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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Four failed PMs on climate change
Canada has six living Prime Ministers (if you don’t include John Thompson whom I’m convinced is alive and well in Switzerland). Four of these former PMs have something in common; well actually now they have two things in common.
The first thing they have in common is that they are all losers. Joe Clark, John Turner, Kim Campbell, and Paul Martin are all losers. I don’t mean that to say they never amounted to anything (after all they were PMs and what have you done with your life?). I simply mean to state that they all have lost elections.
No scratch that, they have all been humiliated at the polls. Joe Clark got kicked out in only nine months. John Turner let Mulroney win the largest caucus in Canadian history. Kim Campbell…well let’s just say John Tory ran her campaign. Paul Martin wasn’t humiliated exactly, but when you consider the heights he fell from, he would at least be very disappointed in himself.
With that in mind, consider the second thing these four have
in common. They have all put their name to
a document called, Time To Get Serious on Climate Change (because we were all giggling about it before).
None of these people are experts on the topic,
so I assume their names were added to give it political weight, or at least to get
media attention. The problem is that these
four won’t make anyone take this paper more seriously; in fact it will likely make
people dismiss it. After all Canadians
have denied (in some cases multiple times) these people a chance to
govern. Why then would Canadians pay any
particular attention to them?
I haven’t read the
report, so I won’t make a final verdict on it. I will say, however, that it sounds like the same report we have all
read (heard of) a thousand times. I will
summarize in three statements; “We are
all doomed”, “We must change everything” and most alarmingly, “only government
can save us.” Or as the paper put it “But the crucial missing piece has been
effective policies, which only governments can enact.”
Perhaps the greatest public service that these four have done is to ensure that no one takes this statist crap seriously.
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on September 9, 2008 | Permalink
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Ditto.
Posted by: Paul McKeever | 2008-09-09 10:33:25 PM
“We are all doomed”, “We must change everything” and most alarmingly, “only government can save us.” Or as the paper put it “
Sounds about right. Sheep are much easier to rule when they're kept in fear.
Ohhhh I'm so scared....Government Pleeeease save meeee.
What a bunch of crap.
Posted by: JC | 2008-09-09 10:46:06 PM
We are drowning in a sea of brainwashed idiots.Our only salvation is to pray that these people can find a job someday , you know....give them some insight into the real world when they can't sit around all day listening to the CBC.
Posted by: peterj | 2008-09-10 12:08:24 AM
From the Shotgun on Saturday, January 21, 2006:
'So Paul Martin, Kim Campbell, Joe Clark and John Turner meet in a bar to brag about their, err, accomplishments as Prime Minister.
'Kim Campbell said "I will always be remembered as the first ever woman Prime Minister".
'Joe Clark said "I will always be remembered as the youngest ever Prime Minister"
'Paul Martin said "I will always be remembered as the guy who almost destroyed the Liberal Party."
'John Turner looked positively depressed. "But that's what I was remembered for. Now no one will remember me at all".'
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2006/01/your_punchline_.html
Posted by: Flashback | 2008-09-10 12:22:28 AM
Four hiccups of history pontificating. Is this sort of flawed judgement why the voters turfed them?
Posted by: JMD | 2008-09-10 6:15:18 AM
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