“Would you buy a used car from this guy?”
The old man in the hat
Ok. Ok. I admit it. I don’t send Prime Minister Harper a Christmas Card. No birthday Card. No Ground Hog Day cards either. It just that, well, I’ll just come straight out with it. There is something just not right about Harper. No, it’s not just the personal, full time, hairdresser. I mean, the Prime Minister of Israel has two! It’s not just the monotone voice of dismissal and dialogue blandly offered to the public, at invitation only events. It’s not just the anti -science agenda. It’s not just the muzzling of the government ministers. I mean, even his own backbench members had to appeal to the speaker in order to actually ask questions in the house not pre-approved by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). It’s not just the use of the PEOPLE of CANADA’S own taxpayer dollars to mail out politically partisan attacks on the newly elected Liberal leader. I mean, like, what’s the problem with spying on your own members to see what they’re saying to the public when not on parliament hill. Such care, such attention, who wouldn’t love such a man!
With such an attitude and attention to details, how dare we question the sincerity of our Prime Minister.
It was with great consternation that Mr. Harper’s office, unequivocally, stated that he had no knowledge of his Chief of Staff’s action in issuing a personal cheque (a gift, no less) to repay the Chief of Staff personal friend’s (Conservative Senator Mike Duffy) debt to the government of Canada for improperly claiming a housing allowance for a seldom visited “residence” in PEI, a province to which Senator Duffy was appointed to represent, by Mr. Harper, in the senate. $90,000.00. No idea. Nope. Don’t know a thing.
Yeah, right. This is coming from the man who takes great pride in knowing and controlling every aspect of his political life and the public life of his government. I guess if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, maybe it’s a duck?
I think my queasy feeling with Harper goes beyond the anti-Atlantic Canadian attitude and boils down to this. I would not buy a used car from this guy. I just don’t get that warm and friendly feeling that it’s me that he’s worried about. The odometer has been rolled back and I’m pretty sure there’s body fill under that new looking rear fender. I’m sorry Mr. Harper, I’m not buying your story.
