Haiti pushes prorogation off front page (for now)

[HeresyLives]

Monday, January 18, 2010 8:56 AM

Haiti pushes prorogation off front page (for now)
Norman Spector

For the moment, prorogation is no longer on the front pages of newspapers, which suits the Conservatives just fine. And the government will be keeping its focus on Haiti, including by way of an international conference of friends of that country in Montreal next Monday.

How well the government has been doing in changing the channel can be gauged by comparing the French version of Chantal Hébert’s column (filed yesterday) with the English version filed last week and published in today’s Toronto Star. Notably, the English version does not contain the following lead:

“Over the past week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has put his propensity for control to good use in responding to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti. The results are impressive. … Even the opposition parties concede that the initial response was exemplary.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/spector-vision/haiti-pushes-prorogation-off-front-page-for-now/article1434755/

[daleo]

1. They best be careful

Patting themselves on the back over Haiti could be a bad move. It smacks of putting politics above everything else, one of Harper's faults.

[Spazito]

2. I agree, they have to walk a fine line but, given Harper's political...

'tone-deafness', I have every confidence they will cross that line.

[HeresyLives]

3. Yeah, they always go 'over the top',

and end up hurting themselves. I doubt they've gotten clever enough to avoid that in this last week.