If you’ll forgive me going all Bagehotian for a moment, in a country such as Canada, the post-election Speech from the Throne is the defining act of constitutional monarchy: the Queen or her viceroy comes to parliament to read words placed in her mouth by the Prime Minister of her newly elected government. It’s the logical endpoint of Magna Carta: the state as servant of the people. So, when you urinate all over a Throne Speech, it’s not like lobbing a pie at the Defence Minister during a war debate: You’re disdaining the very essence of the constitutional order.
But that’s all a little too fusty for a know-nothing like Brigette DePape.
Miss DePape applied to be one of the 15 young Canadians who get chosen by Black Rod (for American readers: don’t worry, it’s an ancient parliamentary title, not a porn star from the Seventies) to intern as pages as the Canadian Senate. So take a look at this picture of last week’s Throne Speech in Ottawa: The Governor-General is reading out the government’s program, and Miss DePape steps in front of him to hold up for the cameras her own ingenious substitution for representative government: A “STOP HARPER” sign. When she’s removed from the chamber, she’s ready with a press release and a publicist to book media appearances. She says Canada needs its own “Arab Spring”.
What, you mean with virginity tests for female protesters?
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Unfortunately our universities are chalk full of the likes of this naive young woman.
Well some are far worse than others. The University of Zero is a disgusting piece of work (Allan Rock). If I were an employer looking to hire on a university grad, I would summarily shred any resumes from graduates of that kindergarten. It just isn’t worth the risk.
That university still produces some outstanding graduates in the sciences. The problem is all the courses that are really nothing more than Progressive propaganda. And the kids and their parents are paying for that junk.
Potato, the University of Zero may well produce some decent graduates but it produces far more than its fair share of crackpots. Not worth taking the risk. Perhaps if the students attending that kindergarten along with the alumni were to put heat on the administration to clean up their act, they might be taken seriously.