She may be a lost cause, but I have a suggestion for Harper enthusiast/Simcoe Grey Conservative M.P. Kellie Leitch, about whom I have written previously on this blog. The former medical doctor turned defender of the indefensible, who is one of a series of rotating
Re: MP Brent Rathgeber leaves Conservative fold over lack of accountability, June 7
I thought we would never see the day when a member of the so-called Conservative party spoke truth to power. Finally, someone within Harper's own party could no longer stand the status quo.
Finally, someone within this big, diverse country objected to the dictatorship of the man at the top. A prime minister's job is to represent Canadians, all of them, and not just himself and narrow business interests.
To do that you have to listen and let people speak. But Stephen Harper does not. Diverse voices are not heard even within his own caucus. The only voices he hears are holdovers from the ruinous Mike Harris years in Ontario. Everyone else is silenced.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Brent Rathgeber for finally naming what the rest of us have seen so clearly. But, of course, it gets coverage and has more credibility when it comes from within.
Let's hope the other “trained seals” step out of their comfort zones, stick up for their country and desert the current dictatorship.
UPDATE: I see Ms. Leitch continued to show her party fealty today, as she 'addressed' concerns levelled by Mark Eyking, the Liberal MP for Sydney-Victoria, that the federal government is denying the E.I. appeals of fishermen in Bay St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia.
One of life's mysteries, Lorne. Why would someone like Kellie who had worked hard to qualify herself in one of the most respected professions, and graduate from what is generally regarded as the top medical school in the country, be content with defending the indefensible?
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see her repeating her senseless talking points, I wonder what her former medical colleagues must be thinking of her. How could someone who appeared so intelligent do this to herself?
Did she do it for power or money or both? Or is this an admission that she was in the wrong profession previously? After all, she now appears most suited to one of the most disdained professions: the politician.
Your comments, Anonymous, echo the kind I have asked myself about her and the sycophants who seem to have been so willing to surrender even the appearance of integrity to be at one with the Party and its leader.
DeleteShe always was a lost cause with no integrity, represents a riding she has no ties to, a political hitwoman, the Dr. Kevorkian of the Conservative caucus administering death to those hapless unfortunate Conservatives who have fallen out of favour with fearless leader, yet still cling to political life and won't just shut up and die already, a bloody Klingon who rises to office by dispatching her predecessor. The hatchet job she did on former Conservative MP Helena Guergis, chased out of the Conservative Party like some pariah while they still clung to the likes of Duffy and Wallin, tells a great deal about her sense of ethics.
ReplyDeleteI can think of nothing to add to your withering assessment of Ms. Leitch, Rene.
DeleteGold's comment about holdovers from the Harris regime is spot on, Lorne.
ReplyDeleteI was just this moment reading your blog entry for today, Owen, and one wonders if a return to something approaching progressive Conservatism is possible if more party members speak out like Rathbeger did. If others do not find their courage, polarizing perversions like the Harper regime seem fated to continue, until they face electoral decimation.
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