On the occasional rudeness of cabinet ministers

Personal opinion of one citizen, namely me:

It's not the first time we've seen this sort of misbehaviour out of our federal cabinet ministers, no matter which party they happen to be affiliated with at the time of their rudeness. But this case seems particularly Offensive to me:

Joe Oliver, our federal minister for natural resources, has gotten himself into a Mess with some of his latest remarks about critics and opponents of the various pipeline proposals for getting oil from the Alberta Tarsands to their several possible markets.

Slamming one and all with the "radical" label without regard to the reasons behind their critiques and opposition is, to my own mind, an Act of Rudeness. One for which he ought to apologize.

Not that I expect an apology. He is sending the message his Prime Minister wants delivered, after all.

Filed under "Making Art"

You know that fire that budgie_uk lit under me by telling me about Mitch Benn's pro-BBC music?

Finally decided not to wait for any professional musician and started trying to find stuff in CBC history I can string together into verse.

This could take a while. Just so you know.