groupe Polygone, a firm that went on to receive $40-million in government sponsorship funds, including $330,000 for a non-existent hunting and fishing show in 2000.

So the Liberals, as their defense critic, offer up a sleazy little gutter politician like coderre, who some say is actually anti-military.

Denis Coderre - Defence Minister?

-Lincoln and Laurie Dinning were just wrapping up an emotional press conference on Parliament Hill, at which they complained that the government had covered less than half the funeral costs for their son, Matthew, who was killed in Afghanistan last year.

Suddenly, a voice piped up from the back of the podium: "If I may..." and a diminutive figure elbowed his way to the microphone, past the towering Mr. Dinning. All that was visible was a head until the cameras panned down to take in Denis Coderre, the rambunctious Liberal defence critic, who launched into a partisan attack on the Defence Minister, Gordon O'Connor.

Mr. O'Connor, if he was watching, must have breathed a sigh of relief as the sympathy drained from the room. Mr. Coderre seemed far more interested in acquiring a political scalp than in the iniquities of military funeral compensation.

"far more interested in acquiring a political scalp than in the iniquities of military funeral compensation" - one could say that about all Liberals.