Stephen Harper to skip 'red Tory' Flora MacDonald's funeral
If Flora MacDonald had been born 20 years later, she might well have been Canada’s first female prime minister. As it was, the Cape Breton-born politician, who died early Sunday morning in her 90th year, broke down the invisible door that barred women from high office in Canada.
The political path she blazed led her to become the first woman in the western world to serve as foreign minister and the first to challenge for the leadership of Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party.
Who managed to prove in her long and excellent life that once you could be both: Conservative and decent. And who stood up for our precious Canadian values until the day she died.
So although it disgusts me, it doesn't surprise me, that this miserly message was all Stephen Harper managed to write or excrete to mark her passing.
Can you believe it? He couldn't even spell her name right.
But then of course he hated her and everything she represented. And he surely must have known that she despised him for what he did to her party, and has done to her country.
As she made clear in this 2003 Star article, shortly after she found out that Peter MacKay had sold out her Progressive Conservatives to Stephen Harper's ghastly red neck Alliance.
My reaction to the agreement in principle, signed secretly by MacKay and Stephen Harper in October, 2003, was first of all one of incredulity, then anger that the party decisions so strongly expressed in Edmonton and endorsed by MacKay during the leadership campaign could be so easily jettisoned.
Further, the fact that he would willingly preside over the demolition of a historic 150-year-old institution that has done so much to build this country leaves me asking how he defines integrity and principle.
Made it clear what she thought of that betrayal, and let those scummy Reform Cons know that she would not be marginalized or silenced...
If Flora MacDonald had been born 20 years later, she might well have been Canada’s first female prime minister. As it was, the Cape Breton-born politician, who died early Sunday morning in her 90th year, broke down the invisible door that barred women from high office in Canada.
The political path she blazed led her to become the first woman in the western world to serve as foreign minister and the first to challenge for the leadership of Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party.
Who managed to prove in her long and excellent life that once you could be both: Conservative and decent. And who stood up for our precious Canadian values until the day she died.
So although it disgusts me, it doesn't surprise me, that this miserly message was all Stephen Harper managed to write or excrete to mark her passing.
Can you believe it? He couldn't even spell her name right.
But then of course he hated her and everything she represented. And he surely must have known that she despised him for what he did to her party, and has done to her country.
As she made clear in this 2003 Star article, shortly after she found out that Peter MacKay had sold out her Progressive Conservatives to Stephen Harper's ghastly red neck Alliance.
My reaction to the agreement in principle, signed secretly by MacKay and Stephen Harper in October, 2003, was first of all one of incredulity, then anger that the party decisions so strongly expressed in Edmonton and endorsed by MacKay during the leadership campaign could be so easily jettisoned.
Further, the fact that he would willingly preside over the demolition of a historic 150-year-old institution that has done so much to build this country leaves me asking how he defines integrity and principle.
Made it clear what she thought of that betrayal, and let those scummy Reform Cons know that she would not be marginalized or silenced...
