Surely everyone remembers the "good old days". Back when Lyin' Brian Mulroney was Conservative Prime Minister of this fair domain. Back in the days when the Tories ran "tail-gating" schemes based on government contracting in Quebec. Back in the good old days when cash was king, so to speak!
Well, let's remember one more of Lyin' Brian's more brilliant "strategic" moves. It was Muldoon who brought the ultimate separatist, St. Lucien Bouchard, into the federal government. First the dim-witted Muldoon made him Ambassador to France in 1985. Then, in 1988, in a move to counter the aforementioned bad run of publicity he was having in Quebec the hapless Mulroney made Bouchard his environment minister. Nothing like a separatist at the Big Table.
So fast forward to today. We have another Conservative PM...Steve Harper...and we have another run of bad publicity for the government. Presto! Harper appoints another former separatist Premier of Quebec, Pierre-Marc Johnson, to work on..ta da!...the Bali environment conference. Just like the good old days!
We all know that Johnboy Baird and Boss Harp need a lot of help...but the similarities to Muldoon are striking and not surprising. After all, it is hard for Harper to shed his mentor's style. Just like the good old days!
Monday, December 03, 2007
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Pierre-Marc Johnson is a born again federalist, (talk he was already that when he was PQ leader is abundant) but I am surprised Harper didn't take Duceppe with him, or have taxpayers fly the entire Bloc caucus for that matter. Hmmm, Mulroney makes a separatists one of this senior ministers, Harper gives the balance of power to the separatists, the irony only occurred to me now, thank you!
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