This is who Canada puts in as the next governor general.
Luckily the position holds very little power.
Posted on 09/22/2005 2:38:38 PM PDT by NZerFromHK
The Liberals are betting that voters are just fine with having an unaccomplished terrorist-sympathizer as our head of state
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"A pretty face, and a nice pair of thighs." This rather vulgar, and refreshingly sexist remark was made to me by a former colleague of hers at Radio-Canada, about our next governor general. (Or, as I prefer to put it, "governess general of our nanny state.") Michaëlle Jean is perhaps the spaciest viceregal selection in the whole history of our Dominion; and no, I haven't forgotten Ed Schreyer, nor Jeanne Sauvé, nor Roméo LeBlanc, nor Adrienne Clarkson.
Taking this last for a standard, it could at least be said that she had some notion of what the job might entail. She was an immigrant from an era when civics courses were taught, which went beyond blather about "multiculturalism" to include the rudiments of constitutional law. She was (and remains) quite intelligent and capable of keeping her mouth closed in key moments. She took seriously her role as commander-in-chief of the Canadian Armed Forces, championing the interests of perhaps Canada's most beleaguered and insulted minority--our dwindling band of soldiers, sailors and airmen.
But it is in the nature of our quickly degenerating country, that each new appointment makes the last seem almost plausible. This is equally true of our elected officials. Paul Martin has made me begin to appreciate the few and miserable virtues of Jean Chrétien. He in turn made Brian Mulroney seem like a god.
No, I am not distressed by the fact that Michaëlle Jean is a closet separatist, whose French husband (if they are properly married) hung out with separatist revolutionaries, and who had his library designed by a man convicted of garroting Pierre Laporte with the chain of his religious medallion. A library designed with hidey-holes for weapons. These, and other tidbits from Quebec's French-language media are just what I would expect of a person belonging to the Radio-Canada elite. Anyone with half a brain in Quebec is a separatist, anyway. And since the last person with a whole brain died around 1980, I don't expect more.
It did strike me, after hearing what the appointment would be, that Jean would be at a loss in any sort of constitutional crisis. That is part of the governor general's job, you know--along with dressing up, visiting with Eskimos, and giving out medals from the big barrel in Rideau Hall.
But on further reflection, that did not bother me, either. We already had a constitutional crisis this past spring, when the government lost five consecutive votes of confidence in the House of Commons, and did not call an election. The vote being quite close, the prime minister simply waited until a member of the Opposition presented herself to be bought off (cheaply, with a minor cabinet post), and went on governing as if nothing had happened. No one stirred.
And the Canadian people, who, according to the polls, have already forgotten what the word "Gomery" means, were no more outraged by that than they will be by the appointment of a person like Michaëlle Jean to be their governess. Three in four Canadian voters, according to recent polls, would vote for a crook, a commie or a separatist before they would consider voting for the Hon. Stephen J. Harper. (I know the proportion is lower in Alberta, but as I have explained privately to numerous readers of the Western Standard, the province lacks a sea coast or even a lakeshore, so I cannot yet contemplate moving there.)
The manner of Jean's appointment, so far as we have it from the big mouth of the prime minister's private secretary, Hélène Scherrer, adds to the craziness. It was she who suggested Jean for the job--not any kind of appointments committee. It appears that her boss, a certain Paul Martin, immediately flushed on the idea of a francophone, black, female immigrant from Haiti with on-air television experience.
Martin had to tell Scherrer twice to go see this Jean, and offer her the job, because the first time Scherrer didn't take him seriously. She must herself have realized, inwardly, that the whole idea was a joke.
Oh Canada. O my dear Canada.
Quebec outside Montreal can form their own country and hopefully succeed, and leave us the Montreal-Southern Ontario area as the "rump" of Canada that is a socialist time bomb destined to fail.
Ping!
This is who Canada puts in as the next governor general.
Luckily the position holds very little power.
I beat you by 6 seconds...
I've got a better idea. Have New England join Canada, and we'll take Northern Ontario and everything west.
You are quite right. Judging from Canadians from there, I would say most of your Democratic senators would be like their redneck conservatives LOL.
The manner of Jean's appointment, so far as we have it from the big mouth of the prime minister's private secretary, Hélène Scherrer, adds to the craziness. It was she who suggested Jean for the job--not any kind of appointments committee. It appears that her boss, a certain Paul Martin, immediately flushed on the idea of a francophone, black, female immigrant from Haiti with on-air television experience.
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OMG!!! Can I return my Canadian citizenship?
I think it would be easier if Canadian conservatives who've had enough just charter a bus south.
I'll put them up at my house til they get situated.
Even better idea ~ take the whole place and send all those foreigners back where they came from.
I don't understand this defeatism. Canada runs twin surpluses, has a resource-based economy and a strong currency and its population growth is even higher than that of the US. I would think Canada is in great shape.
You don't want Saskatchewan, they are a very social-democratic province.
I would gladly welcome BC (Including Vancouver-the only real liberal part of the province besides a few hippy mountain towns), Alberta-very conservative and pro-US (Klein, the premier, is a staunch US ally) to join the US.
Well, I'd welcome most of Canada, everything besides Toronto, Ottawa, and Quebec, which are very socialist, whiny, 'entitlement' states. Leave them as their own country, which would in turn suck all the socialists from other provinces out, if they became part of the US!! :-)
It would be fun to hear them all scream as their failed policies sink their socialist paradise.
The territories would be cool to have, it has to be beautiful up there and there is good industry (oil, diamond mining, etc). But they do tend to lean left. On the other hand, 95% of the revenue from the diamond mines in the NWT are stolen by Ottawa. Give that back to the people there, and I'm sure that they would be happy.
Maybe we could just buy the parts of Canada we want and annex them. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the Canadian government willing to deal.
LOL
Ha! The irony!
"Skylab" complains about a "sky-is-falling" attitude! Weeee!
I have no idea what any of these positions/people are/do.
I need a bunny and a pancake.
Canada.... lol!
I don't know if I remember Aylmer near Gatineau is still non-sepratist and beautiful too.
Oh and in Quebec you can buy beer in Grocery Stores (shocking) If you've never been to Canada this will make no sense to you.
I thnik the guy doth protest too much who gives a crap about the GG (I didn't even know there still was one)
As for Harper (sigh) ...... Martin ate the guy and spit him out. Time for a real leader.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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