Prime Minister Harper drops the gloves in defense of his Ottawa Senators.
No, this is not a hockey story…or is it? In response to trash talk from the opposition and, perhaps in defense of the cronies of questionable character he appointed to the “Great Senaten” he had so often promised to eliminate, the PM counters his opponents’ ritual attempt to wedgie the sweater over his baby blues, with a ritual of his own. He prorogues parliament (a.k.a. invoking a cut and run strategy). Coincidentally (or maybe in deference to his becoming the first PM to score a hat trick in the arena of dodging controversy by proroguing Parliament) the PM takes the additional month of paid leave he has granted himself (and his Minister of “Government employees are abusing their sick leave”) to publish his book on the history of hockey. Call it hypocrisy, hockey, or coincidence but, there can be no denying that, after smearing his Liberal opponent in the last election as an arrogant, eyebrow auteur – hypocrite who was apparently, therefore, unfit to run a country, our incumbent PM may have finally outed himself as another arrogant, albeit lowbrow auteur – hypocrite.