Toronto Star | 18Jan2011 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/Letters/article/924191
What’s behind PM’s tantrum?
Re: Harper’s temper
tantrums costly for Canada, Opinion Jan. 16, 2011
Haroon Siddiqui cites Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “petulance and
demagoguery” as standing in the way of accommodation in trade relations
between Canada and the United Arab Emirates. Petulant demagoguery well
describes Senator Colin Kenny’s recent editorial savaging of our ties
with the oil-rich UAE.
In a recent op-ed, the Trudeau era appointee twice calls its leaders
“thugs” and decries their greed and duplicity, incompetence and
tyranny. The senator is so unabashed in his insults one can only
conclude Kenny sought not real remedial solutions to the impasse, but
rather to further befoul the diplomatic waters.
The question is: Why?
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore, Alta.