Vapours in an Ottawa Train Station
I forced myself to watch some of the tragi-comedy posing as governance going on in the old Ottawa train station.
The vacuity of Mr. Martin's statements is best summed up with the quote below, reported on cbc.ca today. There is no platitude Mr. Martin has heard and not fallen in love with.
"There are going to be times when an added injection of funding is required," he said at the televised meeting. "...I have been told by a number of the leading medical professionals that if what you're going to do is attack wait times, you've really got to attack wait times. You've got to break the back of the problem, and once you've broken the back of the problem, then in fact it becomes much more [manageable]."
Dare we guess how much of our money the government paid to those "leading medical professionals"? I would gladly have given Mr. Martin the same advice for free - at least he would have gotten his money's worth. I would have gladly added some extra advice .
How about: "if you want to make the first step to reach a negotiation Mr. Martin, you need to make the first step to reach a negotiation." Or perhaps something more profound like: "If you want to make a fool of yourself Mr. Martin, just be yourself."
Is there some profundity in Mr. Martin's words that I am missing? Sadly it seems our PM is way over his head. Yesterday he was frequently required to confer sotto voce with his advisors, perhaps trying to understand the numbers in his own proposal to the provinces.
His Health Minister the reclaimed socialist Mr. Dosanjh needed no such counselling, he simply refused to talk about the numbers in his proposal - "I never talk numbers" he said. How NDP of him. Those of us in BC know all too well the NDP's aversion to numbers, unless they measure the funds paid out to their union friends.
A humourous visual aside was the sight of a grossly overweight aide to one of the premier's filling the TV screen scene behind him as she attempted to squeeze back into her chair with a coffee cup in hand, probably returning from her smoke break, while her boss droned on about the need for government to provide better health care.
Surely the muzak is playing Bring On the Clowns on a continuous loop in the background.
Aren't we glad we didn't elect that scary Stephen Harper?
Ben Buan
The vacuity of Mr. Martin's statements is best summed up with the quote below, reported on cbc.ca today. There is no platitude Mr. Martin has heard and not fallen in love with.
"There are going to be times when an added injection of funding is required," he said at the televised meeting. "...I have been told by a number of the leading medical professionals that if what you're going to do is attack wait times, you've really got to attack wait times. You've got to break the back of the problem, and once you've broken the back of the problem, then in fact it becomes much more [manageable]."
Dare we guess how much of our money the government paid to those "leading medical professionals"? I would gladly have given Mr. Martin the same advice for free - at least he would have gotten his money's worth. I would have gladly added some extra advice .
How about: "if you want to make the first step to reach a negotiation Mr. Martin, you need to make the first step to reach a negotiation." Or perhaps something more profound like: "If you want to make a fool of yourself Mr. Martin, just be yourself."
Is there some profundity in Mr. Martin's words that I am missing? Sadly it seems our PM is way over his head. Yesterday he was frequently required to confer sotto voce with his advisors, perhaps trying to understand the numbers in his own proposal to the provinces.
His Health Minister the reclaimed socialist Mr. Dosanjh needed no such counselling, he simply refused to talk about the numbers in his proposal - "I never talk numbers" he said. How NDP of him. Those of us in BC know all too well the NDP's aversion to numbers, unless they measure the funds paid out to their union friends.
A humourous visual aside was the sight of a grossly overweight aide to one of the premier's filling the TV screen scene behind him as she attempted to squeeze back into her chair with a coffee cup in hand, probably returning from her smoke break, while her boss droned on about the need for government to provide better health care.
Surely the muzak is playing Bring On the Clowns on a continuous loop in the background.
Aren't we glad we didn't elect that scary Stephen Harper?
Ben Buan
posted by Ben Buan | 4:26 p.m.
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