Any 'Liberal' (voter, member or MP) who would join the CPC because of a coalition/merger was never a Liberal

This isn't new, but after a few discussions with various people the title of this entry is something that needs to be said.

With stories like this and this, all we really need to know is that the Canada Stephen Harper envisions is one that has failed America. Anyone who seeks to remould Canada in the image of George W. Bush's America and shares views with 'the tea baggers,' isn't a Liberal, lower or upper case.

Coyne describes the Liberal Party as a big tent, but we're not, really. We're a party, a group of people, who support 'reality-based' policy that works. We don't want or seek to govern by ideology, but rather desire a stronger, better Canada. If that can be achieved by cutting spending and balancing budgets (fiscal conservatism), then that's what we do. If we need to fund day cares to allow for equality of women and better off children, then that's what we do.

Where Coyne has it right is that we have lost our sense of direction. We also seem to have lost this idea that we govern based on what works. And until we come to grips with this and start to rectify things, we may be only a stones throw away from the collapse that Coyne predicts is now inevitable.