Comments on: Governor-General, Affirmative Action, and Breast Implants

By: George Freeman

George Freeman — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:32 +0000

Democracy describes a general ideal that a governed people should rule themselves.

Canada is a constitutional monarchy, and whether Canadian subjects of this regime deserve it, is open to debate. But seeing as most Canadians are born to the country they get, and thereby don’t ever get a choice in what type of government they will have, the question of what Canadians deserve is rather moot.

The problem with Canada is that it is not even a well functioning constitutional monarchy, where legitimacy is bestowed on government authority from the right sources, corruption being checked by those sources—whether they be democratic or monarchical. As you rightly point out, most government action is orchestrated by “a corrupt, desparate and third rate minority Prime Minister”—poster boy of the Canadian oligarchy, as Cerber calls it.

By: bijoux55

bijoux55 — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:26:52 +0000

George: We get the government we deserve. Canada is one of the oldest democracies in the world yet are our senate and the head of state, the gg are appointed in an undemocratic and obscure pork barrel fiesta. Most banana republics are more democratic.

The appointment of Michaelle Jean: FLQ consorting, pea brained, government dole subsisting, marxist left wing hipsters that they are has been a wake up call for me. If she was elected, god forbid, I would have to suck it up and accept it. But appointed by a corrupt, desparate and third rate minority Prime Minister as insurance against the dissolution of his crumbling government. It is frightening.

By: George Freeman

George Freeman — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:27:53 +0000

As a whole, parliamentary democracy in Canada is in a pretty decrepit state. The appointments of M. Jean and M. Clarkson are farcical in nature, when you consider how such appointments disgrace the top office in the country because of under-qualification and lack of legitimate appointment process. Such appointments show little regard for the fact that Canada has a monarch, one who maybe deserves better representation than that offered by Liberal-loving-public-trough-historically-disenfranchised cronies.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:53:03 +0000

Before Jean came along, Marc Garneau was thought to have a good chance. Unfortunately, he didn’t meet the selection criteria (didn’t work for the CBC).

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:46:03 +0000

Bijoux: You wouldn’t get chosen GG even if you were a foreign born immigrant. Offices and honors in this country are open only to specific sorts of people with very specific ideological commitments and cronies. The rest of us must stumble on under their yokes.

By: bijoux55

bijoux55 — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:47:54 +0000

One more hurdle for Pam. She was born in British Columbia. By my count Canadian born citizens were only allowed to be GG’s from 1952 to 1992.

Oscar Peterson, Romeo Dallaire, Rick Hanson, Nancy Greene, even Terry Fox or Norman Bethune if alive, would not now have a shot.

Why? Although Paul Martin cannot seem to think beyond the end of his penis as far as GG appointments go (accordingly Pam would be head and, um, shoulders above Madam Jean) he is kowtowing to the immigrant populuation to which Pam does not belong. There is nothing wrong with immigrants, or foriegn born GG’s, but have we not grown up enough as a country to permit native born Canadians a shot at our top honour.

Our birth rate is plummeting. As a Canadian woman who has single handedly raised two kids I know it is a big committment and a lot a work. Is it too much to ask that I could dream that my son or daughter could one day be the Governor General of Canada. No. Well that is why we will soon be a geriatic country being cared for by foreign born immigrants. Not that there is anything wrong with that.