Posted on 11/01/06
Is Paul Martin losing it?
Any lingering doubts there may have been about Paul Martin's poor political instincts -- some might say stupidity, but that would be rude -- were surely removed during the party leaders' English-language debate on Monday when the Prime Minister suddenly announced that a new Liberal government would move at once to reopen the constitutional package negotiated with such difficulty a quarter of a century ago to remove the so-called notwithstanding clause as it applies to the federal government. If he thought he was pulling a vote-winning rabbit out of the hat, he probably will find that it is dead and smelly -- a vote-losing trick.
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