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30 December 2005

Signs of fundamental change

As someone who has been around the Liberal Party of Canada in one capacity or another for a while, I find it odd that something seems to have escaped most people.

Like the Conservatives, for example, who are actually campaigning against Jean Chretien.

The Liberal Party under Paul Martin is not the Liberal Party of even three or four years ago.

In fact, there are two perfect examples of just how much has changed.

Two of Mr. Chretien's staunchest supporters - Sheila Copps and Warren Kinsella - are working to defeat the Liberals in this election and, in the case of Ms. Copps, providing strategic advice to a Conservative candidate.

What better evidence can one find that the Liberal Party has changed at its most basic level than that these two have decided to back other political parties, either directly or indirectly?

I say to you: the facts speak for themselves.