Stephen Harper has finally found a deferential political kindred spirit in Tony Abbott, Australia’s Prime Minister.
Mister Abbott told Canadian business leaders that his new government, much like Stephen Harper’s, is committed to reducing the regulatory burdens and lowering the environmental hurdles for business.
You may be wondering if Canada’s number one conservative sorcerer revealed all his Machiavellian secrets to his impressionable Australian apprentice. Time will tell. Watch to see if Tony Abbott’s government divides rather than unites Australians; if support for environmental research and public broadcasting is curtailed; if access to government information is limited, if military veterans are praised while the injured are ignored; if promises of openness and accountability disappear behind a wall of partisan bafflegab; if democratic institutions are denigrated and disregarded; if negotiation and cooperation are replaced with confrontation and obstruction; if international corporations are rebranded as ‘The Economy’ and given preferential access to the politically powerful.
Lloyd Atkins
