Commentary needed for PM
Prime Minister Stephen Harper greets residents in South Surrey Tuesday evening, as protestors picket behind him along 8 Avenue.
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Updated: August 13, 2009 4:23 PM
Editor:
Re: Harper zings opponents, ignores protesters, Aug. 7.
When is the popular press going to “zing” Stephen Harper and friends about all the big tales they keep telling us?
For instance, your paper quotes Harper saying that in the last election “Canadians did not want a Liberal government propped up by the Bloc Quebecois.” And in the same breath he states,“This Conservative government wasn’t re-elected in spite of the economic crisis. It was elected because of it.”
Of course, who knew this until after the election?
Given, he and his finance minister had vehemently denied any whiff of an economic crisis during the October 2008 campaign? It was only after the election, when the Conservatives won a minority government, that we got the bad news about our economy.
So this is when the Liberals sided with the NDP and the Bloc to defeat the Harper government’s finance budget. This is a far cry from being “propped up by the Bloc Quebecois.”
However, some might say Harper propped up his own government using the process of prorogation of Parliament to avoid a democratic vote on the issue.
Furthermore, I don’t think Canadians voted for a Conservative government because of the deficit crisis or in spite of one, but only because Harper tells big tales while the mass media idly stands by without comment.
E. Kearns, White Rock
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