Stephen Harper's sorry priorities

Speaking at the United Nations' World Urban Forum in Vancouver, Prime Minister Stephen Harper used the occasion to do a George W. Bush bit about terrorism being the most serious challenge facing policy-makers today. More important than dealing with climate change? More important than fighting disease and poverty in Africa? More important than providing the world's one billion slum dwellers with clean water and sewage disposal?

Delegates from Third World cities must have thought they'd stumbled into the wrong conference. Or maybe PM Harper stumbled into the wrong conference.