So there we have it, pussy-cat for pit-bull, as if that was the problem, much less the solution.

Now we can have Stephen Harper’s views on climate change yelled at us, given previous efforts to put it in a pretty package failed.

I can just imagine what the cabinet shuffle briefing was like “here, your turn, don’t you F’k it up! – Don’t F’n worry! … in the meantime, Rona, where’s my F’n coffee?”

I’ll apologize in advance for my vulgarity, I’m just not happy with today’s served-up hypocrisy. In his press conference earlier this morning, Mr. Harper confessed ‘the environment is more than just communication.’  Gee, you think?

Asked if he thought his government missed recognizing the importance of the environment file, Mr. Harper first needed to choke and sip his kool-aid. Answer? ‘I have you to point out my mistakes so there’s no need for me to comment further.’   I am told, on pretty good authority, that’s as close as Mr. Harper comes to admitting he ever makes mistakes.

Suffice it to say – and the irony isn’t lost – that today January 4, 2007, the Prime Minister stood outside, wearing only a suit jacket, in Ottawa, in 9 degree Celsius sunshine, and told us, ‘that Canadians have told him we have a problem.’  I’ll say it again. You think?

This space has sufficiently commented Oct 26, Dec 15, Dec 17, and Dec 22, on what I believe is really going on. I won’t rehash it all again.

Now it’s simply a question of who, in the estimation of Canadians, should be worthy of a mandate to address the problem once-and-for-all; a pit-bull in a china shop taking over from the battered-and-bruised, or the same guys who dithered once before, or, someone who MAY actually know something about the file?

Don’t know about you, but Canadian Tire mechanics don’t tinker with my car either.