Reading the Liberal Pink Book
something on page 24 of the Liberal Pink Book leaped out at me:
Preventing Violence Against Women
Under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, women are increasingly at risk for domestic abuse and violence.
It’s pretty sloppy writing at best, deliberate partisan muddying on a serious issue at worst.
While the Pink Book doesn’t go on to say that Paul Martin supports child pornography and thus this gaffe will not be covered with the same vigor by the press, it deserves to be called out.
Consider that this sentence is similar:
Under Jean Chretien’s Liberal government, Canadians were murdered in the thousands.
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October 21st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
This is so typical of hypocritical Liberals! Who needs Liberals anymore, really? #roft #cdnpoli
October 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
''Under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, women are increasingly at risk for domestic abuse and violence.''
Wow,
Did Iffy endorse this message, without the immunity of the HoC ?
October 21st, 2009 at 3:27 pm
This is the end game for the Liberals, it's gotta be. That statement is outrageous in the extreme and should be litigious.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Oh, and the media had to choose between 2 Liberal events,
'a door knob' and a 'pink book',
Iffy lost, the media covered Easter trying to embarrass the Cons…LOL
October 21st, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Why? Does the 'Sexist Pink Book' qualify this extreme and irrational position?
Do they dissect the position of their beloved Trudeau when his govt in Oct/71, decided under the guidance of Solicitor General Jean Pierre Goyer that the governments intentions was to stress rehabilitation of the CRIMINAL (abuser??) even though it may pose a threat to the public (victim???) ?
Do the Liberal women in caucus, not look in the mirror and say, it was our party and our hero that let abusers, abuse without consequences fitting their crime?
Of course not. Their memory is selective and short. It has the span of about 5 minutes.
Shame on them!
October 21st, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Wasn't the 'sexist pink book' the brainstorm of floor crosser, Belinda Stronach? Do these women (Liberals) ever come up with an original idea?
Why blame men for everything? I am really sick of that part of the abuse crap!!
AS a WOMAN, I STAND UP for you guys!! This is BS!
It was a WOMAN, that abused a senior citizen here in Calgary and a WOMAN that tried to break into my home last week.
Get over it Liberals! Woman, can be criminals too!
October 21st, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Even Iffy admits this is the 3rd reiteration of the pink book. It would interesting to go back to the first two and see how many of those issues identified were resolved under the governments of Chretien/Martin. Want to bet not many!
This needs to be examined Stephen to continue to prove that the Libs are hypocrites and all talk and no action.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:42 pm
It was also Ruby Dhalla and her family that abused the nannies if I am not mistaken.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Allegedly
October 21st, 2009 at 5:21 pm
The 'sexist pink book' was launched as volume 1 in Nov 2006 but you are 100% right, what did 13 years of Liberal govt do to change the kazillion issues that the Liberal women, all of a sudden decided were an issue, 10 months into a new government?
Ha, what more can they do to perpetrate the whole, women as victims thing? Give it a rest, Liberals.
We DO NOT need you defining us. We are quite capable of taking this one over for ourselves!
October 21st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
When Libs are laying blame it's always “Stephen Harper’s Conservative government”, so why is it wrong to sign a cheque or web page as such ?
October 21st, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Interesting that suddenly the first installment was after they were in opposition. Of course all of the woes of the country that should have been fixed when they were in power now must be fixed by a minority Conservative government who has 3 years on the job. Hypocrisy thy name is Liberal.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Sorry Stephen I inadvertently left out “allegly' as the Liberals did in their pink book today when they said that “Under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, women are increasingly at risk for domestic abuse and violence”.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Under the Conservative government, women in the liberal caucus have become more outrageous in their arm flailing, statements, so called outrage, over everything. Has happened because of the conservative government or the fact that the liberal caucus has no leader.
And I agree, with the comment on the liberal women using the term Stephen Harper's conservative government. They should be reported to the ethics committee. Oh, 18 lib MPs have been reported for using their website to raise funds.
Did iffy go to speak at Harvard tonight. LOL. We should find out when that agenda was printed, and when iffy agreed to go.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Exactly! That's the outrage, hollinm.
(ps isn't this 'time out' for a certain individual, sweet bliss?!)
October 21st, 2009 at 9:20 pm
ps isn't this 'time out' for a certain individual, sweet bliss?!
YES
October 21st, 2009 at 9:23 pm
haha. But this issue will get zero ink.
Tories file complaint over Liberal website fundraising
http://www.canada.com/news/national/Tories+file...
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:28 am
Well, it's the same old story. The Liberanos in the senat stopped all the get tough on crime bills and they are still at it. As far as the Liberal Website fundraising is concerned, when did the Ethics commission ever critize the Liberals.?
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:29 am
Werner Patels,
Who needs Liberals anymore?
