Harper's Honeymoon is H'over

Alright, my tentative support of giving Stephen Harper a try as PM is already being severely tested, in way that I guess we all could have predicted (and I should have been more wary of). In a speech to police chiefs (who of course have plenty of vested interests in keeping lots of things illegal, therefore giving them something to do and a justification for their budgets), Harper said that the government will not re-introduce to Parliament the marijuana de-criminalization bill conceived by the Liberals. This proposed change in policywas a sensible compromise, although it didn’t go far enough to really start changing the perverse incentives and negative consequences of the war of drugs. I do somewhat like Harper’s “tough on crime” stance from the same speech (at least when it comes to violent crime), but I’d really like it if he stuck to things that were really crimes. This is it, Steve-o: pull a stunt like this on abortion or gay marriage and I've had it.