It has been a terrible month for the conservative name with the senate scandal coming out of Ottawa and the Ford brothers circus coming out of Toronto. The allegation of drugs, unethical spending and the questionable $90 000 that seems to in someway have been given to stop an audit have created a war ravaged conservative brand with the Ford family and Duffy throwing insults as a last ditch attempt to cover their tracks and Stephen Harper firing chiefs of staff and trying to smooth talk the scandal away.
It seems things are only going to get worse as it seems that Rob Ford and Stephen Harper were political allies and friends going on fishing trips and bolstering each others campaigns. However foolish this seems now at the time it made perfect sense to try and gain the largest city in Canada and one of the largest voting areas for the Conservatives. Politics becomes easier if everyone is working from the same outlook.
The words from the infamous "hat trick" video (seen to the right) have come back to haunt Harper as he praises Rob Ford for "cleaning up the NDP mess here in Toronto" while stating that his government was cleaning up "the left wing mess federally". As everyone now knows he and his government along with Rob Ford and his family (whether or not they have solved the mess the left wing left) have created there own list of issues and scandals.
With the scandals piling up against the Conservative Party and distrust against Stephen Harper building the left has to merely stand back and watch as the current government attempts to salvage the pristine image it once held among the majority of Canadians. Even the attack ads that helped bring the Conservatives to power are now even making people within their own ranks grumble with displeasure it seems the best opposition to the Conservative Party is themselves.
Was this blog exclusively for writer's craft or were you also using it for another class like challenge and change?
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This is another concise but poignant post.