Canadians Starting To Catch On

In the news this morning, I caught one small, but rather irritating comment from Harper where he tried to pin something back on the previous Liberal government when a question was raised about his own government's actions. This is a fairly classic tactic for the Conservative government, and it is irritating as hell because it tells me that the CPoC government won't accept responsibility for their own actions.

Fortunately, Canadians seem to be starting to clue in, and Harper's rankings are slipping.

In an interesting follow up to the exoneration of Maher Arar, we now find Ottawa wanting to overhaul the RCMP. How interesting. As I pointed out a few days ago, a big part of the problem is not the RCMP, but the "anti terrorism" legislation that set out very lax rules around sharing information with the United States. If you do not require the information to be well validated before it gets out, then you can expect problems like this. This is sadly exactly what I had expected from the CPoC government. It is inconceivable for them to think that the US might abuse information.

In a similarly thick-headed comment, Harper thinks the fatalities in Afghanistan have "strengthened" the military. I'm not at all sure what his reasoning is, but I imagine the friends, family and colleagues of the deceased might think a little differently. If he's thinking in the rather medieval headspace of "blooding your troops" (hardening them to the awfulness of battle by being in battle), I think he needs his head examined.