So, this is how the blog starts. As a long-time observer of the Canadian political scene, I've often been driven crazy by the nonsense and knee-jerk quality of media-political discourse, and I often want to say: "hold on, and think about this for a moment." But there's not always time to write an op-ed, and few submissions would be accepted anyway.
In the past two weeks, several things happened that got me going. The first was the hysteria in English-speaking Canada about the ties to the sovereigntist movement of Nycole Turmel, the new interim leader of the New Democratic Party. I actually got an op-ed about that in The Toronto Star, that is getting some interesting attention. It can be seen at: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1036360--english-speaking-canada-blind-to-turmel-affair.
On the same topic, I will return soon, in French, to an op-ed from last week in Le Devoir by political scientist André Lamoureux.
Thirdly - the topic of my next post - there is the silly notion that Canada faced a debt crisis in the 1990s that can offer lessons to US and European government on how to get out of the world's current crisis. I first heard this howler by commentators, but then Prime Minister Stephen Harper also offered it in comments to the media during his trip to Brasil. This is one that cries out for debunking.
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