According to former CAW chief Buzz Hargrove’s new memoir, our prime minister has a little trouble when it comes to demonstrate his “regular guy” bonafides:
Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers at the time, says in his book Laying it on the Line that he joined union economist Jim Stanford in talking to Harper for about half an hour in November 2007.
“In an effort, I assume, to suggest he was just one of the boys, a guy who could relate to blue-collar workers despite his political record, Harper managed to say `f—’ two or three `times, none of them in what might be called a normal context,” Hargrove writes.
Hargrove, no slouch at swearing during years of contract bargaining with automakers, adds that as he and Stanford left the meeting, they looked at each other and asked: “What the heck was that all about?”
And so for your reading enjoyment, I present a one-act play entitled “Harper Hangs Out With Buzz”…
