Elites?

According to a Toronto Sun editorial (not exactly a bastion of intellectual rigor, but you take what you can get) its crosstown competitor, The Globe & Mail has "seen the light" on Harper. The Sun goes on to praise John Ibbitson's column (behind a firewall) claiming that it is Eastern Canadian elites that see Harper as

"a wrecker: a cold-blooded leader of a band of vulgar ideologues that, with every action, destabilizes the liberal consensus that has dominated our federal government for generations."

Really? Am I an elite now too? I'm waiting for a nice limo, because, if you read my prior posts, I'm fairly sure that I've described at least a few members of Harper's cabinet that fit that bill. And then there's the sneering , err... cheering section led by Ezra Levant - he's just like a yappy dog... but dumber. Anyway, Levant is certainly nothing if not a vulgar ideologue.

Lastly we are told that these Eastern elites (again, it's only elites that are supposed to feel this way) better suck it up, because the oil boom is going to make the West in charge of everything. Last I recall, it was still one person, one vote. Oh sure a few of us Easterners might move there, but who's to say that we won't take our "elitism" with us to your mecca. The funny thing with booms is that they often bust. Ontario is still a hell of a lot bigger, so is Quebec, you may have the money, Calgary, but we have the votes.
Tags: Canadian politics, Elitism, Toronto Sun.