An epithet applied to the leader of the NDP by Conservative Party
MPs and their fellow right-wing travellers, with the
aim of discrediting/drowning out their adversaries by dishonestly portraying them as hating the Canadian military and hugging a foreign organization whose policies more closely resemble the Conservative Party's own, rather than addressing, in good
faith, the arguments and policies of the
person and party in question -- thus demonstrating their own status as the poster children for demagoguery.
"Taliban Jack! Taliban Jack!", some
government members screeched at Jack
Layton when he rose to speak in the
House.