It seems the Hair is out of step with Canadians. He is constantly rebuked by the Supreme Court, abused by his friends in the Senate, let down by his caucus, betrayed by underlings and his cabinet might all be vying for his job. As he said at Jim Flaherty’s funeral, not even his friends like him. It is so bad that the Hair is again contemplating his future. Does he even have one?
The Hair has reason to be deeply troubled. Someone needs to take this boy in hand and show him the difference between love and reality. He has walked away from his mentors such as Preston Manning and Tom Flanagan. His dream of a Triple-‘E’ Senate has crashed and burned. He cannot even give away a free trade deal in today’s protectionist world. His secret formula for winning the next election—the supposed Fair Election Act—has lost traction and credibility. His posturing as a world leader over the Ukraine has fallen flat. U.S. President Obama has kissed him off along with his Keystone pipeline plans for shipping Alberta bitumen.
And the Supreme Court has not only embarrassed him again and again but he is still up against it with the nation’s courtesans. We have to remember that politicians are not the only people who want to screw us for profit. As the Supreme’s pointed out, hookers also have rights. The clock is ticking and the Hair has less than a year to tell his rabid religious right supporters what he proposes to do about the rights of whores.
The Hair and his hairdresser would flee the country on his Airbus A310 but everyone he might visit is too busy for him these days. These things do have to be arranged in advance you know. Entertaining the Hair is an expensive proposition.
In musing last October about the possibility of the Hair resigning at his party’s Halloween convention, we saw it as more of a legacy question. Did he or did he not feel he had made an indelible mark on Canada?
Our guess was that he did not feel satisfied. And he still has more to apologize for than to crow about. His resource-based economic vision of Canada is a failure. His extremist right-wing supporters feel he has betrayed them. And no matter how he tries to manipulate elections, he has little hope of forcing the votes his way. Even the gerrymandering of this recent riding distribution has just led to fights within his party.
He could be sitting there in Ottawa right now, considering his mortality, thinking of his future. Does the Hair have a future?
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