JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: CANADA’S STEPHEN HARPER DOES ANOTHER ARCTIC PHOTO-OP – A MONEY-SAVING SUGGESTION

 

 

 

JOHN CHUCKMAN

POSTED RESPONSE TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO’S GLOBE AND MAIL

That’s all Harper ever does…build momentum…political momentum.

That’s why all the vacuous photo-ops in parkas.

Maybe they could just build a little fake arctic set in Ottawa, all refrigerated and with a few Inuit kept around in native costume, for filming these ridiculously meaningless efforts.

You know, like the fake lake for the G-20?

John Baird, baring his teeth, could pass for a sled dog too if the camera did only a head shot.

Sovereignty in the North has only one serious threat, and that is the hyper-militaristic United States.

But our Boy in Ottawa not only is the most servile in our history towards that country and its goals, he is ready with agreements on our borders which will only further and quickly erode claims to sovereignty.

If you recognize the importance of our North and its future to us, you cannot support Stephen Harper.

But you do very much support Stephen Harper.

So this is all empty blather, just as his photo-ops are.
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If Harper genuinely wants a research facility in the North, we know there are plenty of unemployed government scientists to man it.