If only

Sure, it's a tragedy that Canada is governed by a party which is going out of its way to deride the very idea of making decisions based on evidence rather than prejudice and wilful ignorance.

But there's perhaps an even greater tragedy in the fact that the Harper Cons haven't yet reached the point of believing their own rhetoric. Because if they ran their political operations with the contempt for accurate information their cabinet ministers spout every day, the Cons would be fighting tooth and nail to so much as cling to their seats in Calgary.