Andrew Scheer should have left his job on the night he lost the last election. Instead, he has insisted on hanging around. His long goodbye has been excruciating. Bob Hepburn writes:
Since losing last October’s federal election, Scheer has been at the centre of a series of self-inflicted controversies that shine light on why former prime minister Stephen Harper never considered him for a senior cabinet post.
Scheer’s latest mess surfaced this week when he revealed in a CTV interview that he no longer is seeking to renounce his U.S. citizenship. “Given the fact that I won’t be prime minister, I discontinued the process,” he subsequently told reporters. During the election Scheer ran into a storm of controversy when it was discovered he had dual citizenship, but had not told anyone.
But there have been lots of other gaffes and guffaws:
They include his Trump-like criticism of the World Health Organization’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
His failure to denounce Tory MP Derek Sloan for accusing Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, of being disloyal to Canada and of working for China.
The revelation that even party executives didn’t know he’d arranged a deal for the party to pay for his children to go to a private school.
His unfounded charges that Justin Trudeau is letting “fraudsters” and “criminals” abuse federal aid programs for people out of work because of the pandemic.
In short, Scheer gives the impression that his opposition to Trudeau is deeply personal -- period. And the longer Scheer hangs around, the more Trudeau and the Liberals will benefit.
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10 comments:
He's a bedsore on the ass of the Conservative Party. Long may he reign!!
He is the leader they so richly deserve, Mound.
And those waiting back stage don't offer any chance of improving the ReformaCons' prospects either, Owen. It looks like St. Stephen's fingerprints are all over this (again).
Until Harper decides to leave the building, Lulymay, the party will lie in ruins.
Scheer is there because Harper wants him there, launching personal attacks on Trudeau. It was Harper operatives who leaked the private school funding issue that caused Sheer to resign. If Harper had wanted to keep him on, it would have been a simple matter to handle internally. Harper is still the puppet master and he's got Scheer on a kamikaze mission to keep the base happy until he can install O'Toole as his new puppet.
Cap
It's beginning to look like O'Toole is the anointed one, Cap. But being anointed by Harper surely is no sign of competence.
"Scheer's Long Goodbye"
Reminds me of that awful movie Lord of the Rings.
The farewell took up a third of the movie.
TB
Money, that is why he is still there. If he is not leader of the opposition his salary is reduced/ He doesn't get to live in that house in Ottawa with its staff, no limo, etc. Scheer has never had it so good as leader of the opposition. he isn't going to give that up until he has to and at the rate that is going it could be awhile.
As long as he is there he will continue to grind the conservative party into the ground which may be the intent, if they think Peter MacKay might win the leadership race.
Some people have a desperate need to be in the spotlight, TB.
Chances are that Scheer will never make that kind of money -- or have the perks that come with the office -- again, e.a.f.
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