Friday, June 01, 2007

On diversions

One of the greatest dangers of an undue focus on personality politics is the substance that gets left behind. And so it is with yesterday's controversy over Stephen Harper's ludicrous attempt to pretend that Stephane Dion's lack of military service is even faintly relevant, as Harper seems to have managed to turn attention entirely away from any meaningful policy discussions - which yesterday included the NDP's follow-up push to get the amended C-30 before the House of Commons.

Hopefully the distraction will only be temporary. But for now it looks like Harper has succeeded in turning Canada's political attention toward personal insults - and it'll be up the opposition to get the spotlight back on both the Cons' failings which affect Canadians directly, and the potential to do better.

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