No Crow for Dinner
Well it looks like I wont be eating crow for dinner after all. Dan Cook went through the numbers for me city by city and three thousand people in Ottawa and Toronto, 300 in Montreal, 250 in Edmonton and 2000 in Vancouver doesn't really amount to much.
It's a numbers game. That's why politicians monitor e-mail, protests and phone calls. And three thousand people in the streets of Toronto just doesn't do the trick. Is it fair? yes as a matter of fact. I covered federalist and separatist rallies and protests for years in Montreal and you knew when people were fighting mad. That's when fifty to a hundred thousand hit the streets. When it was just another "We Hate Ottawa" or "God save Canada" gathering they would muster a few thousand and it didn't mean a thing.
I'm not celebrating this outcome. My record on this PM is long and clear. But my method as a columnist and radio host has always been to try to offer as accurate a pulse on what people are saying and thinking at the moment. It doesn't matter how much I don't like Stephen Harper's pettiness. What matters is whether or not a significant percentage of the population is fed up enough to do something about it.
It's a numbers game. That's why politicians monitor e-mail, protests and phone calls. And three thousand people in the streets of Toronto just doesn't do the trick. Is it fair? yes as a matter of fact. I covered federalist and separatist rallies and protests for years in Montreal and you knew when people were fighting mad. That's when fifty to a hundred thousand hit the streets. When it was just another "We Hate Ottawa" or "God save Canada" gathering they would muster a few thousand and it didn't mean a thing.
I'm not celebrating this outcome. My record on this PM is long and clear. But my method as a columnist and radio host has always been to try to offer as accurate a pulse on what people are saying and thinking at the moment. It doesn't matter how much I don't like Stephen Harper's pettiness. What matters is whether or not a significant percentage of the population is fed up enough to do something about it.
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