 Would you sleep with this man? |
The federal Conservative party’s “family values” guy, Vic Toews, who currently serves in Stephen Harper’s cabinet as President of the Treasury Board, and was a former Minister of Justice in Progressive Conservative Premier Gary Filmon’s government in the 1990s — as well as, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, in the early part of Harper’s lingering, undeserved mandate — seems to be in a spot of personal trouble.
Now, Mr. Harper and Mr. Toews (the latter, a socially conservative right-winger, and even prior to the emergence of the current scandal was something of an embarrassment to the Prime Minister) up until a month, or so, ago was slated for a federal appointment to Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench. Hey, it all could have worked out so well. Harper gets rid of an old fogey (he’s 55, but he looks much older, don’tcha think?), putting him out to pasture in the sinecure of the Courts, and Toews gets to make blue collar criminals miserable while offering white collars thieves an opportunity to carry on with their dirty deeds.
But no, it is not to be. No Court appointment for Mr. Toews will be in the offing, it would seem. And why not offer the old fascist homophobe a cushy retirement within the luxuriant confines of the august Manitoba Court system? Yes, folks, there is a story to be told, a juicy scandale du jour.
Mr. Toews is “embroiled in a messy divorce” after fathering a child last fall with a much younger woman. So, it’ll be no $232,000 a year job for the federal MP often dubbed the “minister of family values”. In Mr. Toews’ crowd you just don’t go around knocking up a much younger woman who is not your wife. Particularly when you’ve fashioned yourself as an ethically pure saint, a man who knows the “true” way, a family man with family values.
Tch, tch, Mr. Toews. But it could be worse. Just ask poor ol’ Larry Craig.
