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Talk about vague generalities. Name one project, please. And no, not CANMET. That was a holdover from the Liberals. Do you live in his riding? I do, and I can tell you he has done SFA for our riding. He is also all but invisible, barely mustering the energy to show up to community events and gladhand people.
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No I don't live in his riding (and I dislike that term anyways, just because he represents it doesn't mean he owns it). And FYI I do know people in ADFW, some of whom have been helped in the course of his constituency work, and also another individual whose own MP did sfa for her, yet Sweet helped.
As for projects, where have you been for the past 3 years? Is CANMET seriously the only federal project you can think of? For example, three construction ready affordable housing projects in Hamilton just got 7.1 million in funding, the 3 million dollar investment in Redeemer University College (which despite being a private university, still has a role to play in our post-secondary system), 22 million also at the same time for McMaster University and the Eastgate Transit terminal funding (1.6 million) just to mention a few recent items for the riding and the surrounding areas.
Dan McLean would be hard pressed to do better. As a white-male from Ontario, he would be hard pressed to find a cabinet post, especially as there are many more Liberal MPs ahead of him, especially those who haven't alienated their own party by calling themselves a "small-c conservative". He will also have to spend the next three years building a rapport with his fellow MPs, just like Sweet did. (Sweet being chair of a fairly important committee speaks to the respect he has earned from his fellow MPs). In other words, Mr. McLean's influence will likely be less than Sweet, especially if the Liberals do not form government. (Or form government in a coalition with the NDP in which case "small-c conservative" liberals will be even more alienated from the mainstream of the party).
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Good Lord, it's going to be a long campaign. Accusing your opponent of ineffectiveness is hardly a "baseless character attack".
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It is if you don't back it up with facts. For example: Tyler Banham accused Chris Charlton of being ineffective. He backed it up with her short office hours among other things. That had a base. Meanwhile Mr.McLean's attack (the way it was reported) had no base. It is the same as calling someone a liar, but not giving a single example of HOW he is a liar. I gave an example of something he could have used, but instead of bringing specific accusations and letting them stand or fall on their merit, Mr.McLean chose dirty politics. There's too much of that on every side this day, and I'm tired of it.