The Liberals are a centrist party. They only appear left wing when held up to the conservatives who seem to follow the Frasier institute around like their "research" is written on stone tablets that descended from the heavens.
I find it interesting that so much is made out of the supposed "sponsorship scandal." The moneys in question are in the range of 100-200 million Canadian over about 5-7 years, meaning that I overpaid by about $1.5/year. I feel more violated every time I buy a brand new game.
And to be fair, the Conservative party is FAR from guilt free. They are the ones who shut down an panel that was investigating how the slaughter plants, who recieved ~400 million that was to be passed on to ranchers as a support during the BSE thing. Interesting thing was that the slaughter plants per animal profits tripled even though the offal lost value and they were slaughtering more animals. But looking into the books would have been wrong, said the Conservatives. How convenient then that the slaughter plants are major supporters of the Conservatives, and that the Alberta Conservatives are hip deep into Lakeside Packers (one of the major slaughter plants).
I mean really DeathDude... it's all well and good to point the finger at the federal government and say they've been ruling too long but the Alberta Conservatives have served for how long exactly (about 3 decades). Here in Alberta we have one of the most arrogant governments around and yet vote them in every 4-5 years, as long as we get our pay-out... I mean energy subsidy.