Elbowgate? Boobgate? This is politics?
Good Afternoon,
Canadian politics are often tame and sedate when compared to other countries. Our scandals are mild but when they hit the presses... Watch out!
The current example is how to lose ALL political credibility for your party within Canadian politics. Given that the political animal has the memory of a cantelope I am sure that it has already been forgotten and this is sand in the wind, but I hope people remember this when the next election is called. If you're curious, google the video. You can get commentary and slow motions and expert testimony and twenty-seven 8×10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against them.
The abidged version, based upon what I saw of the incident, is that there was a vote going on for a bill for assisted suicide. A conservative was trying to get to vote and in a display not seen since the days of primary school the NDP were blocking his passage and all attempts on the part of the conservative to get through. Seeing this, our prime minister, who I am still on the fence about, cut through the crowd to get the Conservative through to vote on this bill. In the process our PM's elbow made contact with the breast of a female NDP MP. The PM apologized to her afterwards. And has repeatedly since.
What followed again was a childish display, the NDP all showed up in bandages and slings and wheel chairs and crutches bemoaning of how they were injured by the Prime Minister and only to make them look more foolish.
I don't agree with much that the green party says, but Elizabeth said it best when she said, "We're adults here."
What gets me is that most women who saw that comment saying that was nothing compared to what happens day to day on the bus or elevator, or just around the house. Trying to snag the PM on a phony sexual misconduct situation sets back a lot of the respect that women have been fighting for for years.
It makes my head hurt and I don't like it.
Wayne
Canadian politics are often tame and sedate when compared to other countries. Our scandals are mild but when they hit the presses... Watch out!
The current example is how to lose ALL political credibility for your party within Canadian politics. Given that the political animal has the memory of a cantelope I am sure that it has already been forgotten and this is sand in the wind, but I hope people remember this when the next election is called. If you're curious, google the video. You can get commentary and slow motions and expert testimony and twenty-seven 8×10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against them.
The abidged version, based upon what I saw of the incident, is that there was a vote going on for a bill for assisted suicide. A conservative was trying to get to vote and in a display not seen since the days of primary school the NDP were blocking his passage and all attempts on the part of the conservative to get through. Seeing this, our prime minister, who I am still on the fence about, cut through the crowd to get the Conservative through to vote on this bill. In the process our PM's elbow made contact with the breast of a female NDP MP. The PM apologized to her afterwards. And has repeatedly since.
What followed again was a childish display, the NDP all showed up in bandages and slings and wheel chairs and crutches bemoaning of how they were injured by the Prime Minister and only to make them look more foolish.
I don't agree with much that the green party says, but Elizabeth said it best when she said, "We're adults here."
What gets me is that most women who saw that comment saying that was nothing compared to what happens day to day on the bus or elevator, or just around the house. Trying to snag the PM on a phony sexual misconduct situation sets back a lot of the respect that women have been fighting for for years.
It makes my head hurt and I don't like it.
Wayne