1) Ethically challenged Advertising Executives
2) Ethically challenged Construction Companies Executives in QC
3) Ethically challenged Consultants in Ontario
The list is too long and I don't want to “fill up” the internet.
Cheers.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:04 am
yes it is great that parnel is no longer blogging at this point. Now we can have an intelligent conversation without the insults of parnel/terry1/pony?.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 am
Wonder if the Pink Book Party will be wearing wilted pink tulips today to go with the reception this book re-run will be getting?
It's mind boggling really to read again that statement: “Under Stephen Harper's Conservative government, women are increasingly at risk for domestic abuse”.
This should be exposed for all to see and they should be made apologize for such an outrageous statement. It's an accusation for God's sake.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:52 am
I have said in the past that the Liberals exploit women particularly during election campaigns. For example, the pledge to make a third of their candidates women. They were shovelled disproportionately in ridings they simply were not going to win.
The reality is quite different. For over a century every leader has been white ,wealthy and male. Further, most of the top members and “backroom boys” have fit the same discription.
Women are equally concerned about debt ,taxes, crime, Senate reform etc. as men are. The “Pink Book” is a cynical exercise to patronize an electoral group that has been leaving the Libs. in droves.
More women support the Conservatives than the Libs by a wide margin. The assumption that only Liberals can speak on behalf of women or that somehow women need protection from the government is insulting. This campaign is further proof that the Liberal party is disconnected from the realities of modern Canada.
I suspect that a few of the female caucus members were a little embarrassed to be corralled into this latest stunt.
Doorknobs,anyone?
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
Yeah, “Hug-a-Thug” Libs luv to fudge the stats, eh! http://tinyurl.com/yfc665b #roft #cdnpoli
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Did I hear correctly, the Liberals are out accusing the Conservatives of corruption?
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 pm
O. M. G.
These Librano$ are SOMETHING ELSE.
I'm with you, Bec: I support the guys, as in the equality of men and women. I don't believe in Female Supremacy, as the official “pinko” radical/liberal feminists do. As per usual, whatever comes out of the Liberal$' “Pink Book,” “Red Book,” Whatever Book, is total and utter C-R-A-P.
These guys are desperate. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel and, as usually happens at the bottom of the barrel, it stinks.
If not for their buds in the media, they'd be burnt toast. As it is, they're just toast but, with any luck, after a Tory majority, they'll be burnt — real good!
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Moose and Squirrel, I LOVE your logo!
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:57 am
Yeah, funny that!
Anyway, given this is the third issue of the Pink Book they're having to make up something to get attention. This appears to be the Fabricated Edition.
Women and men everywhere across the country are insulted by such crap.
October 23rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Cross-posted at SDA tonight:
GR-8 article by Barbara Kay in today's National Post: “The Problem with the Pink Book.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/...
She debunks every one of the Liberal$' same old, tired old, radical feminist shibboleths.
Can't these Liberal$ EVER move forward? As it is, they're st…st…stuck on stupid in the far distant NAC/SOW past.
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Yeah batb, great article. Totally agree with Barbara Kay.
The nonsense in Pink book # 3 is more proof of their desperation, they're down to grasping at straws.
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:47 pm
<<”This is the end game for the Liberals, it's gotta be. That statement is outrageous in the extreme and should be litigious”>>
You are right but…no-one will do anything about it. As usual. Apathy and indifference will be our downfall
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Good heavens. There is hope for us yet. Well said young lady
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
I have yet to hear a single liberal come out in defense of Afghan women, but the minute a male Taliban terrorist has a sore toe, they turn into wolves. They are very selective in who's rights they will defend, I have noted. Not a single liberal wanted to know why the police did not protect a family against Mohawk terrorists in their own home and on their own property. A wife and mother was surrounded by masked men in her own home and police refused her 911 call and instead took her husband to jail just because he wanted to go home.
Have you ever heard a single liberal take a stand for the rights of anglophones from Quebec? Or victims of gang crime in Toronto?
To my way of thinking they seem to be very forthright on the rights of criminals, terrorists and separatists and do not care a darn about everyday ordinary taxpaying hard working Canadians.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
I have yet to hear a single liberal come out in defense of Afghan women, but the minute a male Taliban terrorist has a sore toe, they turn into wolves. They are very selective in who's rights they will defend, I have noted. Not a single liberal wanted to know why the police did not protect a family against Mohawk terrorists in their own home and on their own property. A wife and mother was surrounded by masked men in her own home and police refused her 911 call and instead took her husband to jail just because he wanted to go home.
Have you ever heard a single liberal take a stand for the rights of anglophones from Quebec? Or victims of gang crime in Toronto?
To my way of thinking they seem to be very forthright on the rights of criminals, terrorists and separatists and do not care a darn about everyday ordinary taxpaying hard working Canadians.