Editor:
Someone should tell our MP John Weston that it is not enough to talk the talk; you have to walk the walk, and to date, Stephen Harper is only able to blow smoke.
Never mind the Senate scandal and Harper's personally appointed choices of Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin, rewarded for their strident campaigning on behalf of the Conservative party with places at the public trough. It is simply not believable that the most controlling Prime Minister in the history of Canada did not know about Nigel Wright's cheque to pay off Mike Duffy. But never mind that.
The real problem is that Harper is an incompetent leader. Convincing proof of his incompetence is languishing in a Panama prison in the person of Arthur Porter, the man Harper hired to chair CSIS, our spy agency.
Porter, it turns out, is a fraud and a crook. Harper didn't bother to check his background, didn't read the CV. Maybe he just went with his gut feeling about Porter, the oily con man. This serious error demonstrates a lack of judgment on the part of our current Prime Minister.
I ask you: would you want him hiring personnel for your business? Come to think of it, would you put Peter MacKay in charge of purchasing? Would you want Bev Oda running your accounting department? These jokers would be funny if it weren't our country they are trying to fool.
Mary Beth Knechtel, Halfmoon Bay
