July 5, 2011 – A reader of my recent column in The Hill Times on the how the NDP are no longer the party of Tommy Douglas wrote to me and mentioned the following:
Thanks for the Tommy Douglas piece that appeared in the Winnipeg Free press recently. One of my father’s favourite TD quotes was the title of one of his sermons before he entered politics, which was something like, “God looks after every little bird, but he does not throw food in the nest”.
