The Rick Mercer Perspective

So this morning I opened a news article from CBC about the Conservatives defending the firing of the president of the Nuclear Safety Watchdog: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/16/keen-firing.html?ref=rss

Their reasoning being that Linda Keen showed a “lack of leadership”.

I then go on to read my next aggregated story, this time from Rick Mercer’s Blog: http://www.rickmercer.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/1/15/Come-on-in-the-waters-fine

I love how he is able to put things in perspective, not to mention his rip on Gary Lunn:

“Now, normally, in these situations the buck should stop with the minister in charge. That would be Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, who, as it turns out, knew that this plant didn’t have a safety back-up system four months ago and did absolutely nothing. Not a problem according to Gary because in his opinion they don’t need one. And Gary should know. After all, this is a man who spent most of his professional life teaching public education courses on home renovation contracts. So, by all means, if you wanna know if you should run your rain pipe down the left or right side of your house call Gary. But other than that, everything this man knows about nuclear power he basically learned reading a Spider-Man comic.”