Who is this lefty? Why is he writing for the Post?

Wants to tax the wealthy in order to reduce poverty and income disparities -

Persevering readers will recall that I have plumped for a modest and self-liquidating wealth tax that would go to poverty-reduction projects that could be devised and administered by the taxpayer, and regulated in the same manner as charities. This would put the most agile financial minds behind poverty reduction and give the wealthiest an interest in eradicating poverty. It would also make at least a modest start on income disparities, which should be attacked mainly by lifting the lowest, rather than tearing down the high earners.

Wants to hug-a-thug and turn the Canada into a country of pot-heads -

The government's harsh treatment of convicted criminals -- longer sentences, severe visiting restrictions, ending many vocational and recreational programs--is popular with the Conservative base. But it is a regressive and repulsive policy of the kind that past Liberal leaders would have opposed, as W.E. Gladstone raised Britain in the 1870s against the atrocities of Disraeli's Turkish ally. Michael Ignatieff should be proposing reduced custodial sentences for non-violent felons, complete decriminalization of marijuana offences, and more treatment and less incarceration for most drug offenders. He should be leading the world instead of being a mute spectator of a new custodial dark age.

Predicts the phoenix-like rise of the Liberal party -

The Liberals have never really had a malaise before, even when they lost badly. There was no malaise under William Blake, Lester Pearson or John Turner. All talk of a malaise will be banished when there is leadership that is both imaginative and faithful to the party's reforming traditions. It will come, either under this leader or his successor.

Oh my...it's Lord Tubby.  The reformed criminal.

Amazing what a little time in prison can do for some people.