- Tom Flanagan: Stephen Harper, a Closet Con

Posted: 5/25/2010 10:48:51 AM The Globe and Mail
Tom Flanagan, Down with big government, 25 May '10
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/down-with-big-government/article1576419/ Tab 11

Ton Flanagan, "Calgary cowboys . . . Toronto gays".

Just exactly what are you insinuating, Sir!

If I lived in Toronto I would take exception to this. You're not trying to feed into cultural-regional conflict are you.

Tom Flanagan, once again your analysis is founded on faulty logic. This is no more than patting yourself on the back and trying to explain that you were 'Right' (pun untended).

Did Mike Harris and Preston Manning get this 'minimist government' idea from you and your cronies from the US (Oh, yah, I forgot,you were born in Ottawa, weren't you, oh, no I was right - morally that is - that's Ottawa, Illinois).

It's hard to imagine that Harris dreamed it up himself (reality check: Mike Harris, single handedly in the 90's - early 2000's laid waste the Ontario infrastructure with a, typical, extreme right-wing heavy hand, resulting in tragedies like Walkerton, Ipperwash. Sorry, it wasn't exactly single handedly, he did have help from Jim Flaherty, John Baird, Tony Clement, Peter Van Loan, Guy Giorno).

The problem is that Stephen Harper is a extreme right wing ideologue who draws his core die-hard support from right-wing extremists whose epicentre is in Calgary.

But, Harper with a minority dares not bring in, in a open, direct, transparent fashion his right wing agenda for fear that he will wake up the vast majority of Canadians that are not extreme right wing and get the boot forthwith.

The extreme right wing are getting very 'testy' about Harper standing up and declaring his true agenda in an open and transparent fashion, very understandable. This, of course is causing fissures in Alberta and other regions. The Harper policies on banning funding to Toronto's Gay Rights Parade, against family planning internationally and withdrawing funding to NGO's that provide, where legal, info on abortion, there are lots of other examples, but I only get 2000 char's) are the manifestations of this.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.htm