Ed Broadbent, you must have seen this coming!

For 49 years the Liberals have campaigned left and governed right to win elections with the support of left leaning voters and then to ignore inconvenient left wing promises so as not to drive the country into bankruptcy.

The one time they did govern decidedly left was from 1972-74 with a minority government and a lengthy shopping list of costly promises from your leader David Lewis as his price for propping up the Trudeau 1.0 regime.

The national debt skyrocketed, the economy plummeted and 40 years later we are still paying off the Trudeau-Lewis debt.

We understand your affection for the kind of PR system that European socialists now in full retreat dearly love and realize it would benefit your party and the Greens while costing the LPC and the CPC seats.

But PR was never seriously on the Liberal agenda and you shouldn't kid the kidders by pretending otherwise.

"Liberal promises" is the quintessential political oxymoron in Canada.