Well one thing is obvious: Pauline Marois doesn’t appear to have a lot of experience with pots and pans.

The casserole-banging premier-in-waiting and separatiste-en-chef seems to have some difficulty with them.

The most baffling thing is Marois says she doesn’t regret her impromptu performance in a cacophony of deafening pan beating.

She says she would do it again.

I guess she just isn’t seeing what most of us are seeing.

Can you imagine her leading our province?

Once again, she has proven she is not fit for high office.

 

Save the date: September 17th

When you see Jean Charest in a hard hat opening a new Hydro Quebec generating station, when you see the Liberals on the offensive with their ads, when you see MNAs announcing retirements...

When you do the math it’s clear that Quebecers will choose a new government soon.

How it will play out is anyone’s guess, although most Quebecers, I imagine, would prefer none of the above.

 

Harper wooing Quebec

Meanwhile, Stephen Harper is at it again.

Harper wants to figure out what lies in the hearts of Quebec voters so he is entertaining a charm campaign.

It will take more than a couple of winks and a nudge to get a date with Quebecers.

His government is clearly out of touch with what’s going on here.

Some of it is perception, but in politics perception is reality.

Perhaps the Harperites could begin with their almost unnatural obsession with the Royals.

Perhaps they could rethink their positions on gun control.

Perhaps they could learn something about compromise.

This is one seduction that will take more than whispering sweet nothings and placing flowers on the night table.

 

Happy Canada Day

On this Canada Day weekend, with apologies to Jean Chretien, I don’t know if this is the greatest country in the world.

That’s a little presumptuous. There are 196 countries in all, but I do know this is a pretty fine place to live.

We are indeed fortunate, and we are more patriotic than most of us may believe.

A new survey finds three quarters of us of encourage overt displays of patriotism such as waving the flag, including 20 percent who say they would consider getting a maple leaf tattoo. They don’t say where.

Our preferred national food is salmon--either Pacific or Atlantic--followed by poutine, and our preferred national drink is obviously beer.

We may be a little understated sometimes in how we express ourselves, but don’t doubt the attachment most of us have to the true north strong and free

With very good reason eh?

Happy Canada Day, Bonne fete du Canada!