Slava was spouting "I'm undecided" during the last federal election. This latest is just as disingenuous saying he's not opposed to Harper, just merely the way Harper has appointed senators using the same (lack of) criteria every other PM in history has had.
It's a tired joke frankly. AB elects senators and they get appointed. No other province does, so it is his prerogative to pick one for them. Big shock that it is someone engaged in the party politics and shares the same views on policy. Duh! So why not try to get someone already gainfully employed, already settled in their geographic region, not currently engaged (actively or otherwise) to take a Senate seat? For what? Why the effort? Why bother? Ethics has nothing to do with it. There is nothing ethically wrong to appoint a second or third place candidate to the Senate. It is a different job, the criteria (or lack of, again) is different. If electoral democracy applied to senators, then AB is the only one getting it right. Instead, AB is in a position of wasting time and money (like when the Liberal gov't ignored the AB senator elections.) AB is the one offside and yet Harper is recognizing the only democratic principles (unenforcable) in play regarding the Senate.
And yet Slava still pisses and moans about Harper's "lack of ethics." What a joke! If Harper held the door open for an old woman, Slava would go on about pandering to the seniors vote.
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