Mike Sporer was an exception: he was a decent person who treated people with respect and was willing to engage with his opponents politically. He also had a sense of humour, a rarity in that crowd.

Falcon is a brittle ideologue who will do whatever is necessary to gain power. He loves Thatcher because that’s his kind of politics – breaking unions isn’t just “principled”, it’s *fun*. Victory is good; completely destroying your opponent is better.

I don’t buy that he’s “softened”. I think he’s become a more adept politician. Campbell wants him to take public health care to pieces or die trying. For Campbell, it’s a win-win situation.

Oh, just to bring the level of conversation to the basement – when he ran for council he hand-designed ‘Falcon’ logos, with his name in the middle and stylized lines out of the sides representing wings.

Meanwhile, do not get me started about Christy Clark.

Falcon is only 46, and what did someone expect for the first 20 or 30 years?

I’m not surprised that he brings out the venom in people, but where is he in caucus or cabinet daily sitting next to Gordon, that he reflects Gordon’s views on a daily basis? How is this possible?
Do party and “private” donations come in because of Falcon’s pleadings?
And my ultimate question: Writing for that proto-fascist Peter Legge’s magazine!!? I know that there are not a lot of markets around, but really, who would support that office coffee- table staple from Canada-Wide publications?

Hmmm – about a man who admires Thatcher and Regan? I’m not sure that ‘high-level’ has any part in Mr. Falcon’s being who he is, what he aspires to be, or in any part of his interactions with people. I have heard from people who have ‘negotiated’ with him on a variety of issues, that the word ‘discussion’ is a one-way street.

Perhaps I read people like you to help us find the ‘higer-level’ thinking that might be occurring somewhere in Mr. Falcon’s mind, because its not obvious to me.

I am happy you linked to the story as I might have otherwise missed it. I think that you were being just a touch naive though in even hoping for a high level discussion on this subject.

Anyways let me put on my flame suit and state that I feel Mr. Falcon did a good job as transportation minister and got a lot of things done. He appears to be made of teflon and that will bode well for him if he remains in his current line of work.

Falcon is like the Campbell brothers. They grew up as spectators to wealth and now worship money beyond all else. Odd, the people he regards as worthy of his admiration. Murray Pezim, Bennett, Thatcher, Reagan? Which of those people would have spent time in jail if laws of common people applied to them?

If you worship money and operate without ethics and morality, I suppose you are bound to have a different set of heroes that most of us. Trouble is that Campbell and Falcon, in their naive lust, are giving away public assets, not their own. They are so in thrall to the rich and powerful, that they are pushovers every time they are instructed to assume the position, again.

Nothing like a question in the head. I speak from personal experience.