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Dan Gardner: Who’s afraid of the hidden agenda?


I’m not very good at reading minds, and so, absent other evidence, I can’t say if Michael Ignatieff is secretly planning to defile all that is good and righteous by forming a post-election coalition government with socialists, separatists, and satanists. I suppose he may. Stephen Harper sure sounds convinced. “They will deny it every day of the campaign,” he recently told a reporter. “The day after, they’ll do it.”

I don’t know how Harper knows that. I guess he’s psychic.

And he’s not the only one. The opposition benches are filled with Amazing Kreskins. They all know that if Stephen Harper wins a majority in the next election he will restore capital punishment, ban abortion, outlaw evolution, make church attendance mandatory, and otherwise turn Canada into a bigger, colder Alabama. Liberals lynched. Jack Layton hunted with bloodhounds. The editors of the Toronto Star, in orange jumpsuits and shackles, collecting roadside garbage while Sheriff Ford picks his teeth with an unregistered shotgun. This is Stephen Harper’s hidden agenda. Read More »