If the results don t go Clark s way, and so far very little has gone his way, there s bound to be fireworks. Of course, the media won t get the same old thrill sticking it to Glen Clark. But practicing on a corpse is better than nothing at all. That is the question being asked almost daily in Canada s media. Given Day s remarks on a number of issues including justice, human rights and abortion, he deserves to be scrutinzed not only by the media, but also by every Canadian who believes in separation of church and state.
Day is a relatively unknown quantity.
From now until the next federal election, possibly as early as this fall, Day will be grilled under a national magnifying glass, while Jean Chretien continues in the backrooms doing what he does best - raping the country and turning the spoils over to friends and insiders. The media attention may work to Day s advantage. Worse than a fundamentalist, populist profile is no profile, a la NDP leader Alexa McDonough. In McDonough s desperate quest for publicity, she s even made overtures to Canada s business community, the traditional adversary of her union-backed party. Of course, she was laughed off, but it revealed the lengths to which a national politician will go for recognition.