- 注册
- 2002-10-07
- 消息
- 402,208
- 荣誉分数
- 76
- 声望点数
- 0
It’s part of Liberal candidate Anita Vandenbeld’s campaign narrative that she’s attracting support from “progressive” voters of all stripes, including Greens, New Democrats and Progressive Conservatives.
To put an exclamation point on that claim, the Liberal candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean staged a photo op Thursday at the home of David Daubney, who represented the old riding of Ottawa West as a Progressive Conservative from 1984 to 1988.
As news cameras clicked and whirred, Vandenbeld and Daubney planted an Anita sign on his front lawn.
It was an excellent stunt that attracted media attention, but perhaps not quite the shocker it might seem.
Many Progressive Conservatives detest Stephen Harper’s government, including Vandenbeld’s campaign chair, Moe Royer, who ran unsuccessfully for the PCs in Ottawa-Vanier in 1979 and 1980, and was once the party’s national vice-president.
Daubney, who voted for Vandenbeld in 2011 and displayed one of her lawn signs then as well, holds Harper in low regard.
“He’s a very strange man and he has left this country in bad shape,” he said Thursday. “His record is very abysmal, frankly.”
Daubney worked as a senior adviser in the Justice Department for more than two decades until his retirement in 2011. He played a key role in advancing restorative justice ideas until the Conservatives and their tough-on-crime agenda won power in 2006.
After that, “we couldn’t get this government to give a cent to restorative justice,” he said.
While getting rid of the Conservative government is his main objective, Daubney is also impressed by Vandenbeld, an international expert on democracy and human rights. “She’s a very incredible woman and she’s working in areas that are close to my heart.”
A lot of other PCs are voting Liberal this time, Daubney said. “I think some of them have given up on this version of Conservatism.”
dbutler@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/ButlerDon
查看原文...
To put an exclamation point on that claim, the Liberal candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean staged a photo op Thursday at the home of David Daubney, who represented the old riding of Ottawa West as a Progressive Conservative from 1984 to 1988.
As news cameras clicked and whirred, Vandenbeld and Daubney planted an Anita sign on his front lawn.
It was an excellent stunt that attracted media attention, but perhaps not quite the shocker it might seem.
Many Progressive Conservatives detest Stephen Harper’s government, including Vandenbeld’s campaign chair, Moe Royer, who ran unsuccessfully for the PCs in Ottawa-Vanier in 1979 and 1980, and was once the party’s national vice-president.
Daubney, who voted for Vandenbeld in 2011 and displayed one of her lawn signs then as well, holds Harper in low regard.
“He’s a very strange man and he has left this country in bad shape,” he said Thursday. “His record is very abysmal, frankly.”
Daubney worked as a senior adviser in the Justice Department for more than two decades until his retirement in 2011. He played a key role in advancing restorative justice ideas until the Conservatives and their tough-on-crime agenda won power in 2006.
After that, “we couldn’t get this government to give a cent to restorative justice,” he said.
While getting rid of the Conservative government is his main objective, Daubney is also impressed by Vandenbeld, an international expert on democracy and human rights. “She’s a very incredible woman and she’s working in areas that are close to my heart.”
A lot of other PCs are voting Liberal this time, Daubney said. “I think some of them have given up on this version of Conservatism.”
dbutler@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/ButlerDon
查看原文...
