Stephen Harper’s right again and Liberals everywhere are in some serious denial.

The latest incantation of the federal Liberal party has a very anti-Israel feel to it, and this summer a number of very prominent Canadian Jews felt it too. Which was why the Canadian public was treated to the sight of some very public Liberal Jews making for the high road out of the Liberal party.

This summer we saw a number of non-Jewish Liberals attend a pro-Hezbollah rally in Quebec. It may play well in Montreal with its long history of anti-Semitism but the impression it made on thousands of ordinary Canadians outside of Quebec was that Liberal party stands with the terrorists. It is simply impossible to convey with any degree of creditability that yours is a nuanced position when you stand before a crowd of Hezbollah supporters who are waving their flags and cheering you on rather than calling for your head.

Prat all you want about how it was the Liberal party who originally placed Hezbollah on the designation terrorist list but the Liberals did not so until they were brow beaten into submission. Let me be brutally frank. There were only two reasons why the Liberals put Hezbollah on the list and neither factor had any thing to do with the blood of innocents on Hezbollah’s hands.

The first was a lawsuit launched against the Liberal government by Canada’s B’nai B’rith for not designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, and secondly, the resulting publicity polled very, very badly with Canadians outside of Quebec. Which is how it came to be that the Liberals finally agreed to put Hezbollah on the designated list of terrorist organizations in December 2002.

But here’s a memory from Chrétien Lane that I remember when our Prime Minister attended a conference wherein Hezbollah leader Nasrallah was openly lauded and our man at the top did not utter one word of protest or outrage. Furthermore, when Chrétien was taken to task for this glaring omission he claimed ignorance of any knowledge of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The date - October 2002. Now contrast that with Stephen Harper's performance at the same conference circa 2006. Harper's position is what I call true nuance.

There’s seems to be a rather distinctive pattern here and if the Liberal party is not very, very careful, a lot of ordinary Canadians may start to associate the Liberal party as the preferred party of terrorists everywhere. Ontarians should be surprised if Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty attempts to rebrand the Liberal party name in the next election.

I won’t claim to represent the view of ordinary Canadians and not because I am consider myself extraordinary in any way. But I have long associated the Liberal party with terrorism in my mind every single time I filed my taxes for the last 13 years.