Let’s get’er done

“I have aspirations.”

Not quite the same ring to it as “I have a dream.”

Perhaps it isn’t fair to compare Stephen Harper to Martin Luther King, Jr.

But is this really the best he can do?

Harper just got back from Australia where he was meeting with the other 20 leaders of APEC or Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation.

Their biggest accomplishment was the Sydney Declaration on Climate Change. The leaders of 21 countries representing 60 per cent of the world’s economy and the best they can come up with for tackling this global problem is “aspirations.”

“Aspirations” sounds an awful lot like “yawn.”

The World doesn’t need any help yawning about this problem. Half the people don’t understand it, half don’t care and the other half figure someone else will take care of it.

Don’t expect that someone else to be Stephen Harper. Instead of concrete steps or a plan of action, he has hit the snooze button.

“Climate change? Don’t worry about it. Go back to sleep.

“I’m just going to finish yawning here, and maybe stretch a bit and look out the window for a while, and see which way the wind is blowing, and we’ll think about really doing something later.”

Now that’s the way to get things done.