I am old, but I can be very angry still

April 3 (Petti Fong, The Globe and Mail) Emerson draws biggest protest yet

Few politicians can draw 500 people out on a Sunday afternoon to march for them.

David Emerson can, although it’s unlikely he’s happy about it.

Two months after the MP defected from the Liberals to join the Conservatives, his detractors are not giving up their quest to shame him into resigning.

A number of other estimates put the crowd at closer to 900 or 1,000, by the time all had funnelled into the park, as marchers occupied one lane of Kingsway and stretched back almost five blocks. One of the interesting things about Sunday’s march and rally were the number of Chinese Canadians that came out – either by intention or were spontaneously drawn in as we marched by. The Globe and Mail article concludes with a response from one gentleman who attended:

He Feng, who has lived in the riding for 40 years and has voted for the federal Liberals since 1964, never thought he would be joining in protests.

“I am old, but I can be very angry still,” Mr. Feng said in Cantonese. “He took my vote, put it in his pocket and emptied it somewhere else.”

Mr. Feng gets it – why doesn’t Stephen Harper or David Emerson?