I don't really give a crap what Tom Axworthy thinks but he seems to be a tad confused:"Liberalism's dirty secret [and it is not so secret these days] is that government doesn't seem to work well much of the time," he says, citing such examples as the 800,000 potential immigrants waiting for their applications to be processed; massive cost overruns at the gun registry; lengthy procurement delays for military equipment; poor water quality on aboriginal reserves; and the Jean Chretien Pledge to Africa Act, which promised to produce generic drugs to help fight AIDS but has yet to export a single pill.
The fact that government doesn't work is not a matter of liberalism not working. It's a function of poor policy implementation and management, not the philosophy itself. You'd think that Axworthy would know the difference. And the fact that the National Post considers his statement a 'bombshell' meant to make its right-wing audience salivate tells you how much their reporters have their collective heads up their butts as well.
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