- Harper's Choice Between The Angel We Know and The Devil We Don't Know.

Submitted: 7:26am. PDT, 3 May '10
'Bravo, Michaelle Jean': Ignatieff's GG endorsement raises eyebrows, Stephen Thorne, The Canadian Press, 2/05/2010
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/bravo-michaelle-jean-ignatieffs-gg-endorsement-raises-eyebrows-92632749.html?commentConfirmed=y#comments

There seem to be an important aspect of this article that has been omitted.

If I recall, Ignatieff stated in his press conference that he had been asked by some reporter whom he had suggested and told them. The press conference was to clarify the situation.

As has been iterated on many occasions in many news media, Stephen Harper politicizes everything. This is no different.

To think that he will not make a political appointment for Governor General is simply folly.

To think that it will not be important is folly as well.

One need only look at the decisions Harper has called upon the GG to make in the last couple years.

Personally I do not think that Ms. Jean has done a particularly good job. In fact, her decisions to Prorogue Parliament were wrong, have had a negative impact on democracy in Canada and have set a very dangerous precedent. They will go down in Canadian History as two of the most significant decisions in this political era. Eating raw seal hart is a tough act to beat, but it is nothing in comparison. Her personal interest in Haiti is, of course, understandable and I am not sure that another GG wouldn't be as sympathetic, same too, another government. I am not sure I understand the 'Rwanda apology' or agree with it or that it represents my feelings on the matter.

However, I shudder to think who Harper will appoint.

Everyone in Canada ought to take a very serious concern in this issue, if we want to preserve and protect our way of Democracy anyway, and stand up and be counted on this one.

It would seem to me that Ignatieff is simply trying to put the decision on a holding pattern to hold off a political disaster.

Ignatieff may also be laying the ground work for dismissing a Harperite GG if he becomes Prime Minister.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html