Angry in the Great White North

Jason Cherniak reveals just how some Liberals like to play at politics -- no one is safe when power is at stake:

Before election as an MP, Wajid Khan was the President and CEO of a car dealership, Dufferin Mazda. I don't know if he still owns it, but I do know that Khan Motorsport is a Maza parts company that works closely with Dufferin Mazda. Maybe we should protest in front of the dealership. I would not organize such a thing unless I knew for sure that he or his family still had a financial stake, though. Does anybody know for sure?

Maybe Cherniak ought to recall that a business employs a lot of people, many of whom have no stake whatsoever in Khan's political life. The dealership does not, as far as I know, have a contract with the Liberal Party to provide cars, nor with the Conservatives. It is a private business that is struggling to make a profit in a very competitive business (and thankless business too -- how much respect do car salesmen get?).

What if Khan was a doctor? Would Cherniak picket his office and make it difficult for patients to make their appointments?

What if Khan was teacher? Wave placards in the face of students?

Jason, take a day or two and cool it. I was angry when Belinda Stronach crossed the floor. Here's my posting on it:

"Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest."
Benjamin Franklin

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill"
François de la Rochefoucauld

". . . treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."
Emily Bronte

"Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe"
William Shakespeare

Seemed appropriate. Feel free to email them to Belinda.

Maybe Jason is upset that despite being exposed to Stephane Dion's luminous presence, Khan still decided to quit. Whatever. But Jason might be considering a future in politics. If so, he would do well to retract this idea and very quickly. Otherwise, years from now, some enterprising reporter or blogger is going to dig his post up (or mine, for that matter) and ask him just why his political opponents ought not to be demonstrating at Cherniak's law firm.