Priorities

In a post earlier today, I mentioned that the politicians in Ottawa had thousands of more important things to spend their time on than tweaking electoral laws.

This is not one of them.

A parliamentary committee is going to review whether Shane Doan should remain Captain of Team Canada's hockey team because two years ago he was accused of saying something mean about French-Canadians. It was an accusation that was not substantiated and Doan was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing by the NHL.

Oh yes, this is serious. In a way it's funny how hockey is so important in this country that all the political parties supported the Bloc motion to have Hockey Canada explain it's choice to a parliamentary committee.

On the other hand, the Bloc says nasty things about all non French-Canadians every day and we don't demand that they step out of the country - on the contrary, we try our darnedest to keep them in.

The bottom line is that the government helps to fund Sports Canada which in turn puts money towards Hockey Canada - and the Feds are threatening to cut off that funding. Gilles Duceppe, the Bloc leader, said that "It's taxpayers' money, so they will have to have some answers". True, except that Gilles seems to be the only one hot under the collar about it and for him to dare use me and my fellow non-Quebeckers as pawns in his rhetoric kind of disgusts me. He doesn't care at all about anything or anyone outside of Quebec and these little subliminal phrases won't make me forget that.

I think Gilles is still just pissy because back in December 2005 everyone rejected his call to have a separate hockey team representing Quebec during the Olympics instead of having one team from Canada and he's still throwing tantrums trying to get his way.

Guess after saying that I'm now on the Team Canada blacklist eh?