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Man, these Conservatives sure know how to lie live the high life. Tuxedos, lobsters, jets, search-and-rescue helicopter rides.
I should be born again as a Conservative. Like waking up one morning and realizing I didn’t have to be accountable to anyone or anything. I could do as I please, dine like a king, get chauffeured around at my whim, dress to kill, wave a wand and have Canadians jump when I say jump, preside over a media in my pocket and never, ever have to say I’m sorry. All on someone else’s dime.
UPDATE: You know the right has done very well, especially in the US, by identifying its own weaknesses and applying them to the opposition. Here with MacKay we have the very thing Conservatives accuse the left of being – elite.
And here you have the perfect opportunity for the NDP or the Liberals to adopt a strategy of accusing the Cons of ‘elitism’. You have that clip of appointed Senator Mike Duffy in a tux looking down upon an elected politician. The talking points are all arranged in a convenient row. Ads are begging to be made. But will anything be done? Of course not. Because neither party has the will nor the gumption to know how.
Cross posted at Let Freedom Rain.
UPDATE: From the Comments:
You did not mention this: “Harper purchased four diplomatic ePassports for himself, his wife and two children late last year, at $225 each, for a total bill of $900.
The cost was picked up by taxpayers through his department, the Privy Council Office, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.”
The link for the above is: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/first-versions-of-canadas-new-electronic-passport-carry-hefty-price-tag-130070038.html
You did not mention this: “Harper purchased four diplomatic ePassports for himself, his wife and two children late last year, at $225 each, for a total bill of $900.
The cost was picked up by taxpayers through his department, the Privy Council Office, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.”
The link for the above is: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/first-versions-of-canadas-new-electronic-passport-carry-hefty-price-tag-130070038.html
Why do taxpayers have to pay for his family’s passports?
MacKay probably didn’t want other people to know so he took Canada’s Wonder Woman jet.
GRAPHIC: How do other world leaders fly? Interesting info for you perusal.
Just exactly why does Mr. Harper need more security than everyone else in the whole wide world? Is there something we don’t know? Does he have a guilty conscience? Paranoia? What has he done to feel so fearful? Is this why he is so obsessed with the military? Because he feel so vulnerable and like he really, really needs them? Or is he just a fearful, fearful man? Canadian tax payers want to know.
I have always wondered, as a person who has generations of military in her family, if any member of Mr. Harper’s family has ever served in the military..
Greg Weston opined today that this story will have legs for a long time to come as a steady stream of information leaks out. But nobody seems all that interested in where the first leak to Bob Fife at CTV came from. If it wasn’t the military, and it wasn’t DND, then who?
Well I certainly hope this story has legs. But seriously, media reaction has been tepid. It’s like they discovered McKay taking home parliamentary stationary to use for personal letters. Years ago, when the media had teeth or an appetite to tear down the Liberals, this kind of entitlement and abuse would be front and centre stage for weeks on end.