Comparing those who may be two of Canadians’ choices for Leader, in the 2015 Election.
In a (pre-schedduled) CBC interview conducted two hours after the events that prematurely ended the 2013 Boston Marathon, Justin Trudeau was asked how, hypothetically, he would react, as Prime Minister, to ‘The [terror] Events in Boston.’ In part, he advocated for finding out the psychology and the ‘why’ behind the psyche of the perpetrators – so that repeat events could be minimized. We should avoid “marginalizing even further those who feel like they are the enemies of society rather than people who have hope for the future and faith that we can work together to succeed.”
Stephen Harper, who was in England at the time, retorted that a ‘good’ leader would have different priorities; including ensuring the capture and permanent detention of the perpetrators to ensure that never again would they ever again ever threaten society ever at all. “You do not sit around trying to rationalize it, or make excuses for it, or figure out its root causes. [You] deal with [the perpetrators] as harshly as possible.”
Who is more right? Should we seek the grand scale, partial but significant, reduction of such events; or the absolute cessation of all future terror events, by each terrorist [after the fact of each ‘first’ event … for every terrorist]? I suggest a multifaceted approach is probably appropriate; and to propose, as Harper did, his single-pronged approach as the definitive solution, after the Trudeau proposal had been put forward, is in my opinion questionable.
As a comment to Harper, he should be reminded that as a leader of a country such as Canada, he has access to a multitude of resources; and if he were not micro-managing, he might realize that multiple parallel responses are possible, practical, realistic, and even recommended.
As a comment to you, dear reader, it is also pointed out that: Trudeau’s comment were made in a one-on-one interview (with only the hope of favourable post-recording processing by a sympathetic editor); conversely, Harper’s comments were made with timing determined totally under his personal discretion. That is to highlight: Trudeau’s answer was extemporaneous; Harper had time to put considered thought into his comments.
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