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Return Undeliverable Addresses to: PO Box 128, Winnipeg, Plane Truth About Simple Pleasures MB, Canada R3C 2G1, Email: [email protected] HERIZONS SUMMER 2004 1 first word BY PENNI MITCHELL HOT AIR POLICY To hear the Liberals tell it, we should be quaking in Preston Manning over whether the Reform Party our gumboots, our Birkenstocks, or our whirly girly should be driven by the party’s grassroots or by its flip-flops. A very scary thing is in our midst. leadership (Harper favoured a top-down approach). The scary thing is not a shipping magnate with a The son of an Imperial Oil executive, Harper went on scallywag’s reputation for business. It is not that the to wrestle control of the Alliance Party from Mr. Jet Ski office of a former finance minister reportedly and to engineer an amalgam of the Alliance with a attempted to influence the awarding of federal weakened Tory party under by Peter McKay. Still, research grants. It is not federal surpluses created on Harper stands little chance of becoming prime minis- account of an Employment Insurance surplus engi- ter because Canadians, by and large, do not support his neered by disqualifying tens of thousands of workers views. Nonetheless, Harper has done Martin a huge from EI benefits. It is not the undermining of Ottawa’s favour: allowing him to lay claim to the middle ground. role as keeper of national standards that occurred In the Winnipeg granola belt riding where I live, when the Canada Assistance Plan was dismantled. It scary Stephen stories are being served up at dinner isn’t the largest corporate tax cuts in history brought in parties and in coffee shops. Even some of my NDP under Liberal finance minister Paul Martin. friends have taken the bait. You would be wrong, too, to think that global warm- “Reform, Conservative, whatever—Stephen ing is the scary thing—although you would be getting Harper is pretty scary,” said an NDP friend recently. warmer. The Prime Minister has not introduced a “I think I might vote Liberal.” plan to meet Canada’s Kyoto target, but that doesn’t “What?” I said. “Your vote only counts in the rid- mean the Liberals have not released a hot air policy in ing you live in. Who is your member of parliament?” time for a federal election. “Pat Martin,” she said. An outspoken critic of the The scary thing is not Paul Martin’s past, but Liberals’ shift to the right, Martin is the NDP MP Stephen Harper’s future. who, when targeted by fundamentalists for support- It is a brilliant strategy. Until he found an external ing gay marriage, replied, “Jesus was very firm in his enemy, Martin’s only visible plan to cement power condemnation of the Pharisees, and I answer to a was to diss Jean Chretien’s legacy and ditch Chretien higher power than these assholes.” loyalists. Now that Liberal organizers are busy I wanted to know, “why would you vote out an NDP demonizing Stephen Harper’s right-wing beliefs, MP to give more power to Paul Martin?” voters may be less inclined to notice that the Liberal “Well, voting NDP seems kind of risky,” she replied. party has veered to the right. Witness both an With early polls indicating Liberal party support at increase in former Conservative and Alliance MPs 40 percent, there seems little doubt that the Liberals drifting to the Liberals, while left Liberals like will form the next government. With fewer and fewer Sheila Copps, Jane Stewart, Elinor Caplan, John moderates left in that party, the new Liberals are Manley and Alan Rock are on the move. Even Joe indistinguishable—at least economically—from the Clark appears to be a Liberal now, calling Martin old conservatives. That is scary. But invoking the “the lesser of two evils.” fear of a Harper takeover in order to oust leftist MPs The other evil of course, is Stephen Harper. Dubbed who provide a critical balance in Parliament strikes a ‘mergers and acquisitions specialist,’ he was one of me as downright diabolical.