LITTLE HARBOUR, N.S., and FREDERICTON — There are certain situations where it’s impossible to be cynical about politics, where it’s possible to imagine everyone is in it for the right reasons and differences can be resolved for the greater good without anyone getting stabbed in the back. Music helps, in my experience. During the 2011 campaign I tagged along with Elizabeth May on a whistle-stop train tour.
As we entered, young fiddler Katie Aucoin and her brother pianist Pierre were bringing the house down. In lieu of Scheer’s unbearable power-rock campaign song, he was led to the stage by a bagpiper. It was friendly, upbeat, folksy as all get out. Talking to reporters later, MacKay was happy to describe Fraser, another local boy who came home to serve his community, as “a great guy.” I’ll remember it as a high point in what has been a woefully dreary campaign.
It certainly seems to have survived Maxime Bernier’s apostasy: His People’s Party is polling perilously near zero per cent, and the Scheer campaign rubbed it in Friday afternoon with a raucous rally in Saint-Georges. Still, lasting unity would be a neat trick. Take Quebec, for example.
Conservatives believe in decentralization for all provinces, Scheer hastened to add — but let’s get real. Blaine Higgs, the Tory Premier of New Brunswick, was on hand to call a spade a spade. “I spend a lot of time … meeting with colleagues out in the West, because I feel there’s a national interest there,” Higgs told reporters. “I don’t see the same national interest in Quebec, and that’s the sad part. They need to be part of it, because they benefit too from being part of the country.
The young lady was a fabulous musician. Perhaps we all can learn from rural Canada when it comes to community.
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