Here’s the thing about Prime Minister Stephen Harper: He’s beginning to garner a resume he can be proud of and no one can take away, regardless of what happens from here on.
He’s been in office four years. He’s made mistakes — some whoppers. But he’s also got a few things, some quite big things, right. Especially recently. Only the most churlish of his political opponents will deny it.
This was very evident Thursday in the PM’s live cast on YouTube. The web stuff? Good on the PMO for jumping into the 21st century. But that’s not what was intriguing about the speech.
Nor was the text itself particularly special. There was a moment of near-poetry — “Just as the rain falls on the good and bad alike, so the floodwaters of recession have risen across the globe”— but it was modest stuff next to the soaring orations of an Obama or even a Tony Blair.
Here’s what was interesting: Harper had real achievements to talk about.
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Den Tandt brings new meaning to the old expression about damning someone with faint praise.