“Of course we don’t think alike on many issues. On social issues, he is a conservative. I am for free choice on abortion. He is not. He is against gun control. I am for it. He is for capital punishment. I am against it. I am a Liberal,” he said.
Mr. Chrétien also spoke passionately about proposed legislation to ban corporate and union donations that has split the Liberal party, saying it is necessary to stop the hijacking of politics by wealthy special interests as has happened in the United States. He noted, for example, that it costs $35 million to run one single Senate campaign in the U.S. — about the same as it costs for an entire federal election in Canada.
He’s the best of all known evils. 😉