That there is little integrity or loyalty in too many of our politicians.
For those abroad – Ms. MacLeod is a member of our Provincial Legislature for Ontario. Until late this week, she was a contender for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party but has now decided to withdraw from the contest.
And why?
Because the Federal Member for her riding – former Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird - earlier in the week announced his retirement from politics thereby opening up his Ottawa riding for another.
Lisa MacLeod anyone?
Yes, the dear lady is looking at it and why not – it would cut down on her commuting to Toronto each week and put her in a position where she could almost walk to work on Parliament Hill.
In saying she was in fact actively considering running for Baird’s riding she mentioned that there are important things for her to do here in Ottawa such as ‘being part of 2017 - 150th anniversary of the founding of Canada’.
It doesn’t get much bigger than that for a politician. Why they’d get weak in the knees just thinking about all the photo ops such an opportunity would provide.
And of course at her press conference she said that everybody is urging her to take the jump from Provincial to Federal Politics.
Pretty hard for the dear lady to resist.
But hold on. Today’s papers report that neither John Baird nor her neighbouring Tory MP the Honourable Pierre Poilievre appear to be on her fan bandwagon. These two are the most important personages that a prospective candidate for the vacant riding would want to have on board.
It does make one wonder how strong her groundswell of support really is?
But what really irritates me in all of this is the fact that over the course of the Liberal Party Rule in Ontario – over the course of the last 10 years, dear Lisa has been in her Queen’s Park seat and has experienced personally and up close how disastrous that Liberal Government has been.
Why she even ran for the Tory leadership since she felt that she had the necessary credentials to finally wrest control power from the Grits and restore Ontario to its rightful place as the engine of our Great Nation.
But she was prepared to jettison all that for a shorter commute and of course for all those Sesquicentennial Photo Ops.
The beleaguered citizens of Ontario be damned.
As I see it …
‘K.D. Galagher’
