"Landslide Annie" Targeted

Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan has become the target of defenders of traditional marriage in a fullpage newspaper ad (see below) this weekend.

Most embarrassing for McClellan is a video that was placed on the web. The former minister of justice, in her trademark Preston Manning voice and in her typical anticlimactic delivery, declares herself in support of the traditional definition of marriage.

But here is the clincher, McLellan argues (in 1999) that the question of equality can be addressed without granting homosexual marriage:

I fundamentally believe that it is not necessary to change the definition of marriage in order to accommodate the equality issue around same-sex partners.

It would seem that Stephen Harper hired away the Deputy Prime Minister's speech writer.