Wheat Board

Sheila Copps Dept: Then there s the matter of what they stand for. The Liberals have shown they re only capable of coming up with old ideas, tired ideas and bad ideas, says a cynical friend, and on the evidence, he s right. As the Western world is buffeted by economic storms, rising inequality and unsustainable entitlements, the Liberals are preparing to debate such urgent matters as legalizing marijuana, bringing back the Wheat Board, expanding hate-propaganda laws to include gender hatred, and abolishing the monarchy a task that s almost constitutionally impossible , according to Globe and Mail. But maybe you can t blame them too much. The progressive left is floundering everywhere. Their best ideas are used up. The postwar institutions they worked so successfully to build are in big trouble. And they have no idea what to do about it and sadly, radical change is not in sight not this weekend, as the party s tattered remnants gather in Ottawa to map out their Road to Renewal and not any time soon. No party that s ready to elect Sheila Copps as president is sincerely interested in renewal. These ideas so slight, so silly and so distracting are a sign of intellectual exhaustion. Even Liberals know that, if they want to reconnect with the soul of Canada, as one party stalwart put it, they ll have to come up with something better. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.