I'm not saying that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's announcements that the retirement age and how the government selects immigrants is about to change were sneaky and cowardly, but considering he made the changes without consulting the Canadian public, it wasn't his bravest moment. Heck, even Dick Cheney climbed out of his cave to admit he lost respect for Harper's testicular fortitude.
I'm not saying that if Toronto City Council votes to abandon Rob Ford's plan of building underground subways and re-adopts David Miller's Transit City plan it would mean the death of the mayor's re-election bid, but it would mean that almost everything Ford promised to do in his election campaign would have failed to come to pass. I hear he has a minister and undertaker on speed dial.
I'm not saying it's completely and unequivocally wrong for the federal government to use intelligence gained through torture to protect the lives of Canadians, but that information is incredibly tainted and how can we trust it to be in any way true and accurate? People can be made to say anything to make the pain stop. That is doing something unspeakably terrible to achieve a questionable result like killing an entire family of people because you want their house and car. Amnesty International Canada has already condemned this attitude.
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