Scheer Nerve

To read Scheer's concession speech is to contemplate lost promise and opportunity. Scheer said that Canada was built on Conservative values and would get back on track, get people out of poverty with them, amongst these being balanced budgets, free markets and small government. Would have been nice of he had come anywhere near close to waxing that eloquently about actual conservatism DURING the campaign. Balanced budgets were only to occur five years from now. Tax cuts were only for the poor. Free markets are..."Oh, sorry, I was too busy drinking my milk when I tried to speak on that".

One wag said that Scheer should not be blamed for losing, but the Party's "lame" platform. Oh, hey, wait a minute, doesn't the Leader of a Party have SOME say on what's in the Platform? Excuses will not cut it, sir. Start rediscovering those conservative ideas that are proven to work and learn to talk about them eloquently or...just who would take over if he left? Baird, MacKay, Rempel, Poilievre? OMG Can we start that National Jason Kenney Clone Program soon? Again, I nominate Max Bernier as Scheer's official ventriloquist as Bernier does need a job now. And, sadly, I am not really sure that passion, conviction and vision can be taught or put on.

Then you read him talking about how Canada is about freedom and quoting Dief's Pledge of Allegiance,"I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand up for what I think right, free to oppose what I think wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country..".   Scheer quoted this in his speech.  One is reminded of how we all, not least of which, Scheer himself, failed to live up to its credo of freedom and, in so doing, failed in our final freedom, that to vote. In Quebec, the second freedom does not hold, in the House of Commons, the third and fourth freedoms did not obtain and everywhere we are simply not free to speak without fear on most of the issues our governors are supposed to tackle. But Scheer's fear was the more egregious because he was the one person in this country who could have made that Canadian Credo of Freedom live again.

Laurier would have wept.