I, for one, always thought that smarmy, obnoxious road runner had it coming...
How many classic cartoons were based on the premise of the perennially hapless hunter – Elmer Fudd tracking Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote chasing Road Runner – caught in booby-traps of their own making?
For novice PC Leader Tim Hudak, his party's protest over the Liberal government's proposed harmonized sales tax produced a couple of unforeseen outcomes.
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Hudak said that, irrespective of rules, sometimes "extraordinary measures" are warranted. With that utterance he undercut his own law-and-order positioning and his credibility on long-running issues of civil disobedience.
What Hudak essentially did was give licence to civil disobedience any time anyone feels sufficiently aggrieved to arbitrarily take "extraordinary measures."
How will he stand, for instance, against any future native highway blockades in support of land claims? How can he say his right to extraordinary measures trumps anyone else's?
How can he go to Caledonia, say, and denounce native blockades and occupations there that his own caucus members have long railed against but, in essence, mimicked?
Regarding the "land claims" logic, being used here to widdle down the credibility of the opposition: Doesn't it stand to reason that by the same token, the government's efforts to forcibly remove the caucus "protestors" undermines their credibility in the face of the utter lack of action they've taken with the protestors currently entering their fourth year of occupation on disputed land in Caledonia?
Maybe Hudak and Co. decided to go with a tactic that's proven to work with this government. See? The Indians can still teach us a few things.
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