This man is probably the most despicable, unprincipled, male chauvanist, treacherous, opportunistic person in Canadian politics today. The fact that he was gushing with "admiration" for Condoleeza Rice when he first met her is very telling.
From his underhanded dismantling of the Progressive Conservatives and the lies he told about it, to his shameless and hypocritical milking of his relationship with Belinda Stronach, to his ignorant, wannabe-imperialist policies towards the Middle East and the Muslim world, he has left a trail of disasters for Canadian politics and Canadian policy through his career.
I suppose it's good that he is no longer in charge of Foreign affairs.
In the government of Emperor Harper, however, who models his administration so closely, in tactics (a controlling, secretive PMO), rhetoric (if you don't support the war, you don't support the troops), and policies (take your pick) after the Republican one to south, it doesn't look like this will make much of a difference. As with the Bush administration's sales pitch over the "War on Terror," Harper won't change his policies - he will just change the way they are sold.
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