Canadians have values.... Stephen Harper does not... the ignorant pig of parliament hill

Harper has ignored Canadian ways while destroying our reputation

There’s a clear disjuncture between Canadians and the Harper government on Canada’s foreign policy, writes former Conservative prime minister Joe Clark

 

The Senate scandal, more than anything else in the seven years of the Stephen Harper government, has exposed the authoritarian workings of this Prime Minister’s Office. Nowhere has his tight control been more ruthless than in the execution of foreign policy, his one-man show in which his foreign ministers are treated as clerks carrying out his orders and reading speeches and ‘talking points’ written in his office.
 

Joe Clark, former Conservative prime minister, lays this out in detail in his latest book, How We Lead (Random House, 273 pages).
 

It’s a damning critique of how Harper has changed Canada’s image in the world, from a nation admired for its sophistication in mediating, peacekeeping and working co-operatively in multilateral institutions to one that’s belligerent, divisive and dismissive of the United Nations and other international institutions, such as the Commonwealth, La Francophonie and the Organization of American States.
 

Clark notes that Harper brought about these profound changes with “little public or no parliamentary discussion or attention.” Nor was Harper’s planned change of direction ever mentioned “in the platforms or prominent policy positions of his Conservative Party.”

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