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Actually, the current Conservative silly season began this weekend, when Heritage Minister and minister responsible for the CBC and official languages James Moore could not identify Atom Egoyan, Félix Leclerc, Radio-Canada anchor Céline Galipeau, or Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté.
So we have a culture minister who doesn't know major cultural figures, a science minister who's either a creationist or a Lamarckian or both, and a former Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages who didn't speak French.
As a thought experiment, what will be next? An HIV/AIDS denier as Minister of Health? A man as Min.State for Status of Women? A Minister of Foreign Affairs who can see the United States from her backyard?
So we have a culture minister who doesn't know major cultural figures, a science minister who's either a creationist or a Lamarckian or both, and a former Parliamentary Secretary for Official Languages who didn't speak French.
As a thought experiment, what will be next? An HIV/AIDS denier as Minister of Health? A man as Min.State for Status of Women? A Minister of Foreign Affairs who can see the United States from her backyard?