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A couple of days’ worth of headlines…
Tories ‘prepared to defend’ polygamy ban
Toews supports new crime rate measure
Tories want to kill ‘two-for-one’ prison-time credit
Spike in refugee claims shows ‘abuse’ of system, Kenney says
There you go, Tory base. We may be spending at all-time record levels. We may be running $40-billion deficits, and bailing out auto companies, and ditching across-the-board tax cuts in favour of dozens of little social-engineering tax credits. We may have abandoned everything we ever stood for on Afghanistan, on Quebec, on corporate welfare, on foreign investment. We may have set up a regional development agency for southern Ontario.
But we’ll still protect you from a lot of imaginary threats like polygamy. We’ll still beat up on refugees, and prisoners. We’ll still whip up hysteria over crime. Because sometimes you just have to do the unassailably popular thing, when it’s the unassailably popular thing to do.