Canadian Politics is a Joke

A couple of days ago, the entire left-hand column at National Newswatch was filled with “opinion pieces” on Karlheinz Shreiber. Today, Jason Kenney pointed out what every Canadian who is not a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery already knows: No One Cares.

Jason Kenney mentioned on MDL tonight that he hasn’t had one email from a constituent regarding Karlheinz Schreiber. Outside of Parliament, MSM and political junkies like you and I, one wonders how many people are talking about it.

Oh yeah, and the Liberal Party. Even the perennially idiotic Canadian populace knows that Stephen Harper, who still thought Preston Manning was cool when Shreiber passed Mulroney the envelope in question, can hardly be implicated in this. Not everyone, of course. You have to scroll to Garth Turner’s comment section to find this tear-jerker from sentimentalist “I Believe in Canada”:

Isn’t Schreiber a Canadian citizen? Why is he being extradited? Only one reason and that’s to silence him.

I will admit that it is possible that Stephen Harper used his Sauron-like powers eight years ago to look into the future and commence extradition hearings against Shreiber in preparation for the controversies of today. But of course the real question is: What kind of country allows someone to avoid extradition for eight years, most of them spent out on bail living the high life in, for example, “posh rockcliffe townhouses”?

Which is why you haven’t seen Conservatives, let alone Harper, doing much to defend Mulroney. [Did anyone else laugh out loud when a "Mulroney associate" revealed that Mulroney was nearly destitute when he accepted an envelope of cash from Shreiber?] Shreiber and Mulroney are the same insiders. They live in the same posh houses; they attend the same cocktail parties. Mulroney was parasitic on the taxpayer; Shreiber was in turn parasitic on politicians like Mulroney. Now that he’s lost his Tory contacts, Shreiber’s moved on to a new host: The Liberals.

And the National Press Gallery.