Politics Gone Upside Down

First, Jack Layton sums up part of my opinion on the Harper government:

“The measuring stick this government is using is how that former government behaved itself? Unbelievable!”

“They campaigned on accountability but they're governing like the Liberals.”

Admittedly, Jack Layton was only referring to the government's ethical conduct, but that statement could apply to fiscal and economic policy, and to a lesser extent even foreign affairs.

Second, a Trudeau comes out and makes a good argument:

Mr. Trudeau [argued that a] bilingual education system would be more cost-effective than the current separate systems for francophones and anglophones.

To make his point, he lamented the fact that francophone and anglophone children did not play together when he went to school as a youth in Montreal.

"The segregation of French and English in schools is something to be looked at seriously," Mr. Trudeau was quoted as saying in local papers. "It is dividing people and affixing labels to people."

It's good to see that even Justin Trudeau recognizes that Pierre Trudeau's support of segregation in Canada is wrong-headed. (Would we accept a right to segregate if it were on racial lines instead of lingual lines?)

Where are politics in Canada going when I rely on Jack Layton and a Trudeau to see any sense in politics?