Do you think even good progressives have never had 'petty' or not so- crimes committed against them?Yes. But that's not a huge problem in Canada today - except in Harper's playbook. Someone who disagrees with me and thinks crime is a huge problem in Canada, probably should vote for Harper.
And Olivia Chow has been out there fighting for the poor and dispossessed for a very long time while a lot of us having been pounding off on our computers.
Then why did she propose a bill to solve Mr. Chen's problem, but not Mr. Bennett's? Why was apprehension of the criminal her first and only priority? Why didn't she speak out - then and there - about poverty, race, disability (addiction), treatment, prevention? Why only about apprehension?
I think her heart is in the right place. It's her head that's screwed on wrong. If she compromises with Harper's agenda on crime, and forgets what the source and solution to petty social crime is, then she and her party will lose. That's my opinion.
Talking about crime is not Harper's agenda. Real people in real lives are affected by crime. Trying to deal with their problems is responsible and progressive. Chow has said a great deal over the years and recently about poverty, housing and many other issues, but that doesn't fit into your constant framing attempts so you ignore it. She has been particularly eloquent on how we deal with the mentally ill in society, but again you ignore this. She walks the walk while others pound away on their keyboards.
The Harper agenda is pretend violent crime is right around the corner waiting for you. Harper's agenda is building more prisons as they divert prisoners away from things like the prison farms program. Harper's agenda is to create fear of the 'other'.
What Olivia Chow has suggested is a million, million miles away from that. All Chow did was try to help a victim of crime deal with the issues surrounding that incident and to make sure no one else gets caught up in that again. It was a responsible and thoughtful response to a small problem that clearly needs fixing.
But agian you don't actually care about that because your whole routine is a constant, bungling attempt to frame the NDP and to attack babblers under the radar so you can pretend to have some sort of higher moral ground.