Even the National Post Understands Harper Lost Canada's Security Council Bid

Once again Stephen Harper has embarrassed Canada.   Apparently leaving us in the gutter as a global warming pariah wasn't enough for Furious Leader.   Getting the heave-ho from our supposedly secret base in Dubai didn't help but for Canada to lose its bid for a seat on the U.N. Security Council - and to Portugal at that - really burst Harper's bubble.

Naturally the Prime Monster wasn't happy at pulling the plug on the UN bid and, true to form, he wasted no time in trying to pin the blame on anyone and everyone else, starting with Michael Ignatieff.    But even the National Post, Harper's in-house rag, wasn't able to swallow that one.   Columnist Don Martin didn't hesitate to give credit where credit's due - to Stephen Harper himself:

"To give two European countries the temporary seats and deny Canada its rightful claim to one of the two-year chairs is a vote of non-confidence in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s foreign policy.



Candid and plugged-in diplomats will tell you the seat is meaningless unless you’ve got a clear agenda to advocate before the council. Other than Canada’s strong pro-Israel position, it lacks a clear vision about its role in the world beyond the Afghanistan deployment’s termination next summer.

...But to withdraw to Portugal? A bankrupt country of negligible impact on the international security stage? Whose officials thought Canada should win?

The government blame game will shift to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for his trash-talking of Canada’s bid, but that’s bogus finger-pointing.  For a myriad of reasons, each only known to the voting ambassador of the 190 ballot-box countries, the UN General Assembly decided Canada was not worthy of a coveted seat.

...[The]Harper government who thought it had strong foreign affairs credentials —  lost a global vote of confidence in its performance."