Shut up, voters. Joe Oliver is still talking.
If you ever have to give Joe Oliver a lift in the family car, I’d recommend using the backward-facing baby seat.
Has Canadian public life ever seen a more delusional, fiction-obsessed revisionist than the former finance minister? Proof of that statement abounds; the latest is his recent op-ed piece penned for Chairman Godfrey at Postmedia arguing that the damned Liberals are erasing the glorious legacy of Stephen Harper.
One commentator on the page asked a good question: Was Oliver’s column a special to the National Post, or a cry for his mama?
Oliver tried to make the argument that the Trudeau government is overturning all the wonderful things done by Side Door Steve (he doesn’t sit in Parliament — helurks there). Take the Office of Religious Freedom (ORF). Joe sees this Harper-era initiative as a giant step forward for mankind. Others, whose comfort zone isn’t necessarily the Middle Ages, prefer the separation of church and state — a secular approach to governance. (Yes, Joe, it’s a radical thought. But a lot has happened since the Battle of Hastings.)
No wonder Joe pines for the now-defunct ORF. It was just one more example of the CPC using public money to pay for their political machine. For one thing, ORF reported to that well-known religious figure John Baird, not Parliament. Archbishop Baird and his personal diocese over at Foreign Affairs were about as multi-partisan as Jenni Byrne’s appointment book. That was not an Office of Religious Freedom. That was a $20 million train robbery (over four years) to advance the Conservative agenda.
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