It appears Iggy is getting frustrated with all the good news coming out of Canada these days: Canada’s Action Plan is working, and commercials and websites point out this fact. He is complaining that the Action Plan commercials and website are too… conservative. What, with pictures of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet of all things. Imagine that. He is complaining the commercial and website talk about “The Harper Government” and “Conservative Government” and should say “Canada’s Government”.

Hmm… I seem to recall a certain “conservative deficit” and “conservative budget” being mentioned, oh, say, last fall and Christmas (remember the Coalition of the Idiots?)… Just as this Liberal press release has numerous references to “Conservative Budget” and “Harper Government” and even mentions “Liberal Government” quite a few times. Oh, heck, just go through the Liberal Media Releases yourself, and try to find ANY reference to “Canada’s Government” in there…

It seems when the times are tough, it’s “Harper’s Government”, and when the times are good, it’s “Canada’s Government”. Almost as if the opposition parties somehow had something to do with the fact our economy seems to be the strongest in the world right now and they want some credit for it.

Well, I think poll numbers show that Canadians know who’s to be congratulated for this economic turnaround. And it ain’t you, Mr. HypocrIggy!

So they sent some body bags up to Northern Manitoba. Body bags that were a part of a “flu kit” of some sort, that included (besides the body bags) face masks, gloves, hand lotion, etc. First Nations had been screaming for hand lotion for months now, they finally got it, but all they mentioned on the news were the body bags. Body bags this, body bags that. Insulting. Whatever.

Look. The H1N1 flu is deadly. Numerous people have died over the past 6 months, including first nations. It is very prudent to send up medicine, barrier clothing and, indeed, body bags, should the person die of H1N1. The body bag is there to protect the rest of the population. It is not insulting, it is a part of the kit. Once again, the media, by focusing on the body bags and not even mentioning the rest of the kit, gave the Canadian people a deliberately false impression that the government sent body bags instead of “real h1n1 flu packages” as one commenter on the CTV website puts it.

It is not like they asked for a kit with masks and lotion, and received body bags instead. The body bags are a part of the kit. This is a pandemic-containment measure. The pandemic containment strategy goes from the most minute (hand lotion) to the most extreme (death – containment of infected deceased).

Of course, having nothing else going his way, Iggy jumped on the band wagon and blamed the government for such an insensitive act. I suppose we didn’t ship any body bags to Afghanistan either, as to not to insult the armed forces. Maybe we shouldn’t have any coroners either…

And, had we not send any body bags up there, and people had died, the government would be blamed for not caring for the First Nations. So we can never win.

Better safe than sorry, I’d say.

After years of supporting campaigns to conserve water in the City of Ottawa, the city has now run into a problem: water consumption is down so much, that the city is looking at a $7M deficit in revenues, and in return will have to increase the rates on everything (including your water bill) to make up for it.

So, first they ask us to consume less, we do what they ask, and then as a thank you, they hit us over the head with an increase on the very bill they asked us to reduce.

I think the brains at city hall are made of 100% water, as opposed to the regular 70%.

And don’t get me started on exactly WHY we should be conserving water: it’s only the most abundant–and most recycled–substance on the face of the earth.