As another wave of bitterly cold weather rolls across the East, across Ontario to the Maritimes.
And Stephen Harper continues his Great Comeback Tour 2014, in balmy British Columbia.
One question still haunts me: Why did he turn his back on a million Eastern Canadians left freezing in the dark during the big ice storm?
Was it mental exhaustion? Was it indifference. Did he think it wasn't a real emergency? Or was it just because it didn't happen in Calgary?
So I was glad to see the Globe and Mail try to answer that chilling question.
The other day I wrote about how Stephen Harper had betrayed the people of Central and Eastern Canada.
By shrugging off the suffering of an estimated one MILLION Canadians who lost power during that massive ice storm, and were left freezing in the dark for DAYS.
Treating it like it was nothing, just like his Con buddy Rob Ford who refused to declare a state of emergency because it would have caused him to lose even more power.
Now I see that Emma Teitel has taken a look at the debate over whether a state of emergency should have been declared, and concludes that it should have been.
This is what Toronto looked like this evening from the Island ferry. The sky clearing, the ice breaking up in the bay. Glowing in the setting sun like a city whose nightmare is over.
Except for the huge chunks of ice threatening to slide off buildings and smash into the streets below, and for all the people still without power from Ontario to New Brunswick.
But even though it's been EIGHT days since the massive ice storm hit, and about a MILLION people in THREE provinces were left in the cold and the darkness, at the height of the holiday period.
All Stephen Harper has had to say about this disaster is still these TWO miserable tweets...
It's almost unbelievable that a Canadian Prime Minister could ignore the suffering of so many.
But six days after a massive ice storm struck, and although tens of thousands of people are still without power from Ontario to New Brunswick.
This is all Stephen Harper has had to say...or TWEET...since the crisis began.
As Toronto woke up to a scene of devastation with more than a quarter of a million people without power, one man was missing in action.
And you can guess who that was eh?
The Mayor in Name Only.
As city officials, staff and cleanup crews worked to repair the havoc caused by an icy storm, Mayor Rob Ford was unreachable, according to a source.
The mayor could not be found all Sunday morning by city staff working to organize warming centres and other emergency preparations, the source said.
When I heard the freezing rain tap tapping against my bedroom window the other night I feared the worst.
It brought back memories of The Great Ice Storm of 1998, and I wouldn't want to live through something like that again.
But when morning came I saw I was lucky. The storm had only sideswiped the waterfront. The trees in the neighbourhood were shining with ice, but still standing. And we still had power.
Unlike so many other Canadians.
