What is soon to be former Prime Minister Harper thinking saying he doesn't believe any taxes are good taxes. Jeffery Simpson's column in the Globe and Mail today puts that inanity in context.
Last week Mr. Harper went out of his way to take a moment of statesmanship coming out of the G8 and turn it into a cheap and mistaken partisan diatribe against his nemesis Michael Ignatieff. Harper is always quick to take a political shot regardless of accuracy in this case. His apology was clinical more than heartfelt.
He constantly misleads and misdirects media and public attention from the facts and serious issues of the day. He constantly changes political tack without personal tact. We have come to expect attach ads, cheap partisan shots, demagoguery and abuse disguised as "discipline" often applied to his caucus. Gamesmanship over governance is this man's default position as a political "leader."
We know we can't trust or believe him any more. The fact that this recent behaviour and character flaws only amount to a one day story shows just how much Canadians have tired of Harper and his bullying "style" Our experiment with minority government will likely end next election and hopefully Canadian voters will deliver us from this authoritarian autocrat.
It is time to return some respectful and capable leadership that is capable and committed to the greater public good and who sees government as a positive contributor to those ends. Today that is any federal party leader other than Prime Minister Harper.
Couldn't agree with you less, Ken. What worries me, maybe not most Canadians, but me anyway, is that the only normal alternative to Cons is the LIbs. Scary. Even the leader was not elected democratically, according to Bob Rae, but annointed. The Libs have no policy, no real support, no recent legacy of which to be proud. I personally do not want to go back to the days when the good 'ol boy Lib machine was cheerfully whitewashing every allegation and evidence of corruption and deceit. They still haven't been in the woodshed taking their punishment long enough to see the old guard die off.
ReplyDeleteI hold my nose to a certain extent when I say "Better a left leaning right wing party than a left leaning left wing party."
And coalition with separatists and socialists? - I could puke.