Brief follow-up on Rorschach

From Alexa McDonough, precisely the kind of statement I want to see from the NDP at this point:

Canada has the fiscal capacity to meet our international obligations. What is lacking is the political will. Canada must also address our failure to eradicate child poverty here at home, a commitment adopted unanimously by Parliament in 1989. Yet one million Canadian children still live in poverty.Today we congratulate the Make Poverty History campaign dedicated to ending poverty around the world and here at home in Canada. Let us sign on as full partners.

The key elements:
- It points out Liberal failures, both nationally and internationally.
- It presents both a concrete plan (signing on to an international movement) and an aspiration for future improvement.
- It discusses Canada's fiscal capacity to carry out the plan. (Granted, I'd like to see this part played up even more. But there's only so much one can say in one statement.)
More to come.