It's not the insincerity, it's the dishonesty.

Blogging Tory and Jabba-the-Hutt stunt double dr. roy gets all misty and hurt in the pages of the National Post:

I was born in Kerala, India, and I am now a proud Canadian. I was very upset to see people from my part of the world be rude to Stephen Harper in B. C. It was extremely ungracious to attack a guest, especially a guest bringing an apology. The Komagata Maru incident happened many years ago and the present federal government is the first to have apologized for it.

I suspect that our fellow Canadians are dismayed by this show of rudeness. I certainly am.

Here's a hint, Doc ... people get kinda pissed when you lie to them and fuck them over. It's sort of human nature.

CONSPIRACY THEORY MUCH? Indulge me on this one. "Impolitical" ponders:

What is baffling is why the PM would proceed in issuing the apology in the park when the group had clearly expressed opposition to that informality and had suggested it would not go over well.

Perhaps -- just perhaps -- that's exactly the reaction he was after. Think about it. You suggest that you are planning to do X; you get feedback that doing X is virtually guaranteed to piss people off; you go ahead and do X anyway, and people get pissed off. What's to be surprised about?

Is it possible that public anger from the Indo-Canadian community is just what Harper was looking for? Maybe he's just plain tired of giving out all these apologies and, besides, the Conservatives don't much like brown people anyway so, hey, here's a plan -- promise them one thing, then jerk them around and get them hacked off, after which you accuse them of being ungrateful whiners and the rest of the CPoC community picks up that meme and runs with it.

Is it working? You damned betcha it is:

Kelly McParland: Harper isn't sorry enough for Indian leaders

Quite right, Kelly. Fucking ungrateful towelheads. Just make sure you gloss over the glaring misrepresentation of what the Indo-Canadian community had been promised, 'cuz that's kind of an awkward detail and it wouldn't fit nicely into your right-wing spin. Best to just accuse those annoying brown people of being whiners. It makes for a better story, doesn't it?

Conspiracy theory? Hey, I've heard worse.