Stephen Harper, B. Econ, M.Econ, maybe you’re “wrong” too
I’m sorry, I have to get my anger and distaste of Stephen Harper’s “ivory tower” comment off my chest. Doesn’t Harper have two university (“ivory tower”) degrees - a bachelors and a masters - in Economics from the University of Calgary? And according to his Wikipedia entry, he lectures often there to this day. So it angers me when he says this:
“Yes, we believe they’re wrong,” Harper said. “We’re listening to ordinary people, not people who work in ivory towers, but people who actually work on the street and deal with crime on a day-to-day basis.”
This statement means two things. First, either he believes his alma mater is no ivory tower or his education in economics is “wrong”. In my opinion, the University of Calgary is a fine post-secondary education… but based on his comments, should we now assume everything he says about economics is also “wrong”? Secondly, he must believe the 40% of Canadians with post-secondary education are “wrong”… if that’s the case, I’m interested to see what his post-secondary education plan is going to be? Destroy it? I wouldn’t be surprised.
UPDATE: Maybe Stephen Harper is attacking ivory towers because his own alma mater is disagreeing with him
