Kim Campbell doesn't like Stephen Harper.
Yes, the woman who started the 1993 election with a lead in the polls only to end up with two seats says the party's positions "are too socially conservative, I think, to form a government in Canada." I haven't been keen on Harper's insistance on keeping the SSM issue in the news, but to call the party "socially conservative" is a bit much.
The irony of this is that on the other issue usually cited with SSM as the so-con bread-and-butter -- abortion -- Campbell was more "socially conservative" than the current party. Party policy now is that a Conservative government will not legislate on abortion.
But when Campbell was justice minister, she brought forward and had passed a bill that would have placed limits on abortion. Campbell's bill was a response to the Supreme Court decision in R v. Morgentaler, which essentially did away with all limits on abortion. The Campbell bill passed the House but was defeated in the Senate, and to this day no one has dared touch the subject again.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 10:26 PM
