Lessons of the week
1. Canada vs. the US — as has been usual for the past five years or so, Canada is right.
2. Re that Vikileaks thing — it was mobilizing libertarians that actually was key to getting C-30 reconsidered, not going after the minister’s (messy!) private life. The #TellVicEverything campaign was cleverer and more effective. The other part, well, if we have bad luck, it’ll mean we’re that much closer to a massive data-dump on MP’s sex scandals and the end of the Canadian ceasefire on the issue.
3. Dave hasn’t learnt his lesson from Canadian history. Don’t do it, Dave! (Really, don’t.)
4. Re the Trudeau thing — Coyne got it right last night on At Issue: the Liberals simply do not believe Stephen Harper is a legitimate prime minister. (11:50 mark.)
He is just some nightmare. And they want their Canada back!
5. Victory!
I have a little tiny violin of sympathy for the Grits. It always sucks to be the party of opposition (or almost-opposition) and see the government do things one doesn’t agree with.
But that’s part and parcel of living in a democracy. The guys you vote for aren’t always going to win. And it’s not going to be the end of the world when they don’t.
If the Grits cave to nostalgia and (at some point) make this guy their leader, he will be the living embodiment of the old gibe about Rhodes Scholars—a bright young man with a great future behind him.
le Dauphin, that is.
(I should have clarified that in the original comment.)
Canada was ahead of the US for the ten years before the last five years, too. And see if Harper can ever catch up to one of Martin’s balanced budgets.
I suppose who needs long gun registries when you can read emails?