Steve Harper was a repeat offender in 2014 with regard to the dispatching of belligerent junior ministers and hapless parliamentary secretaries to defend problematic legislation in the House or derail Question Period. Pierre Poilievre’s smarmy sales job of the flawed Fair Elections Act and his subsequent climb-down in April were the LOW points of the year. Or would have been, had not Paul Calandra reduced himself to tears in September after a demeaning display of question-dodging on Mr. Harper’s behalf. Both incidents embarrassed some Conservatives as much as they outraged opposition MPs. 2014 was also the year a former Conservative MP, Dean Del Mastro, was convicted of overspending his campaign limit and trying to cover it up, and a former party staffer, Michael Sona, was convicted in the Robo-Call scandal. Harper has distanced himself from both men and their actions, of course, as he did with his former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, who somehow believed it was appropriate to pay off the ineligible expenses of a Conservative senator in 2013. No one would necessarily say that Steve endorses unethical activities, but there are people in his party who think that Anything Goes. And why wouldn’t they ? Harper showed in 2014 that he will play with his elbows out even in the most inappropriate situation. That brings us to Beverly McLachlin, the respected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court whose integrity the Prime Minister deliberately impugned in an absurd and indefensible fashion. He raised a doubt about whether Ms. McLachlin had interfered with the appointment of a new judge, and was then exposed for being completely and knowingly wrong. His grievous misjudgment demonstrated once and for all that there is no Canadian institution he considers sacred if it stands in his way. Other consequences of Mr. Harper’s antipathy to Parliament and to Canadian institutions in 2014 included but were not limited to two crime bills that were sent to the Senate containing serious errors, the use of taxpayer dollars on government advertising that happens to align with Conservative election promises, and a new prostitution law that is likely to fail a Charter challenge, and which police forces across the country have little intention of enforcing, thanks to the government’s refusal to listen to contrary opinions while the bill was in that former house of debate we know as Parliament. Ask Harper how it’s going after almost nine years in office and he – along with every single member of his party – will Robotically respond that his government is continuing to fight for hard-working Canadian families and lowering their taxes. It’s a SPIEL THAT TALKS PAST HIS government’s many flaws. Harper is FULLY responsible for those flaws. Harper is a liability to Canada and all is citizens. Hopefully he will die before the next election so there is no fragment of a chance that the Cons will be re-elected. We are all tired of the criminality.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:40:08 +0000
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