As if the Emerson saga couldn't get any stranger...

On CBC's The Early Edition this morning Emerson told host Rick Cluff that he isn't a partisan. Duplicitous Dave said he ran as a Liberal as a favour to Paul Martin. He says that parties are just tools (to get elected).

So what do we learn today? That the supposedly non-partisan David Emerson is co-chair of the Conservative electoral campaign, one of the most partisan roles one could have in a campaign.

Paraphrased, Emerson went from "I'm not a partisan" to "I'm running a partisan election campaign for the entire country" all in a single interview.

Is it any wonder that no thinking Canadian can trust a word that comes out of Emerson's mouth? And this is one of Harper's bright lights? What deception are lesser mortals willing to pull off?

Emerson also noted that all he really cared about was getting his personal agenda done and that's why he ran. Unsaid in words, but with volumes spoken in action, he never really cared about the things that Vancouver-Kingsway, my riding, care about. The riding cared about issues like child care and aboriginal affairs. Emerson only cared about building more freeways (which Vancouver has historically and successfully till not opposed) and expanding the port (to bring in more imports for the U.S., along with all the pollution on sea and land attendant to such trade). Had Emerson chosen to be honest to constituents and ran on what he really wanted to do, he'd never have been elected even once.

Every word he's uttered on the subject only goes to reinforce that he has nothing but contempt for actual democracy. Perhaps that's why he is such a fan of China, a place where the overlords can get things done without the pesky requirement of being accountable to voters.