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– actually, the only good thing — is that they have brought intellectuals such as Margaret Atwood into the public arena.
True, she jumps the shark in today's Globe and Mail piece by suggesting that Mr. Harper's government is a “budding dictatorship.” Still, it's far better that Ms. Atwood and others in the creative community focus on Canadian rather than American politics, and that they write about current events rather than science fiction.
The real threat to our free and democratic society is not a few million dollars in cuts, but the one-party state we were turning into under Jean Chrétien. And an intellectual class that was so attached to the public teat that it did not say boo when Paul Martin's government committed our troops to Kandahar.
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