Prime Ministerial Slacking
According to this Globe and Mail article political ‘insiders’ are suggesting the Prime Minister has no desire to call a spring election. And you know what? With the kind of work ethic the Harper Conservatives are showing; I am not surprised in the slightest.
Forget all that speculation about a spring election.
Stephen Harper has no intention of calling an election or engineering the defeat of his minority government any time soon, insiders close to the Prime Minister say. “The chances of hell freezing over in March are better than us doing something to trigger an election,” one source said flatly.
“There’s no appetite [for an election] in the government, there’s no appetite in the PM and there’s no appetite in the Canadian public.” Rather, Mr. Harper intends to keep his focus resolutely fixed on the “issues that matter to Canadians,” first among which is steering the country through the fragile economic recovery, the insider said on condition of anonymity.
How Harper intends to keep his focus resolutely fixed on ‘issues that matter to Canadians’ when he just decided to not show up for work for a few months boggles my mind. Maybe its because I am a conservative but there is something fiscally irresponsible and morally offensive about being forced to pay the salaries for a group of slackers who just decided they cannot be bothered to show at work for a couple of months. Maybe everyone else in this country is fine with this – but it just doesn’t sit well with me.
