Stephen Harper has a "secret" meeting with the walking Ego that is Brian Mulroney and it its splashed on the front page of every paper in the country. Mulroney rarely speaks himself, but has has a handful of advocates that worship the most despised PM in Canadian history. They are obsessed with rehabilitating his image. They plant stories in newspapers on how misunderstood their great leader is.
They want us to forget that their hero took a paper bag full of money in a bribe shortly after leaving office.
Harper's staggeringly weak cabinet is badly in need of an overhaul. Bev Oda has to be shown the door. Peter Kent, in Environment, has shed every last piece of credibility, along with his personal dignity. Tony "Milhouse"Clement embarrassed himself and his nation in the lead up to the G20 summit. They all have to go!
I know that Harper signed a deal with Peter "Little Boy" Mackay to merge the PC and Reform/Alliance parties. Part of that deal was giving Petey a cabinet post. It begs the question, is that a cabinet post for life? I have never witnessed a more bungling fool in any cabinet. We know Harper does not personally like MacKay. It is time to shuffle this guy right out of politics.
I was not a big fan of Karen Stintz in Toronto city politics, but the right-wing politician and former Ford Brother's ally, has turned out to be a visionary TTC Chair. First she stood up to the Ford Twins idiotic, unfunded Sheppard subway fiasco and reinstated the Transit City Plan. Her latest idea is to increase property taxes to finance a major subway expansion. It may result in a an average of $200 a year more in property taxes. It is a price I am willing to pay. I hope she succeeds.
It is interesting too see that the most effective critic of the McGuinty government in Ontario, is the Toronto Star. Canada's only major left-wing paper broke the Ornge helicopter scandal, as well as Toronto District School Board union's gross mismanagement of public funds. This is in sharp contrast to the National Post and Sun newspaper's fawning support of the Conservatives.
Read a great piece in the Globe outlining Harper's foreign policy as embracing the Anglo sphere and Israel at all costs. Ignoring Africa, the Far East and mainland Europe. It is costing Canada a once revered place in the world. You get the impression Harper would like to turn back the clock to an all white Protestant horse buggy days in a simpler time. His embracing of all things Olde Blighty, including an increasingly distant Queen, is far from the reality of modern day, multicultural Canada. He is a throwback to time, few of us want to return to.
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