Ignatieff has all the answers

As a teacher, I try to do everything that I can so that I can encourage my students to come up with the answers themselves. As my mentor from my student-teaching days said: "You want to be a guide on the side, not a sage on the stage."

Apparently, the intellectual hasn't figured that out yet. Note the Liberal approach of telling us ignorant Canadians what the answer really is.

"Ignatieff says after four years of Stephen Harper as prime minister, Canadians should ask themselves the question: "Are we better off than we were four years ago?"

He says the answer is no."

I guess if he says so.

Isn't this what conservatism is all about?

More election speculation via CTV:

Ignatieff attacked the government on its economic track record and said that the Tories have done little to rebuild the economy.

"If things are getting better, it's not because of this government, it's because the people of Canada have put their shoulder to the wheel," Ignatieff said.

That right there is the essence of conservatism: the people make the difference and not the government. I don't think that the government should be doing too much to get the ball rolling and to have Iggy say that that's what happening is fine by me.

While I'm not the first to say so, I am really getting tired of the constant threat of yet another election. I don't know who does strategy for the Liberal Party but the tactic really does get old after a while. Offer some options instead and show that you're about principle like you say you are.