Dear Editor:
The National Federation of Village Idiots went back to Parliament Hill last weekend for what was billed as the Conclave of the Confused, Part Duh!
It was an opportunity to once again show enthusiastic support for that zany bunch of conspiracy crackpots who terrorized the citizens of Ottawa this past winter. They’re obviously your kinda people, Candice Bergen!
What was it you said to the truckers? Oh yeah, “Keep it up; it makes Trudeau look bad.”
Anyway, the deep thinkers behind Part Duh apparently wanted to shake things up and give their second instalment of public disorder and mayhem a totally different look. Instead of rolling into Bytown on 18 or 28 wheels, they cruised in on two.
Well, Ms Bergen, these guys you’re aligning yourself with are clearly the sort of strategic geniuses the modern Conservative Party wants — heck, needs — to identify with.
As for those of us old and stuffy enough to remember with fondness the days of Pat Carney and Chuck Strahl, or even earlier, Joe Clark, Flora MacDonald and (sigh) Bob Stanfield — well, don’t give us a second thought.
We left the Conservative tent long ago, right about the time you dropped the word Progressive from your name.
Bob Cooper,
Elora