Ever since it was recently revealed that Andrew Scheer consults his mentor Stephen Harper before making any major decisions, an old and deeply disturbing question is being asked again.Who is the real leader of the Cons?Some say Scheer aka Weak Andy is just humouring Harper because he's afraid of him…Read
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Northern Reflections: They Still Stand In Awe Of Harper
Last week, Kellie Leitch suggested that prospective immigrants to Canada should pass a “Canadian values” test. You’ll remember that, during the last election, Leitch and then Minister of Immigration Chris Alexander pitched a “barbaric practices” snitch line. Michael Harris writes that Leitch:
is a one-woman wrecking crew for the party of MacDonald and Mulroney. She parroted the Harper line, signalling that the CPC hasn’t learned a single thing from its recent electoral thrashing. She represents the abyss, not renewal.
Leitch, however, isn’t the only former cabinet minister with a Harper obsession:
Take Peter MacKay. When Harper finally left public life, MacKay had a chance to be his own man, or at least what is left of that commodity. Instead, in a sucky and transparent attempt to woo the old Reform wing of the party who might be useful should he decide to run, he dipped deep into the wells of sycophancy and sang Harper’s praises — for leaving his “indelible” mark on the country, for steering Canada through the recession, and for getting the nation’s books balanced.
Those who survived the last election keep repeating Stephen Harper’s view of the world:
They continue to play the violin for Stephen Harper. They continue to act as though the loss in 2015 was the result of great ideas poorly articulated, rather than a decade of tyranical one-man rule that very nearly ruined the country with Harper’s warmed up version of Northern Republicanism. Remember how Harper himself mused about banning the niqab in the federal public service, but denied that his government’s anti-Muslim ranting had anything to do with attacks on Muslim women? Trump-like? You know it.
And they refuse to look at the election results:
The party lost the youth vote and young females. It lost First Nations people, scientists, and immigrants. Someone has got to figure out a way to get them back — and it isn’t more tax cuts for wealthy corporations, niqab bans, information blackouts, or rat lines.
Harris suggests that perhaps Michael Chong is the only leadership candidate who doesn’t doesn’t still stand in awe of Harper.
Stay tuned.
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Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Last Progresive Conservative
Stephen Harper is about to shuffle his cabinet. And those who are presently in it — but who will not run in the next election — are taking their leave. Among them is Ted Menzies. Jeffrey Simpson writes: Mr. Menzies was the last former Alberta Progressive Conservative left in the
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