“Just like that, the English-Canadian Conservative coalition is cemented, coast to coast.”

“…with barely a whisper of opposition”.

This is Harper’s first home run, bases loaded — and all the more remarkable because it isn’t being acknowledged as such, yet. Conservatives are too busy high-fiving each other in their suites at the Chateau Laurier to crow. Nor would they wish to: It wouldn’t agree with the image of virginal neutrality in which they impregnably cocooned this announcement. The NDP, deked out of their shorts, are sulking; the Bloc are gnashing their teeth; and the Liberals, in this as in so much else lately, are irrelevant.

The Cons, so good at conning the media and Canadians, do it again. It’s pure political theatre without effort it seems. They are playing this to the hilt and nobody is saying boo. It’s up to Postmedia to tell it like it is. That in itself tells you how this is bad news for us all.

Cross posted at Let Freedom Rain.