Andrew Coyne wrote a blog that appeared on the
Macleans website a couple of days ago called
On Ignatieff's Speech. It included this picture. I thought it was pretty funny.
The only specific policy commitment I could find was “a common national
standard for employment insurance.” Otherwise, it’s just a
laundry list of things it would be nice to have:
A Canada where every child gets an equal start!
Where every student who gets the grades gets to go to the best education in the world!
Where no Canadian ever has to struggle with the burden of illiteracy!
Where no Canadian with a disability faces obstacles…
As I listened, I found myself mentally reciting the words to Big Rock Candy Mountain:
The only thing missing was the music, so here it is.
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There’s a land that’s fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night.
Where the boxcars are all empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees,
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.