Thursday, April 23, 2009

Oh, to be this smug

For my fellow Canadian readers, check out this 22 minutes spoof of our-almost-definitely-next-prime-minister.
For the rest, you may have heard of Michael Ignatieff. An academic, he lived in the U.S. forever and then swooped back into his home country (that would be Canada) when the possibility of becoming the leader of a major party (that would be the Liberals) became available a couple of years ago. Sadly for Iggy, a different professor - the hapless but sincere Stephane Dion - surprised everyone by winning that Liberal leadership race. Then, happily for Iggy, Dion essentially promoted a policy that would tax carbon emissions in the following elections, and despite Canadian citizens' posturing that they wanted to pay attention to the environment, they certainly didn't want to do it at the expense of money, so the Liberals crashed and burned. End result, Iggy was handed the Liberal leadership on a silver platter following the election. Now, with the governing Conservative party waning in popularity, it's only a matter of time before Iggy brings down parliament and starts the next election cycle, which he will almost definitely win (whew! and you Americans thought your system was frustrating and demotivating).
My brother-in-law, K, showed us this hilarious Ignatieff impersonation from This Hour Has 22 Minutes (basically the closest thing Canada has to the Daily Show). It's frighteningly spot on.

3 comments:

xup said...

Well, he's a pretty smart cookie and probably he can't do much worse than anybody else has done so far and he isn't Harper. I'm wiling to give him a shot

noha said...

Oh XUP, he's definitely a very very smart cookie. and you're right about not being able to do worse, but I guess I just wanted him to be able to do a lot better and I don't think we're gonna get that either...

xup said...

The problem with politicians is that they're politicians. There is something fundamentally wrong with someone who choses to be a politician leading the country. What we need is Jimmy Stewart