This is a little blog to remind Canadian voters about the white horse the Reform/Alliance/Progressive Conservative party rode into Ottawa on, and the black horse the Conservative party is riding on now.
I heard Preston Manning speak at the University of Toronto around 1989. Manning created a strong, principled, redneck party of Western conservatives and libertarians. Stephen Harper would later harshly and publicly criticize Manning for excess spending for hiring a personal hairdresser and buying some new suits. Harper capitalized on this stab in the back to take over the party. Later, after vowing to never merge the Reform party with other conservative parties in Canada, Harper merged the Reform party with the other conservative parties in Canada.
These days Stephen Harper has his own personal hairdresser, who may also be his astrologist. He shrugs off billion-dollar mistakes in F-35 fighter jet estimates, and has no problem blowing $1 billion on a weekend's security for the G20 Conference while letting the NSA spy on visiting diplomats and making the largest mass arrests in Canadian history.
Meanwhile we read squishy news reports about how Harper the hockey fanatic flies to hockey games in the USA, and has his car flown to China, all on our dime. This week we find out CSIS has been spending millions spying on anti-oil-pipeline protestors.
That's why Deceivin' Stephen's earned his name, The Harpercrite.
