Hell no!!

The author of this article was a left wing former Toronto city councillor (who was so obscure I can't even remember him at all), the same as Jack Layton before he became NDP leader. People who put Jack Layton on a pedestal (as this guy did) has to have their heads examined. Their type is high on ideaology but low on practicality. Since most of the NDP types came from the academic world (like Jack Layton was) and had never hold a real job in their lives. I am not disputing that they are intellegent or well educated, but that alone does not mean they can rule effectively. This is what Canada and Ecuador, and for that matter, the U.S. all needed badly.

Bob Rae (former NDP premier of Ontario) sure learned the hard way when his NDP won a surprise election in the 1990s (just like Rafael Correa and his gang did now) that it is easy to sit on the side line and throw rocks at what you don't like. However, actually doing something to correct a rotton system requires more just passing a few laws. The NDP experience in Ontario was a disaster, even though Bob Rae did learn to be resposnsible. At the end he alienated his power base - the unions - by passing some pragmatic laws, one of which was allowing Sunday shopping in Ontario.

For the sake of the long suffering Ecuadorian people I just hope the Correa gang has some common sense and forget about ideaology, and pass some sensible laws in particular some business friendly mining laws and scrap the WFT to build a mining industry.

Now that they have formed the government and are accountable for everything they used to criticize. They better deliver quick or they will be out the door just as quick.