NDP: normal is being undemocratic

NDP leadership candidate Peggy Nash recently stated that Canada was not 'normal'.

NDP leadership hopeful Peggy Nash says Canada is no longer a "normal" country under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's direction.

The Toronto MP describes Harper's Canada as a country of growing inequality, record personal debt, hopelessness among youth and a federal government that continually tells people to expect less. 

"I don't think that's normal," Nash told The Canadian Press in a wide-ranging interview Thursday. "I think that's wrong."

Being from the NDP she is obviously left wing politically and while she won't identify herself as being left-left, centre-left or right-left, she likes to see herself described as a "practical radical".

I can only think that she looks to that political left bastion of hope, the European Union as inspiration and hope. If so, that's a bit scary. I mean, its the EU that represses democracy by not allowing the people to vote on inclusion or departure from the Union. It is the EU that forces democratically elected governments to change their budgets to meet the Union's needs rather than the needs of the country in question. It is the Union that forces democratically elected members of government to resign and then replaces them with unelected officials without any say from the people.

If that is what she considers to be normal, I want nothing to do with her.