Guess who?

Try and guess which political ideology the speaker of the following words belongs to:

It makes no sense to push ahead and spend all of this money on a port that makes the communities adjacent to it little more than doormats on which passing freight wipes its feet and leaves nothing but misery and disruption behind. [When] our concern today is so rightly focused on reducing pollution, alleviating traffic congestion, protecting the environment and other quality-of-life concerns, we shouldn’t be spending money on massive projects that ignore these concerns.

Totally agree with these words. Who said it?

Surprise: Delta-Richmond East Conservative MP John Cummings.

Its too bad that the only Conservative MP’s who are willing to talk common sense are those who are clearly out of favour with Stephen Harper and his political hit men.

The vast majority of Conservative MP’s toe the party line, whether it makes any sense or not. The vast majority of party members seem to believe that is a sensible thing to do. Wrong headed in the extreme. Policy is being driven by a very few in the PMO, not by the membership and certainly not by the average Canadian voter.

Gateway is one idea that makes no sense whatsoever. Gateway, David Emerson’s pet project, only serves to prove that the Conservative party has no intention of actually addressing greenhouse gas emission reduction and climate change.

I’m glad to see Cummings continue to speak out. I won’t always agree with him, but I want to hear what MPs really think, not what they were ordered to think and say by Harper.