Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks a lot about creating jobs, but he doesn't do anything about it — living proof that he's a Republican at heart.
Example: In Washington, as "The Daily Show" has so brilliantly observed, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives excoriates President Obama's alleged failures on the economy. But instead of taking action themselves, they spend time on goofy bills — like the one declaring "In God We Trust" our national motto. (Meanwhile, their colleagues in the Senate block another part of the Obama jobs bill.) In short, the GOP's money is not where its mouth is.
And Harper? He's been greeted at the G20 summit with some bad news from the home front: a Statistics Canada report that Canadian unemployment jumped to 7.3 percent in October, wiping out all job gains made in the previous month.
Harper says he is "disappointed." But is he going to leap into action, perhaps send some new stimulus legislation to Parliament? Gosh, no.
Well, at least they're not wasting time on Canada's motto. Are they?
*"From sea to sea"
(PHOTO: Reuters)
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