Harper throws stones, shatters own glass house
| August 3, 2015I was going to write about the cynical move by Stephen Harper to launch the longest election campaign since 1872, but plenty of others have already done so.
That leaves me to comment on Stephen Harper's disparaging remarks, made in a speech this morning in Laval, about the Quebec NDP caucus. He criticized Quebec voters for repeatedly sending "opposition MPs to Ottawa" who are "more and more ineffective" and singled out the NDP MPs elected in 2011 for his most vitriolic attacks.
"That group of NDP MPs in the last four years is the most inefficient, ineffective group we've ever seen. There is not one star among those members of the Quebec NDP caucus." [translated from the original French by Canadian Press.]
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Harper thinks he knows what a star looks like, but his record suggests otherwise. He's hand-picked Dean Del Mastro, Paul Calandra and Pierre Polievre to be his Parliamentary Secretaries (or professional standins). He appointed Patrick Brazeau, Don Meredith, Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to the Senate. He made Vic Toews a judge and Peter Penashue a cabinet minister. He chose the late Arthur Porter to oversee Canada's spy agencies. With a record of such impeccable judgment, he's obviously well qualified to tell Quebec voters how they should vote.
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