Nobody expects humour on the editorial pages of Toronto’s Globe and Mail. The old and creaky building on Front Street has never had time for humour while reporting on the financial health of the nation. And it will never do to set the nabobs of Bay Street laughing. And that was what happened last Friday when the lead editorial suggested that the Conservative Party could rule if they just got rid of the incumbent prime minister.
Every time you spend a minute or so contemplating that piece of wisdom, you end up confused. The problem is not in removing the Hair. We absolutely agree with that. The problem is contemplating what is left.
Is there any other substance to the party left if the Hair is removed? Where we live there are new candidates for the Conservative Party. They are non-entities and only running to support the Hair’s program. They are neither thinkers nor doers. They are zombies. What kind of a party is that to vote for?
Look at the Hair’s cabinet. His Finance Minister will not even win his Toronto riding. The guy who delivered the Progressive Conservatives to the Hair’s Alliance/Reform was Elmer MacKay’s son Peter. He betrayed the soft heart of the Conservative Party and has quit politics as of this election.
And where are John Baird, James Moore and others who might be capable of a coherent thought? There is no potential cabinet in that novitiate of nobodies.
You simply cannot re-elect the Hair and you can hardly give the Conservatives another mandate without the Hair. And if the Globe and Mail is thinking Minister of Everything-Else Jason Kenney can fill the breach, we have a serious problem.
The Globe and Mail is building this silly house of cards based on the supposed strength of the Conservatives in managing Canada’s economy. This is a strange appeal they find in lying, cheating and stealing. The Hair has been managing our way to the poorhouse. You cannot seriously say that a Canadian economy based on exploiting the Athabasca tar sands is an effective long-term strategy.
And as much as the Globe and Mail espouses laissez-faire economics, it is not working worth a damn for Canadians. After nine years of watching the Hair at work, the Globe and Mail needs to understand that leadership of a nation has to include caring about the citizens. We do not live well just on supposed economic success.
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