In a flyer that will be delivered to households this week, the Tories take aim at Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and other Liberal MPs for their handling of the detainee issue.
“Canadians know that our men and women in uniform are serving around the world with honour and distinction,” the flyer reads. “Why are Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal Party suggesting otherwise?”
The leaflet was designed to tell Canadians “that the opposition parties are calling into question the conduct of Canadian forces,” Conservative MP Peter Braid said on CTV News Channel’s Power Play.
But opposition parties sharply criticized the flyers, saying they misrepresent their views and sidestep the central issue. Liberal Foreign Affairs critic Bob Rae called the latest Tory flyers “poisonous.”
Title: Tories fire back on Afghan detainees, anger opposition
From: CTV.ca News Staff
Date: Wed. Feb. 3 2010 7:59 PM ET
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100203/opposition_meetings_100203/20100203?hub=QPeriod
[...] Read all about it here [...]
Are these flyers really taxpayer-funded??
Yes! They are called ten percenters because MPs are allowed to send mailings equal to ten percent of their constituent total to non-constituents. The original idea was to allow MPs to advise persons on the other side of constituency borders of a common matter, but it is abused. MPs in safe ridings are sending flyers to ridings in other provinces. All the parties do it, but the Conservatives have it leveraged best. They target ridings they think they can take and blanket them with propaganda. Also sad is that the MP sending them has no choice in the matter. This is all handled by the central parties.
Regardless:we won’t know about our uniform’s honour-and-distinction part until the Colvin disclosures are substantiated or refuted.
Proroguing our most valued institution won’t cover it up, unless my perception of Canadians is wrong.
Remember Somalia.