How comforting that we all were wrong but Connie has set the record straight:
The controversy surrounding Bruce Carson — a former advisor to Stephen Harper — is a shabby and worrisome exercise in priggish hypocrisy and cowardice that reflects no credit on anyone except Carson’s fiancée, Michele McPherson, and possibly Carson himself... If we do not salute and take comfort from reformed personalities and successfully relaunched careers, we are, as a society, complicit in an odious and primitive coarsening of life.
Credit? Crossing the river of forgetfulness more like it. To be honest, I have found Black less irritating incarcerated than on trial or when setting up his wrongdoing but this column's just a bit weird. Anti-lobbying provisions are important. Questioning why an recently teen-aged call girl should be leading a firm selling necessities under publicly funded government contracts is extremely reasonable. Adding up a life's work and habits to find someone creepy is normal. There are two sides to every ledger.
Comments
Ben (The Tiger) - April 10, 2011 3:55 PM
Lord Black's gone soft on crime, that's all.
Alan - April 10, 2011 7:34 PM
Isn't
"...if we do not salute and take comfort from reformed personalities and successfully relaunched careers..."
a wee bit more than soft on crime? I mean that's what a Tory calls a Grit.
David Janes - April 10, 2011 8:34 PM
A conservative is a liberal that's been mugged. And now a liberal is a conversative that's gone to jail!
Pok - April 10, 2011 9:35 PM
Why is it that the nuttier celebrities get the more we pay attention to them?
Ben (The Tiger) - April 10, 2011 9:46 PM
Mushy on crime? Marshmallowish on crime?
Alan - April 10, 2011 10:51 PM
Sweet on criminals.
Ben (The Tiger) - April 10, 2011 11:33 PM
Hug-a-thug.
Well, more hug-a-white-collar-thief...
Jay Currie - April 11, 2011 6:08 PM
Well, Carson seems to have discovered that if you marry or promise to marry a hooker....
A good rule for ex-PMO types might be a cooling off period in, say, Flin Flon with calls and email monitored for, say a year. At that point they would be rendered non-toxic and allowed to rejoin the ranks of the lobbyists.
Alan - April 12, 2011 7:45 AM
Yes, it's funny to have a law and then when its broken say what a silly law. Especially when its broken by a schemer who enlists his "girlfriend" as a front for selling water systems to reserves and make healthy profits from public funds. Great moments in ethical review.