NDP MP’s pathetic attempt at damage control over seal hunt comments

Trying to make up for a career-ending mistake of questioning the seal hunt, the NDP’s Ryan Cleary shows up for a photo-op wearing a borrowed seal-skin vest with this idiotic line:

“until I can buy one, that I can afford.” (see here)

Are you flipping kidding me? The guy makes $160,000 a year. The average per capita income for someone in Newfoundland/Labrador is $34,000 and I’ll go out-on-a-limb and guess seal hunters don’t make even that.

I certainly will be looking forward to PETA posting Cleary’s picture wearing this skin after making him out to be their hero (see here).

 

French gov’t asked NDP’s Mulcair to lobby Canada on their behalf?

A very interesting paragraph from the National Post’s Peter Kuitenbrouwer article on Canada’s government not wanting dual citizens voting in France’s elections on our soil:

A blog post on the website of the TV channel France 3 says that the French government asked Thomas Mulcair, the NDP MP in Montreal who is a dual citizen of France and Canada, to help it smooth out differences with Canada over the upcoming vote. “Then the Conservatives used the argument to denounce him as a political opponent doing the bidding of a foreign state,” the site adds. Mr. Mulcair did not return a phone call for comment. (see here)

Mulcair’s dual citizenship was a hot topic last week (see here) and he should not be allowed to side-step answering the question of whether or not the French were trying to use him as a go-between.