If we disregard the fetish-like obsession conservatives in Canada have for the GOP and Tea Party crackpots south of the border and if we ignore the uncharacteristic of a Canadian mistakes their current leader has made, I’m talking about Stephen Harper, the cons may be onto something by refusing to ship our oil to the “greatest country in the world” through an assembly line-like Keystone pipeline.
I dare to dream, but the conservatives’ hero in Canada, Stephen Harper, whom just by default is the prime minister in this country, has just recently suggested selling our oil to China if the big in Washington can’t decide whether or not to approve the construction of the much needed cross-border oil vein.
This can be a good thing of course since it may show that Canada has some teeth and that we won’t let ourselves be bullied by big brother. However, considering the worship nature of Canadian conservatives of their ideological counterparts in the U.S., because yes Canadians in the west sporting cowboy hats can never be as conservatively stuck up or as deranged as the GOP or the Tea Party, we in the center, in particular us liberals, may be just wish-thinking.
Maybe Harper will turn around, we say. Maybe kissing the U.S.’s ass is just a phase our now experienced Prime Minister is going through, very much like a case of late puberty.
But who are we kidding? He is the man that successfully killed the long gun registry and afterwards demanded that all the records be destroyed. He is the iron fisted dear leader that, despite evidence supporting the contrary, thinks that harsher punishment equates with more effective rehabilitation, in particular with non-issues in Canada like pot-smoking. Also, let’s not forget about his team of duplicitous high-rolling SOBs like McKay and Flaherty, because the rat pack cannot be complete without a self-correcting finance minister and a spend-thrift defense mogul.
As for Harper actually listening to Canadians for the first time in his role as Prime Minister, would be I think too much to ask of the man. For him doing what’s right for the country is secondary to profit, whether he says he does it in the name of his children and electors or not does not matter, because his actions speak louder than his words. And his actions until now have shown otherwise.
Watch the CTV interview with Stephen Harper on the Keystone pipeline and the long gun registry here.
