ROY GREEN EXCLUSIVE – Interview With Stephen Harper

One might think that this was an piece in The Onion, but no it is actually in the Globe and Mail. The Globe then is in the anyone but Harper camp but at the same time wants to elect the Conservatives.

The Globe and Mail stirred controversy on Friday by publishing an editorial endorsement that backed the Conservative party in Monday’s federal election, as long as Stephen Harper steps down after the vote.

The paper is endorsing the Conservative party, but not its leader Stephen Harper. Because a few of what I wrote in that April 30, 2011 column is downright eerie.

“It is not time for the Conservatives to go”, said the editorial. Again, I’d take issue with the idea that the Conservatives should get high marks for our economy.

In another freaky remark, the Globe editorial praised Harper for his “bullheadedness” and “strength of character”.

I could write a book on the lack of legal and moral integrity Canadian officials have demonstrated with their complicity in the rendition and torture of detainees, and how this wanna-be warlord Mr. Harper has contributed immeasurably to the hatred and violence that is now spreading rapidly across the world.

But who says the folks at the venerable newspaper can’t take a joke.

Speaking of people who’ve lost touch with reality, it seems the editorial endorsements have very little connection to the reporters and editors who work at Canadian newspapers.

“We endorse the economic stewardship of the Conservatives not the divisiveness”, he told another. The 2015 endorsement feels much the same way. They were full of vague, keep-on-track, fear-the-unknown, better-the-devil-we-know-than-don’t type lines of reasoning. The Globe does not say what it will do if Harper does not resign.

In an article on its website, the globe is quite critical of the Tory leader. It is not the party but Harper whom they are criticizing.

“The vitriol goes with the territory, but it would be a worse society if we chose to stop endorsing because of a negative reaction”, he wrote.