Harper: Never Mind the Results

I've theorized before that the opposition parties should highlight accountability and effectiveness as a key point of distinction between a coalition government and the Harper Cons. Now, Deceivin' Stephen has made it clear that he doesn't have any particular results in mind for the billions of dollars he hopes to be able to shovel out the door:

Harper declined to get into specifics about how many jobs will be created through massive government spending, which includes $7 billion for infrastructure spending and $2 billion for public housing projects, among other initiatives.

"I think that the game of predicting jobs is very dangerous" said Harper, adding that there are too many influences on the economy to pin down a specific number.

Now, one would think that even a government which had to be pushed into admitting the need for stimulus spending to get the economy back would at least take some look at what it hoped to accomplish with that spending.

But Harper apparently doesn't have any qualms about presenting a budget vital both to Canada's economy recovery and to his party's survival without even a hint of what results might be expected. And that should offer another compelling piece of evidence that leaving the Cons in power is a sure recipe for even more mismanagement at a time when Canada can least afford it.