Arrogance of frightening proportions - all the reason needed to throw the Alliance out

The Prime Minister's supreme arrogance and disdain for matters of concern to large numbers of Canadians was perfectly encapsulated Saturday night when he ignored the Earth Hour and had rooms at 22 Sussex Place blazing with lights, as was the Prime Minister's office on Parliament Hill - on a Saturday night, no less.

From accounts across the country, he seems one of the few political leaders who did not enter completely into the spirit of Earth Hour. In fact, so far he's the only one - and why is no one surprised.

Stornaway House, Stephane Dion's abode as Leader of the Opposition was pitch black. Olivia Chow and Jack Layton are so politically correct they probably didn't even use candles, and Elizabeth May certainly entered into the full spirit of the hour. But not the corpulent, wheezing, arrogant bone head who is Canada's prime minister. No, Prime Minister Puffy makes Marie Antoinette's "let them eat cake" seem a model of humility. While most of Canada entered into the spirit of Earth Hour, Puffy went his own merry way and to hell with the planet, to hell with concern about climate change and to hell with Canadian concerns and desires to try to make a difference for the environment, even if only for one short hour.

It is becoming clearer with every passing day of the need to throw The Alliance out of office. Just in the last three weeks, Puffy has launched a suit against the Liberals (unprecedented in its heavy handed attempts to stop all criticism of His Puffiness), has tacitly supported Federal Finance Fool Jim Flawerty who is advising the world not to invest in Ontario and, as a Post Script just in passing, has completely dismissed Earth Hour as irrelevant to himself. It begs the question on every Canadian lip - if he behaves like this when we can see him, what does he do behind closed doors?

Canadians want smart leaders, compassionate leaders, empathetic leaders and leaders who have at least some modicum of the common touch. That's strike one, two, three and four. The mangling of the economy and the doing away with the economic health put in place by the Liberals is reason enough to defeat this bunch. They are tax cutting our way into further tragedy just as they did in Ontario. Instead of infrastructure renewal and judicious spending on health and education, Flawerty is following the same policies that killed seven people in Walkerton, piled up a $6.5 billion deficit in Ontario when times were really good, decimated the public school system and left health care in total disarray.

Puffy refused to turn out the lights and turn off the hockey game for an hour. It will be poetic justice when Canadians turn the lights out on him in the next election.