Time for the feds to grow up
Prime Minister Stephane Dion?
They have got to be kidding.
Here we are -- on the brink, maybe, of the most severe global economic downturn in a century. The auto industry is imploding. Commodity prices and home prices are in freefall.
Overseas the Jihadist terrorist threat is back, with a vengeance.
It's impossible to say just yet what impact the attacks in Mumbai will have on international peace and security, but the risk of further bloodshed has just increased exponentially.
And now we turn to Ottawa, where our fearless leaders are -- wait for it -- contemplating taking down the government. Why? Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government isn't throwing gobs of money around to stimulate the economy -- nevermind the highly politicized proposal to end the $1.95-per-vote subsidy to political parties, potentially a deathblow to the cash-strapped Liberals.
They've responded like wet hornets. The Liberals have formed a coalition with Jack Layton's NDP and Gilles Duceppe's Bloc Quebecois.
Have they all lost their minds?
Stephane Dion wasn't good enough for Canadian voters. He's been essentially fired as leader of his party.
Let's make him PM! Come on people!
Who's he backed by? Jack and the Bloc.
That's right, the same Jack Layton who wants to cancel all the tax cuts and Duceppe, leader of the party that wants to separate from the country.
We had our election, six weeks ago. Its result was unequivocal.
Political dirty tricks aside, the Tory approach to the economic crisis has been relatively sensible so far.
And the Liberals don't have their house in order. While supposedly contemplating forming a government, the Michael Ignatieff and Bob Rae camps are squabbling among themselves about who would lead it.
Enough. Six weeks ago Harper promised to stop behaving like Attila the Hun. He must do so. And the Liberal brain trust must stop behaving like idiots.
As MPs, these people earn, at minimum, $170,000 a year of taxpayers' money. They owe us better than this.
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