Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Do you feel sorry for Toronto yet?
Posted: June 23, 2009, 12:13 PM by Chris Selley
Stand by for an apology
Thankfully, opinions from Ottawa are starting to peter out for the summer.
In The Globe and Mail, Scott Reid offers summer to-do lists for both the Liberals and Conservatives. The most novel item on either list is a big showy Quebec City apology from Stephen Harper for “attack[ing] the arts,” for “imply[ing] culture is an indulgence,” and for “attack[ing] the coalition in the way he did, insofar as it left the impression that he equates Quebec pride and nationalism with a separatist impulse.” Yes. Well. Reid freely concedes he’s a Liberal voter, of course. (You may remember his salivating battle-cry during The Madness: “First things first: take him out.”) But we don’t quite see that happening. Quite apart from anything else, as Paul Wells predicted first and as has become increasingly obvious since, the Conservatives will probably run their next campaign explicitly against a hypothetical Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition.
We’re beginning to suspect the Toronto Star’s James Travers may already have fled Ottawa, having pre-filed perhaps a dozen differently-worded columns about how buggered-up our federal government is. In each of the dozen cases he’ll be entirely correct, but it’s getting a bit much. Here’s today’s, if you’re interested.
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