Wronging a Right

Wronging a Right: "Contributor: 'YYC'

A tale of two Harpers, five years on

Harper (all teary-eyed): “My father used to say just because it’s right doesn’t mean you should do it.”

Harper (all red-faced): Did I say that out loud?

The right thing to do is to design a budget everyone can live with. But Harper's crew are reportedly ahead in the polls, and they've rolled out the TV ads again that make Harper seem capable but cuddly (despite his favouring the death penalty and that he would ban choices for women if he thought he could) and Ignatieff too terribly intellectual, so ...

Imagine, only about 1/3 of Canadians say they'd vote for the Cons, yet Harper will rule again and still call it democracy.

BTW: It's also a tale of at least two rugs, but for some reason the media can't bring themselves to mention that. It's on their minds, though, so in the side panel under 'Must Reads' there's a headline about Jennifer Aniston's hair instead.

Speaking of dictatorship, why is there now a discussion of who's next in line should Harper die? There are many issues on which the media could do some investigative work, and the pecking order of the Cons seems hardly one of them.

Does Harper plan to walk if faced with another minority? That would make me a seer of sorts. Here's what I said in September 2009:

... if Harper doesn't win a majority this time, he may well walk away. In fact, there's even the possibility he won't run if he can't see a majority ahead of him. Watch the mainstream 'news' to see if it plays up any of his cabinet ministers - such as Lawrence Cannon, for instance. It's already downplaying Ignatieff, and he is (reportedly) falling in the polls as well.

Portraying Cannon so close to Clinton is pretty suggestive as well. That could bode either way for him, though. But keeping Canadians polarized seems to be effectively melding the parties and getting us accustomed to a more Americanized system, which appears to have been the plan at least since Paul Martin's day.

(VIDEO): Press For Truth Confronts Paul Martin on Bilderberg and the SPP

Martin admits in the video that he actually signed the SPP. Remember the Harper government saying that was a myth (VIDEO)?

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