Thin Front Bench

I’m sorry for taking so long to update my blog. I’ve been a bit sick for the past few days and I just lost track of time.

There’s been no shortage of news this week with what they are now calling the Bernier-Couillard affair. The latest bite is about whether or not Couillard was awarded a diplomatic passport: if she was, why wasn’t she screened? Or if she wasn’t, why did she get the right to jet around the world with Maxime Bernier? There are many questions and there will continue to be until Harper manages to find some serious “distracting news” such as a Cabinet shuffle.

But this whole big scandal is really nothing more than a symptom of the incompetence of Harper’s front bench. Apart from him, there’s simply no one who can be trusted to handle a serious portfolio. In finance, we have Jim Flaherty who handled Ontario Finances under Harris; in Defense we have Peter MacKay who's a lawyer and career politician; in health, Tony Clement who handled the SARS outbreak in Toronto; and in Foreign affairs, well... it was Bernier.

I’d therefore like to finish this post by asking you all to read Rex Murphy’s Globe and Mail article. I don’t usually like his writing, but here, he’s really got a point.