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I Shaved My Head When Robert Stanfield Died

"...because Canadian politics is a baffling mystery that, when explained, still doesn't make sense, and has no bearing on anything." -Commenter on a Diefenbaker YTMND I made

Sunday, May 21, 2006

He must have been an Impartial Partisan Conservative:

Good ol' JJ. He never ceases to swallow the Post's spin whole hog. Recently Harper tried to appoint an independent appointments czar. Former Encana CEO Gwyn Morgan. JJ explains:

"But the parliamentary committee rejected him, in an embarrassing set-back. And why did they do this? "He said that refugees tended to be less qualified than economic immigrants. He questioned the role of multiculturalism," said New Democratic Party MP Peggy Nash, who introduced the motion to reject Morgan."

-JJ McCullough, May 18th, 2006

Of course this must be the only reason that the other 5 members of the 6-5 majority supported Nash's motion, after amendment. It must have nothing to do with the fact that Harper's man appointed to departisanise the appointments process has done Conservatvie fundraising, and is to a good degree a partisan Conservative. Why would JJ blame post-modernism, which is, to my mind, the scourge of Canadian poltical discourse, for blocking the appointment of a well-heeled party hack? Certainly, it's not because he's as blindly partisan a Conservative as the orator of our last words today:

"Of course I'll appoint Liberals and New Democrats. When I've been in office for fifteen years and there isn't a living, breathing, Tory anywhere left in the country!"

-The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney.

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