My Conservative Cabinet

As PM Harper, and the rest of the country, gets over our collective election hangover, his first act as PM (or one of them, at least) will be the naming of his cabinet. Have you ever noticed the diverse, and somewhat questionable, positions in the Prime Minister's cabinet? Of the 25 positions, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Justice Minister and Finance Minister are the cream of the crop, while other positions like Minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board seem as useless as the Bloc running outside of Quebec. Regardless, this is a great opportunity to meet our new leaders, those all stars of the Tory caucas.

Throughout my time as a politically active student at Carleton, I was fortunate enough to meet and greet many Conservative MP's (at the time Progressive Conservatives), but my 2 most memorable meetings were with 2 veritable policy makers of the Conservative party, then Foreign Affairs critic Stockwell Day, and Jason Kenney, MP from Alberta. These 2 are rumored to have obtained high profile cabinet positions, Day as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Kenney as Health Minister (www.rickmercer.blogspot.com).

While I am excited and encouraged by both potential appointments, I am thoroughly elated that Stockwell Day will now represent Canadian foreign policy to the rest of the world. While most Tory-haters will remind us of Stock's complete failure to lead his party 2 elections ago, he managed to stick around and will reap his proverbial rewards. I am pretty comfortable saying that Day's opinions on Canada's role in the international community, as well as his overall view of Canadian foreign policy does not go over well with most Canadians, but I am one Canadian whose support of day is unwavering. He has proven to be a real friend of the US, of democracy and freedom, and, most importantly, of Israel. Stock as FM will greatly improve Canada's support of the Jewish State, and of our intolerance to terrorism worldwide. As a leading nation, it is our responsibility to ride the moral high ground and stamp out terrorism wherever found.

Stock is the man to lead us. I just hope it's for a substantial period of time.....it took the Liberals over a decade to ruin Canada's relationship to freedom and democracy, I wonder how long it will take the Tories to rebuild it?