It’s time for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Tories to “prorouge” their holidays and get back to work.
Members of the Conservative government can say they are still working, that they are just doing it in their own constituencies, but that just doesn’t cut it with the average Canadian who gets only two — three in some provinces — weeks of holidays each year.
What if all businesses shut down from the beginning of the year until March so their employees could savour the Olympic Games? And with pay no less. The recession would be considered a picnic.
That’s not how the real world works. And reality is in most of our faces every single day when bills arrive in the mail.
Shareholders would fire and replace company CEOs and employees — and rightfully so.
When it comes to the federal government, we are the shareholders and Harper the CEO. Yet Harper seems to think his is the only opinion that matters. He doesn’t have to answer to the “shareholders” who put him there.
And, sadly, he is probably right. It doesn’t seem to matter how much he abuses his position as prime minister, he will still get the support he needs in the polls.
Part of the reason he can get away with whatever he wants is because so many electors are apathetic when it comes to politics. They don’t know and don’t care what’s going on.
But history is generally not kind to those who serve only themselves.
