As IF Times

link Canada government defeated in non-confidence vote – Yahoo! News.

There’s an ancient anecdote about a movie that was made about the lives of an husband and wife team of brilliant scientists.  As they were watching the movie depiction, during a particularly steamy love scene, the real life wife leaned over to her husband and whispered, ” I don’t remember it being like this”.  The husband responded, “that my dear is because they are professionals and we are only amateurs”.  This stupid story reminds me of what has just happened in Canada.

The opposition parties have ganged up on the minority Conservative party to force the 4th federal election in 7 years.  Apparently, the opposition Liberal and NDP parties are expressing the mandate of  “the people” in pushing for a vote.  There is no anecdotal evidence that anyone wants another election, but hey, they are the professionals, so they must have some special insight.

If anyone has noticed, Canada at the moment is a bastion of calm both politically and economically in a world where everywhere else there is chaos and uncertainty.  There are no religious or cultural protests in the streets.  There are no burnings of effigies.  We are not at war with anyone.  There are no massive bank failures.  There is no imploding real estate sinkhole.  The currency is at an all time high versus the U.S. counterpart, our main trade partner.  The economy overall is strong with worldwide demand for our commodity products.  Thank goodness we have the Liberals and NDP willing to come to the rescue and save Canadians from all of this disaster.

The professional politicians are at it again.  The leaders of the opposition parties, Ignatieff and Layton,  both lack experience in any executive capacity; they are either academics or of some other crazed ideological bent that want to foist some tired notions of socialism upon the nation.  We know how that worked out just across the border to the south.  A handful of entitled people, otherwise unemployable, pushing their  mandate upon 35 million others who are living lives of relative tranquility.  For the benefit of these idiots, the way the  nation is running now is the way it’s supposed to be when things work.  The only thing they don’t like is that they’re not in charge.  These are people whose only role in life has been to suck on the nation’s political teat.  Let’s hope the amateurs rise up and make these ‘professionals’ pursue new professions in the next election.   I hear Cuba is looking for new leadership.

link CBC News – Canada – Guergis handling catastrophic: Ignatieff.

Really? Catastrophic?  Not unfortunate, poorly handled or even stupid, but catastrophic? Like polar ice melting, or hurricanes, or Liberal electoral wins?  Three balls in the water on a short par 3 is catastrophic, but kicking someone out of cabinet for an alleged misdeed?  Where’s the sense of perspective here?  It must be incumbent upon politicians to lace their epithets with bizarre hyperbole in order to make very small points.  Was the lack of croissants at the parliamentary buffet a catastrophe, one that should shame all Canadians?  

Certainly Ignatieff is not the only one guilty of disingenuous hyperbole in his comments. To some degree, the inflated language makes some sense since most voters have tuned out the babblings of most politicians because little of consequence is ever said.  There is seldom any candor in any announcements that are made and most expect that any utterances will contain some kind of partisan spin.  The favoured line of politicians in our country is, “The people of Canada….” fill in the blank.  Every time someone utters that annoying hackneyed phrase, just substitute it with what they really mean, which is ” our party thinks that”.

One of the most annoying phrases ever uttered was by a former Prime Minister who professed that whatever policies they championed were in alignment “with da Canadian values” which really meant the wants of the federal Liberal party.  Ask any one in Canada what da Canadian values are and they’ll reply “almost at par with the American at the moment, about 98 cents”.

People should take a day off and sit in the legislatures of their provinces or if they’re able to, take in a session of parliament.  The posturing, histrionics and cajolling are great entertainment and eye opening for anyone who thinks that the law process is sober and reflective.  Since most are trained lawyers, the scene more resembles  thespians overacting in an audition than people with sharp legal minds.  Supposedly, they are acting in our best interests.  Methinks they’re just acting.