Sour Grapes Clark Prefers Martin over Harper

It’s a pity that a former Prime Minister of Canada has been relegated to the far back corner of the House of Commons to sit as a independent while his former party continues to move forward. It is also a pity that the former red Tory cannot seem to understand when to bow out with dignity. His past comments about Harper and the merger and now his statements that he would rather see Martin elected over Harper go a long ways to show his bitterness towards the new party.

Clark slams Harper, urges support for Martin

Former Progressive Conservative leader and onetime Prime Minister Joe Clark says he’d prefer to see Paul Martin, and not current Conservative leader Stephen Harper, win power in the next federal election.

“I have seen nothing in the Stephen Harper-led party that suggests on human-right issues, envrionment issues, bilingualism…anything like the governments that either Mr.Mulroney or I led,” Clark said.

Interestingly enough, in the video of the interview, Clark repeatedly claims that the new party is not the broad progressive party that he and Mulroney lead in the past. Which is fairly humorous seeing that it was under Clark’s watch that the Progressive Party was nearly rejected in a slim and short lived minority government in 1979 and it was Mulroney’s government, and its particular style of governing, that lead to the wholesale rejection of the Progressive Conservative party in almost every region in the country - particularly their strong holds in the West and Quebec.