L. Ian MacDonald's current gig is editor of Policy Options but, back in the day, he worked for former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. And though relations between the old Mulroney gang and the current Stephen Harper gang can be occasionally bumpy, I think MacDonald is generally cheering for the blue team when push comes to shove.
But in his column in the Sun today, MacDonald says Harper's blue team had, this week, what amounted to its “worst day since his government took office four and a half years ago.” That would be Tuesday, when Canada lost, for the first time ever, a bid for a seat on the UN security council. That's bad enough, MacDonald writes, but then:
“To make a complete botch of the day, the damage control strategy of the Prime Minister’s Office was to blame the failure of the UN bid on Michael Ignatieff’s comments that Canada didn’t deserve a seat on the Security Council. From his dumb to their dumber.
This is the most idiotic communications strategy yet devised by this PMO, and that’s saying something.”
MacDonald has the full scorecard for Harper's dismal scorecard in today's paper.