So much has been made of this speech in the Canadian media you'd think it'd have been a headliner at Davos and that the rest of the world leadership sat up and took notice at Harper telling them how to govern their countries etc......it's sent up as though Harper's new-macho strut personality as majority PM invested him in some kind of moral and p.r. clout in Europe, and that anyone other than the Canadian media and Harper's media team give any more than a flying "f".

But duh, no sign of any coverage of this in European or world media, probably not even in Davos' smalltown paper. Nobody gave half a moose-poop about this outside of Canada; our media and Tory spinsters are touting it as some kind of breakthrough speech, Harper making his mark on the world stage.

Best I could find was a passing mention in the Guardian of Harper's "managerialist" style, nothing in the London Times, IHT, the German papers, nothing on Russia Today. NOTHING. But in the Canadian media this is being given way more mileage than it deserves, including accompanying narrations that suggest that Europe gave a s__t.

Nope. Nada, zilch, zero.

Uh yeah, an autoworker union rep would take that position. I don't think he would even need to think about an answer. PArt of his job description. . Auto assembly jobs are not growing, no one disputes that. The industry is moving to China and I'd bet Government/Union backed GM is the leading North American company moving the fastest to get set up there. Honda is switching production of their well respected Fit from Japan to China. Bad omen if you ask me.