Blogger Thoughts-Pensées considers the apparent dream team that is the current Canadian cabinet:
Minister of Health is a doctor. Minister of Transport is an astronaut. Minister of National Defense is a Sikh Veteran. Minister of Youth is under the age of 45. Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food is a former farmer. Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness was a Scout. Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development was a financial analyst. Minister of Finance is a successful businessman. Minister of Justice was a crown prosecutor and is a First Nations leader. Minister of Sport, and Persons with Disabilities is a visually impaired Paralympian. Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Canadian Coastguard is Inuit. Minister of Science is a medical geographer with a PhD. Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees was an Immigration critic. There are scientists in the cabinet, and it is made up of 50% women.
And the icing on the cake?
Via Lydia Chrabieh
(H/T: john Gallen)
Having a farmer as a Minister for Agriculture or a teacher as a Minister for Education isn’t something to be necessarily shouting about. They’ll only know how to change the system for the betterment of their industry mates.
Totally agree, it is generally a bad idea as they have too many friends who will be affected by reforms. Just because someone knows how to drive it doesn’t make them a mechanic.
O’Reilly and Varadkar are two examples. Professional knowledge of the sector does not automatically make one qualified to run a government dept.
That said, Health is a poisoned chalice unlike any other.
Dermot Ahern and Shatter in Justice; both disasters.
How could I have forgotten Shatter?
Hanafin in education….
Depends on the farmer, his farming experience, the size of the business he runs etc…. they’re not all Healy-Raes ya know. Some have more business experience than most of our Ministers who went straight from college to politics.
Basically, you should qualify the comment before disqualifying all farmers. My tuppence.
It is a qualified comment, that’s why I said “isn’t something to be necessarily shouting about”.
Have any of them written any plays?
A good player does not make a good coach, and visa versa.
I thought all politicians were primary school teachers on indefinite do-nothing leave? What strange country is this Canada you speak of?
I think it’s near Kanadia.
Pfff. Could he BE any more in the friend zone. Loser.
War-recruiters and glorifiers with their poppies…
a doctor as minister for health
we should definitely do that
Or a lawyer in the Department of Justice. Always for the best.
Yes, the bright sparks here got rid of one of their few shining lights in that department.
“a doctor as minister for health”
– or these days maybe a person who eats well, exercises a reasonable amount and stays slim.
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness was a Scout. Yes, that certainly makes them qualified… Also surly the Minister for Innovation, Science and Economic Development and the Minister for Finance should swap roles?
And the Minister of Music has a cool synthesiser.
Got the Human League in to advise her?
Justin picked her out, he shook her up, and turned her into someone new.
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got to be better than, teacher, teacher, teacher, teacher, doctor, teacher, teacher…..
Damn right !
But teachers are great power people. Years in the classroom telling kids that it is their way or no way translates very well into politics.
You forgot the washed-up GAA players
His father was prime minister. This is dynastic politics and something Canadians should be ashamed of.
Yes. We have no history of this here.
Absolutely none! Move along, nothing to see here, shoo!
He was the Anti-Harper Candidate so hence the majority…he also is legalising The HERB
Julien Mercille was offered the ministry of propaganda but declined because of his Broadsheet commitments
Nothing more onerous a commitment than that of self-glorification . Happy he declined. I love a bit of comedy on a wet Monday morn.
Friend of mine went to Uni with Trudeau. He spoke a lot …… often ……. liked himself. Fancied himself.
Mind you she said she figured he’d go nowhere. Now.
Obligatory ‘Imagine that PM was a woman and we were comparing her to a disney princess and judging her on her looks’ comment.
It wasn’t going there til you mentioned it.
…but a fair point none the less.
Shan’t argue that. It is a fair point.
I dunno. There’s a bit of merit to it but is racially abusing a black guy in a white country the same as racially abusing a white guy in a white country? It’s not, is it.
and today’s “Leap in Logic” award goes to MoyestwithExcitement .Hurrah .
Ben Carson is a retired neurosurgeon, Donald Trump is a successful businessman, and Jeb Bush is a son and brother of a former president. Don’t be afraid.
Actually Donald Trump isn’t that successful a business man, he had a rich daddy.
Apparently if he had taken his inheritance and invested and invested it in something like the NASDAQ 100 or other similar wide ranging portfolio he would be worth multiples of what is he is now, so he may in fact be quite a bad business man.
Check this out, he has the same kind of thinking as you on this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/03/if-donald-trump-followed-this-really-basic-advice-hed-be-a-lot-richer/
… He is a billionaire today despite this poor performance because when he started his career, his father had already built a colossal real-estate empire. And the wealth Donald Trump has accumulated since then has at times come at the expense of taxpayers or the banks and investors who have lent him money.
Canada needs teachers!
I suppose Justin Bieber would be a good candidate as Minister for Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht. Or Jim Carrey, or Celine Dion.
My Art Will Go On
it looks to forced to have the most inclusive and PC friendly cabinet he can.
Gender quotas and all that lark – Micky Martin must be puking in envy.
as noted above having a farmer in argiculture etc…isn’t always the best thing..
Syriza are going to get jealous Mercille has a new government to fawn over. One that won’t break his heart by facing up to reality… just yet.
G’luck trying ta’ manage that many experts
That PM might be as pretty as Beckam
But getting that many heads from that wide range of professions to even share the tea break bikkies will be a chore that’ll turn him Cowen
I hope the Government reverses the frightening lurch to the right that has happened in Canada recently but making a bunch of token appointments will not necessarily achieve that.