Oh, for heaven's sake

Today's Globe reports that Stephen Harper entered the House of Commons on Thursday flanked by six relatives of victims of the Air India disaster. Is it just me, or is it a bad idea to use long-suffering relatives as props in a partisan political battle? Why shouldn't he go all out and dress them up in Getting Things Done For All of Us T-shirts?


A recent Globe article on the CN strike pointed out that CN CEO Hunter Harrison took home $56 million in pay in 2005 while pushing his company to constantly become more efficient and competitive. I'm beginning to think of this as the beehive theory of capitalism: the worker bees all slave away, producing royal jelly, which they feed to the queen bee, who becomes ever more fat and bloated. I'm reasonably certain that this isn't the best way for the economy to work.