"Old Style Politics"

The only positive in having Harper actually govern, is in watching the old right talking points evaporate. Remember all the angry directed towards the Liberals, the "Liberals of Montreal", a party who's version of federalism played favorites, pandered, gave disproportionate attention. Must be a painful pill to swallow for the faithful, watching these new crusaders behave like, well, Liberals:

The Harper government has been channelling a disproportionate amount of economic development money in Quebec into Conservative-held ridings...

the Conservatives held 10 of the 75 federal seats in Quebec, giving them a 13.3 per cent share. However, projects in Conservative ridings received 22 per cent of the agency's funding...

Ridings held by the Bloc Quebecois received funding roughly in line with the party's share of seats in the province. The Bloc held 51, or 68 per cent, of the seats in Quebec over most of the period studied, and Bloc ridings received 69 per cent of the agency's funding. By contrast, Liberal MPs occupied 13 seats, or 17.3 per cent of the total, but their ridings only received 8.5 per cent of Canada Economic Development's funding.

On average, each Conservative seat received $10.8 million in economic development money. That is more than one and a half times the average of $6.6 million that Bloc Quebecois ridings have received, and more than three times the $3.2-million average for Liberal ridings.

"There are two stories here. One is the partisan favouritism and the corollary to that is that (the results) suggest this is a pork barrel," said Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto.

I guess we can check cronyism, patronage and an end to "old style politics" off the sanctimonious list of the believers. Same old, same old, probably worse given the self-annointed moral supremacy.