I know it takes a great deal of effort for me to say anything bad about my beloved Canada. I have seen and read about too many other places that just don't get it that I hate to admit we in the tundra can be asshats on occasion. But we are this time.
The upcoming G-20 and G-8 summits in Toronto is another occasion to put the best face on one of the best places in the world to live (in the top five for, like, FOREVER, bitches) but it seems that some dumb ass goof has been allowed to run too far with the idea of bringing the 'Canadian experience' to many of the 3000 journalist that will be here.
Instead of loading these freeloaders on a bus and taking them to one of our actual lakes (which number in the thousands), some numnut decided that it would be best to create a 10 cm deep lake indoors to the tune of $57,000 dollars! Sigh. Just like the real thing with beach chairs and everything. For that kind of money you would think they would make it like the wave pool at the mall.
We can't help it when our politicians make us look like goobers. You would think they just came back from classes in South Carolina.
"Opposition MPs are ridiculing the Conservative government for spending almost $2 million to create an artificial indoor lake and cottage backdrop inside a Toronto media centre for this month's G8 and G20 summits.
Summit organizers are constructing the artificial lake inside Toronto's Direct Energy Centre to showcase the actual site of the G8 summit hundreds of kilometres away in Huntsville, Ont., June 25-26. The temporary media centre will host all but about 150 of the estimated 3,000 journalists from around the world covering the G8, as well as the G20 summit in Toronto's downtown core June 26-27.
Opposition parties have targeted Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in recent weeks over the costs of the back-to-back international summits, which carry an estimated $1-billion price tag on security alone."
ONE BILLION for security? What are they putting in those guns? Gold bullets? That seems a bit excessive and I hope we aren't footing the entire bill for the safety of all those diplomats. I think we should just make it a free for all for all those self important asshats. Bring your own bullet catchers and don't leave it to us to make sure you are safe. You do realize you are coming to CANADA!!!! Where do you think you are going to be meeting? Downtown Mogadishu?
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/07/g8-summit-cost-question-period.html
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8 comments:
Cal, i left something for at my blog... i saw it and thought of you...
http://izombielover.blogspot.com/2010/06/cals-canadian-cave-of-coolness.html
iZombie
I for one am glad I didnt vote for these numbnuts. I hope this comes back to bite them in the ass come next election.
Go ahead Cal, sick the octopi on them!
What scares me is the Christian Right is taking over the Conservatives too, so we are doubly damned now.
Already taken care of my friend. I dare anyone to dip a toe into that indoor lake. Plans within plans.
That kind of 'god and guns' bs never took hold here in Alberta when is was strongest in the last decade or earlier so I have little fear it will ever be a force like it is in the states. Alot of their young people are ignorant and uneducated about the world. Most of our young people attend school and post high school long enough to avoid that kind of cracker behavior.
Oh you crazy canucks...
The indoor lake is only for the media? WTF! Give them $10 and send them to Ontario Place's beach the bumbs. The Energy centre is only 1km or more from frican lake Ontario!
Or Hell give them a fary ride to Toronto Island, you have isolation and nice beach. Lousy Consevatives. (OXYMORON, they spend like Liberals but wimper like Tories)
Tell me how you really feel Nomad. I agree with you. As political bone head plays go, this one is in the hall of fame.
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