Stephen Harper: The Party Line

Stephen Harper Dept: On the other hand, since the U.S. election the press here has been filled with admiring commentary on how the Republicans could learn a thing or two from Stephen Harper. Didn t he purge his party of any vestige of ideology, ruthlessly suppressing those MPs who did not stick to the party line namely, that they had none?, according to Vancouver Sun. As for the Liberals, well, we know what fate awaits them, if they don t smarten up: third party status. Could anything be more ghastly? The sooner the party picks someone popular as its leader, the better. Should some pedants insist on first debating what the party stands for, they will only get what they deserve. For we all know what happens to parties that stand for something something, that is, other than the status quo, or whatever the other parties stand for, or both and i keep reading that Stephen Harper s caucus is getting out of control. The evidence for this, I have to say, is scant various unnamed MPs vowing to do something unspecific at some unstated point in future but what s more notable is the tone of disapproval, rather as people used to cluck about a husband who couldn t control his wife. And not only the Conservatives. The NDP is also praised for having moved to the centre where elections are won , steering well clear, under its new helmsman, of any stray icebergs of principle that might impede its voyage to power. When the Broadbent Institute, a party think tank, issued a report on what it called the growing problem of inequality in Canadian society, party insiders were applauded for their shrewd disavowal of interest. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.