Double Dipping Emerson

Trade Minister David Emerson is in an apparent conflict as Canada's lead negotiator in the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber trade dispute because he still has a financial stake in forestry giant Canfor Corp.,

No See Um's

David Emerson is managing to be like the proverbial no-see-um's that plague Northern Manitoba and Ontario. Or perhaps he is hiding behind his hands, peeking out of his fingers hoping that the justly irate citizens of this constituency would go away.

Our Great Leader

"Yep our newly elected Great Leader is looking more and more like another Great Leader, sans the moustache, as Right of Centre Ice writes; "Stalinization" of Harper's government begins "

Harper the Autocrat

King Stephen's rejection of the ethics commissioners request he answers questions about the Emerson affair shows that being an autarch is his personal political predilection. Always has been. The Harpocrite is just practicing good old Alberta style politics in Ottawa.