On Friday I was in Calgary where Harper sat down with hockey great turned victims rights advocate Sheldon Kennedy.
The two talked about what the Conservatives have done on crime so far, what they plan on doing in the future. There was a special focus on protecting children and putting victims and their families first.
Some of the announcement was a regurgitation of past promises but coming as it did so close, geographically and time wise, to the murder of Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, the little feisty two year-old that has been in the headlines, you would think this would rate top coverage.
Well, you’d be wrong.
That day the story was that Stephen Harper had said “old-stock Canadians” a term the Laurentian elites quickly dubbed racist. Never mind that Trudeau had used it in a media interview, that Stephane Dion had used it in Parliament, that it had been used by the media to describe Mulcair’s deep family roots in Quebec – Harper was a racist.
It is the type of assumption the Laurentian Elites quietly agree on. They nod knowingly when it is stated outright or inferred. It doesn’t matter if it is true, it doesn’t matter that Harper’s government has maintained high immigration numbers for a decade, that those immigrants come from quite the diverse set of countries – those Laurentians know Harper is a racist and the media party are a bunch of Laurentian elites.
Besides, crime, the issue the Conservatives were talking about in their announcement isn’t an issue to them, unless it involves a Conservative senator and then, like refugees last week, it becomes THE issue, the only issue.
