New Heritage Minister, empahsis on the "new"
James Moore, star of this blog’s most popular post of all time, has been named the new Canadian Heritage Minister. He is best known for being one of the youngest MPs and Ministers in history – he’s 32 now – as well as being the MP who caused a stir last year by being vilified for looking at pornography in the House of Commons on his laptop. It turned out he was not looking at porn he was actually looking at, and I’m not making this up, semi nude photos of his girlfriend that she emailed to him. The NDP MP who brought it up later apologized for some strange reason. (If he was still looking at inappropriate images why apologize?)
As near as I can tell he has no history with anything “Heritage” related. He was a broadcaster for a couple months between being a student – political science, natch – and a politician. Other than speaking French, but Lord knows that isn’t much of a qualification. (Stephane Dion, I’m looking in your direction…)
While we’re on the topic of ‘things that give me pause’, why is his official website a .org? James Moore is an organization? That would strike me as rather narcissistic. Let’s hope that is not a sign of things to come. I’m keeping my fingers crossed really, really hard.
PS – I really don’t want to nit-pick, but what is with the dog photo? Trying to one up Stephen Harper and his cats?
Sleeping and soft porn in the House!
Is life so boring in Canadian politics right now that members of our governments have nothing better to do other than keep themselves entertained? Is it really such a slow news week on the political front that these are news stories? Are we really so lame that we should care about such boring things?
1. Yup, someone was upset at this display:
The all-night sitting provoked some unusual behaviour. It’s normally deemed unparliamentary for MLA to put their feet up on someone else’s legislature chair. But when it’s 9 a.m. Wednesday and the assembly has been debating since the previous day, such manners are generally excused.
Richard Magnus was the Calgary Conservative MLA in the government’s back row, feet up, eyes closed, mouth open, seemingly oblivious to the Liberal hectoring and Tory heckling about this bizarre marathon of democracy.
2. And, more understandably, an NDP MP was upset at this display of a Conservative MP viewing images of a woman in “flimsy lingere” on his laptop in the House of Commons. CalgaryGrit has an excellent riff on the “scantily clad” woman fiasco. The MP’s explaination – after insisting for few hours that he was not looking at such images – is that she was his girlfriend. Although if she was James Moore’s girlfriend that still doesn’t explain why he was looking at half nude photos of her while in the House of Commons. Weird. And kinda creepy if you ask me.
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