Shapiro Deep and Delicious

The punditry round-up today was something of a head-scratcher. Conservatives coast to coast are declaring victory, as Shapiro has ‘acquitted’ Harper and Emerson of any wrongdoing. This is a victory, unquestionably… unless you have spent the last two weeks laughing at the utter lack of legitimacy that the inquiry commands.

I need not quote the idiom (about cake and eating it.)

One casts one’s mind back to 1998, when the Pequistes declared the Secession Reference case a success after decrying the process as farcical for months previously.
If Shapiro is a vagrant deserving of no attention (and I suspect he is), then his conclusions are irrelevant.

The argument is not that Stephen Harper is other than innocent. Just that logical consistency is a lost virtue.


Elsewhere...

David McGuinty reaffirms his challenge to the party exec to move us towards a one-member one-vote leadership process. I’ve made my feelings ("why a convention") known before. I can’t think of a stronger way to show the rest of Canada that we truly are repentant sinners. For as long as we maintain this closed system, this plurality of Family Compacts will run our show. As long as that is the case, Canadians can be excused for their skepticism when we assail them with our democratic ideals. Let Convention 2006 be the last.