Imagine. Politicians pandering for votes during an election.
Tuesday’s promise by Stephen Harper “ to reverse plans to scrap tax credits for productions deemed offensive to Canadian viewers” is appreciated by the Canadian film industry, less so by others. 

Prominent evangelical leader Charles McVety, who boasted last winter that his lobbying for “conservative values” had influenced the Harper government’s decision to include the tax provision, suggested Tuesday’s move was little more than a desperate play for votes.

“Unfortunately I think the prime minister is pandering to some vocal people and in turn abandoning his conservative base,” he said.

“Now you have four parties that are all socially left so who do you vote for?”

McVety said Harper has repeatedly forsaken his social conservative values in funding the CBC and reversing his decision to support a controversial private member’s bill that supported unborn victims of crime.

“When you abandon your principles on one issue, people don’t believe you’ll maintain other principles and Stephen Harper fought for these issues over an extended period of time and then the polling numbers go down and he rolls over,” he argued.

Of course if McVety had won this round, Harper and The Conservative Party would be praised as prudent, principled and right.