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Not-so-Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew is showing all the telltale signs of being a neoSeussian.
Like the characters in Seuss books neoSeussians talk a lot of nonsense.
But unlike the characters in Seuss books, in the end, neoSeussians make absolutely no sense at all.
For example, take Mr. Pettigrew's statements on making money off of Ballistic Missile Defense to Anthony Not-So-Saintly Germain on the CBC's 'The House' this morning, which are now summarized on the Mothercorp's News site:
Pettigrew says having the government join the program would have been inconsistent with Canada's defence priorities, and U.S. officials have given no assurances it wouldn't lead to placing weapons in space.
But Pettigrew..... sees no contradiction with Canadian companies bidding on contracts to build that same system.
"I do not believe that we should control Canadian business. I would be very pleased if Canadian busines can contribute to the defence systems of the United States," says Pettigrew.
And using this logic it would be fine to build and sell whatever we want (insert killing machine here) to whomever we want (insert nefarious regime here).
Perhaps it's time for Mr. Pettigrew to pay a visit to Cindy Loo-Who to get his hypocrisy-generator re-jigged.
And more importantly, perhaps it's time for Canadians who do not support state-sanctioned snuff industries to draw a line in the sand and stop buying stuff from anybody/thing that has a piece of the companies that are building and exporting said killing machines.
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Update: Any perceived similarities between neoSeussians and neoStraussians are entirely intentional.
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