Harper Conservatives Do About Face In Philosophy

The federal Conservatives couldn’t wait to get rid of Dan Veniez. Literally.

Veniez’s sin is that he and his board did exactly what the then-minister of transport, Lawrence Cannon, asked them to when he gave them the reins of the Crown’s faltering coal terminal. They turned it around. They put the $250-million chronic money-loser on a solid business footing for the first time since it was built in the 1980s.

But they (Transport Minister Rob Merrifield and government House leader Jay Hill) seem determined to give it – or, at least, the use of it – to foreign-owned, profitable companies that never have and don’t want to pay their own freight.  They sing a “public ownership” song that would be more appropriate for NDP MPs than for politicians who, in theory at least, espouse Conservative principles. And now Merrifield is stabbing his own guy in the back.
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Ridley+Terminals+chief+fails+kowtow+fired/1742284/story.html

So I wonder just how the federal Liberals under Michael Ignatief's tutelage will handle this overt about-face of Conservative philosophy?