The Long Wait
Took long enough. Canadians are a tough lot, we don't give up, and we keep hoping. So what did we get for our patient slogging and fairly tolerant anticipations? Well, one dud after another, one disappointment following on another. We had high hopes because we are after all, gullible and naive, traits most humans share to one degree or another.
But look here, in the most improbable of sources we finally appear to have achieved something. By default, to be sure, but it's there anyway: A country's fondest hope realized - a leader. A man of courage, decisiveness, a pragmatic thinker, a moral leader. Oh we've been there before.
We thought we had a leader with all those attributes, and more. History may still champion that man, but at this juncture his good points look dimmer and the thorny issues around his governance still prick us. Yes, it's still early in the governance of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, but the man has grasped so many initiatives, taken charge of so many troubling issues - given us pause to reflect that he may, after all, be the man we Canadians deserve.
Not the kind of "deserve" as when we flagellate ourselves over having voted in yet another dud, and state with group wisdom that a country gets the governance it deserves when it deserves no better than what it inadvertently voted into power. This election was a squeaker, most people had their very lively doubts, and little wonder. We are not a Conservative nation by nature. On the other hand, we may be coming close to discovering that we are this kind of conservative nation.
We're learning to appreciate a leader who acts on the strengths of his convictions. A leader who isn't paralyzed by his personal incapacity to discern solutions to the country's problems, a man who is resolute, intelligent and embraces commitment. Ah, a man of uncommon common sense. Above all, a reasonable man and a man for all seasons.
Yes, he has much to learn, but we too have much to learn, mostly about this man's character and why it is that he is capable of solutions that appear to elude so many other seemingly capable men.
But look here, in the most improbable of sources we finally appear to have achieved something. By default, to be sure, but it's there anyway: A country's fondest hope realized - a leader. A man of courage, decisiveness, a pragmatic thinker, a moral leader. Oh we've been there before.
We thought we had a leader with all those attributes, and more. History may still champion that man, but at this juncture his good points look dimmer and the thorny issues around his governance still prick us. Yes, it's still early in the governance of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, but the man has grasped so many initiatives, taken charge of so many troubling issues - given us pause to reflect that he may, after all, be the man we Canadians deserve.
Not the kind of "deserve" as when we flagellate ourselves over having voted in yet another dud, and state with group wisdom that a country gets the governance it deserves when it deserves no better than what it inadvertently voted into power. This election was a squeaker, most people had their very lively doubts, and little wonder. We are not a Conservative nation by nature. On the other hand, we may be coming close to discovering that we are this kind of conservative nation.
We're learning to appreciate a leader who acts on the strengths of his convictions. A leader who isn't paralyzed by his personal incapacity to discern solutions to the country's problems, a man who is resolute, intelligent and embraces commitment. Ah, a man of uncommon common sense. Above all, a reasonable man and a man for all seasons.
Yes, he has much to learn, but we too have much to learn, mostly about this man's character and why it is that he is capable of solutions that appear to elude so many other seemingly capable men.
posted by Pieface | 6:32 PM
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