You have to love how well politicians lie, to make a sellout seem a good thing. Then there is the Politician that tells you how great it is to share such an open border, and how good of a friend you are, while at the same time killing tourism in your country, and putting the blame for their own incompetence onto your shoulders.

Hats off to both Conservative Cannon, our Foreign Affairs dufus, and Hilary Rodham Clinton, the US poster model for failed political hacks, for their stellar performance in announcing that the Great Lakes Water Treaty of 1909 will be renegotiated, as merely a way to update how we preserve the environment. 

“We have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technologies and, unfortunately, new threats,” Clinton said.

“The rivers, the lakes, the streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation, they belong to all of us,” she said at celebrations overlooking the falls.

“The friendship between Canada and the United States is a model for the world,” said Cannon. ( CBC News )

Funny how Clinton makes that sly remark, about it not belonging to anyone, course the fact that it is her country who pollutes the lakes faster than one can say ‘defeated candidate’, and is the one who thinks we are a third world country,  doesn’t come into play, now does it?

After all it is her Government that is trying to steal the Northern Waters of Canada so they can legally send their warships through the passages, and their oil tankers, without meeting our tougher restrictions on pollution. Mind you, our lovely fair haired boy, Stevie, is doing everything he can, to reduce those restrictions, those protective services. After all, he’d like nothing better than to be the Governor of the 51st USA State.

And you have to love how they talk about free exchange of goods, through NAFTA and the cross border shopping, while it it is the USA who constantly tries to deny Canadian Industry a role in the US Market. Or how their new regulations, requiring anyone over 16 to have a passport in order to enter their land of plenty.

And our eager and willing stupe, Cannon, plays right into it, extolling the virtues of a country that has led the world to economic ruin, because of its greed. Course it is his same boss, that is allowing Mining Companies to dump toxic waste into our streams, so they can make huge profits. And too, in all fairness, so that Canada will be just like the United States, a dumping ground for polluters. After all, wouldn’t be fair to have pristeen lakes, clear and clean water, when our gentle giant of a neighbour has nothing but sludge and ooze in its lakes & rivers, from the same practice of dumping and pollution.

Now would it?

One week after meeting with Obama, Cannon is off to Washington to discuss our role in Afghanistan. They continue to spew how we are not negotiating anything, & that our combat troops will be home in 2011.  While that meeting takes place, Mr. Harer is off to New York, where he is going to meet with the UN Secretary General, and might discuss the kidnapping of our Envoy.  He is also going to meet with Financial Leaders in the place that started this entire world economic mess.

Wonder what he is going to say?

A Canadian official, citing security concerns, declined to say whether the recent abduction in Niger of Robert Fowler, a Canadian who is now a UN special envoy, would also be discussed.

Harper has also scheduled a round-table meeting with business leaders. The global financial crisis is likely to be the top item there. ( source - CBC News )

In typical Harper fashion, there are no details given. One assumes he will discuss the kidnapped Envoy, one assumes he will discuss the Global melt down created by these business elite.  Funny, but you know, this comes from a man who promised transparent government, who has done everything possible, to hide what he is doing.

Cannon gets to meet with the she devil of American Politics, Hilary Rodham Clinton, and in any tug of war, you know Cannon is a light weight compared to good old Hilary. A true back room gal, it is certain that Mr. Cannon will be outclassed, but then, who can’t outclass a Harper Team Player?

While the talk goes on, attention will be diverted to our stone faced Prime Minister who will be talking up a storm, after all he didn’t have much to say when Obama was here, so maybe this time he will?  Odds are he won’t, but then he never seems to. He just wallows from one spot to another, and keeps it all a big secret.

I wonder at times, what is going to happen to this country. We had Trudeau who could out class most on the International stage, and now we have Ignatieff, Layton, May, and Harper. And the economic news isn’t good, isn’t improving, and we all look to the new American President for saving, but should we?

Some will whine about Harper, and who knows, maybe he’ll wake up and actually represent us, but I doubt it. The meeting in Washington will eventually lead to our committment in Afghanistan changing, and the meeting in New York will simply throw more of our taxpayer money into the hands of Big Business.