A Canadian magazine,
Maclean's, editorializes about Canada's sponsorship scandal, that it is worse than the U.S. Scootergate, which was responsibly investigated and acted upon.
(Sponsership scandal: Friends of the former Prime Minister milked off millions right under his nose; the current Prime Minister was then Minister of Finance, so, both their noses; both the former PM and the current one claim total innocence. It all happened during the two years when they both just happened to be looking the other way. The buck stops, it seems, on the desk of some petty bureaucrat.)
I e-mailed Macleans my opinion, as an 'e-mail to the editor'. I agreed with the editorial. I called us Canadians 'pusillanimous', and it was in the sense of this definition from MW that I used it: "lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity".
Why? Because, it seems, the arrogant Liberals have so little respect for the backbone of the Canadian people that it seems they plan to use this strategy to avoid the fall of their government:
Should the opposition parties call for a vote of confidence, and should the Canadian government fall as a result, the Liberals plan to win the election by calling the other parties 'grinches'.
See, the election campaign would interfere with Christmas festivities. Canvassers, not carollers, would knock on doors. Canadians would be so insulted by this that they would forget which party had ripped them off royally, and vote against the opposition parties out of spite.
How cynical those Liberals are about Canadian backbone!
And they're probably right.
A people gets the government it deserves.
Maclean's editorial Do you Americans agree that the Scootergate issue was properly handled? If so, how did the outcome affect how you feel about the Bush administration?
