Just sent a letter to the Winnipeg Free Press in response to this column. Don't think it will get printed, so to get it off my chest I will post it here:
Dear Sir/Madam:
Surprise, surprise, Frances Russell has spewed out yet another hysterical and bizarre column aimed at smearing Prime Minister Stephen Harper. (Harper undoing Canada, April 4, 2012)
What is this, the 1000th such column this month?
News flash Ms. Russell: Other stuff is happening in the world.
Anyway, typically I ignore her simple-minded left wing fantasy rants, but this time she wrote something so ridiculous it had to be challenged.
I am referring to her statement in today’s column that Harper “abhors the 1982 Canadian Constitution and its Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”
Really?
Perhaps Russell is ignorant of the fact that during his time at the National Citizens Coalition, Harper used the Charter on more than one occasion to challenge bad laws.
Yes, that’s right. He turned to the court system and to the Charter in his battle to protect individual freedoms.
As Harper himself once put it, “Solutions can only be found in the classical theory of liberal democracy -- checks and balances of institutional power under limited government”.
Hardly sounds like the actions of a man who “abhors” the Charter, does it?
Mind you, I don’t expect Russell cares much for actual facts or research.
After all, it’s so much easier just to churn out mindless garbage.
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