Climate Barbie goes off-script

I see where Environment Minister Catherine McKenna had herself a “my-face-is-red” moment when one of her minions inadvertently sent out a tweet praising Syria for joining the Paris climate accord.

Can’t be having any of that now, can we! We must never forget that the eye doctor from Damascus is a blood-drenched monster who delights in gassing his own people, especially children! And suddenly we’ve got our Environment Minister high-fiving him for joining the fight against green-house gasses?

Well, she’s obviously WAY off the script there, and it didn’t take the men behind the curtain long to yank her leash. She’s realized the error of her ways and is back on track.

The Syria script has always been a little dodgy to my way of thinking. On the one hand, we’re constantly told Assad is unfit to inhabit this planet etc, and on the other hand the Canadian security establishment used to outsource their torture operations to the Assad regime. We don’t do that stuff ourselves of course, but we’re not above sending a few recalcitrant towel-heads over there to get their just desserts.

The ones who lived to tell the tale are subsequently made multi-millionaires by our guilt-ridden government. The ones who didn’t, and there had to be more than a few, we never hear about.

And another dodgy aspect to the Syria script; let’s assume for a moment that Assad is every bit the butcher we’re constantly told he is. Then why do we arrest idealistic young Canadians on their way to Syria to join the fight against him? How does that make any sense?

Given how famous Canadians are (at least in Canada) for “punching above our weight,” these idealistic young Canadians could have made all the difference.  Assad might very well be inhabiting the dustbin of history by now had we let them go. But no, we charged them with terror offences and locked them up, and Assad has all but won the war.

Were we yet again secretly in cahoots with Assad?

These are secrets known only to the script-writers.