text: Once Ambrose started speaking for herself and not Harper, I was actually impressed (and figured a party under her might have a shot at beating Trudeau). 
  
  But now we have a cover band of Harper's greatest hits, where everybody in the band outsings the lead singer (okay, terrible metaphor - but Scheer seems to be making [or just letting] everybody else do his dirty work - it's likely coordinated, but it sure doesn't appear that way). 
  
  And the Conservatives have brought up the will of the people in Charter issues before (remember when gay marriage wasn't legal nationwide and they wore "It's the stupid Charter" buttons to counter Liberals'  buttons that said "It's the Charter, stupid")? Rights shouldn't be a popularity contest.
  
  The trouble is that Liberals (and the media) haven't done a good job of explaining the background -under the law, it doesn't matter what he did or didn't do before he got to Guantanamo, it mattered what we did after that - and the Supreme Court has spoken on this