Meet your new cabinet!

[Posteritatis]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/harper_conservatives/cabinet.html

The Ceeb runs down the new Cabinet.

Stockwell Day as minister of public safety? What's that going to mean, sharp rusty tetanus-laced corners for all?

Overall, I'm undecided on these guys; some of them seem okay, some of them make me want to burst into flame. (MacKay getting foreign affairs kinda horrifies me; yeah, have our diplomatic face be the guy whose SO dumped him to vote for the other side's legislation..)

I'm not that familiar with many of them though; I know some local figures and a couple big names, but that's it. Anybody else know much about the other guys?

[Telly Savalas]

1. Ski-doo accidents will plummet under Day's watchful eye

[daleo]

2. Stockwell Day as minister of public safety

It sounds like something out of "The Handmaid's Tale".

Emerson as Minister of International Trade speaks for itself - this is a man who betrayed his constituents in a mere 14 days, probably less.

Michael Fortier, an unelected senator also speaks for itself, after Harper's talk of democratic reform. Harper had elected Quebec MPs to choose from.

Three Harris government re-treads speaks for itself.

Chuck Stahl - I feel sorry for him having inoperable lung cancer, but I can't say it seems like a wise choice to put someone who has such a serious health problem in a high stress role like cabinet minister.

Judging from the people he left out, though, he seems to be going more corporate than social conservative (Stockwell Day excepted). That may cause him grief soon enough.

[HEyHEY]

3. Day gets a joke position

Being a useless tit and all.

[V. Kid]

5. Someone said he looks like Tin-Tin, that's like a talent.

[V. Kid]

4. Here are my favourites...

As someone with the same posting name as the minister said on Babble, "Stockwell Day in charge of CSIS, horray!"

Vic Toews, Jim Flahrety, Tony Clement, moderate, moderate, moderate, moderate, moderate do-do-do, da-da-da-do, yeah.

Oh two ministers who already have ethical concerns Bev Oda and Greg Thompson. Bev Oda apparently had the same problem as Sam Bulte, only diff was that she wasn't important like Bulte who was the former Chair of the committee responsible for well here's a link:

http://www.blogscanada.ca/egroup/CommentView.aspx?guid=4da5c7cd-6e50-4641-83e3-a00894473719

And then, Greg Thompson, ooh, a former Defence Industry lobbyist? Why, shouldn't the ethical concerns start a little bit later guys? I mean really, I know, I know, you want to get your feet up and not freak out the civil service by being too diffrent from the Liberals, but you gotta settle into the job and let your scandals and your feelings of being "entitled to entitlements", work there way into things!

Gordon O'Connor-- Defence

A former army Brigadier General and a former military lobbyist, O'Connor reportedly desires and expects to be Canada's next Defence Minister. PoliticsWatch thinks this is likely and could be a good fit.

Why, no problem with that at all!

http://www.politicswatch.com/cabinet-jan10-2006.html

Oh, and I'm sure glad Rona Ambrose is Enviroment minister, her continious statements on the enviroment, and how it's nice will be really swell. She's sure proven her previous abilities with regards to protecting the enviroment, really well.

And it's nice that Emerson was elected as a Liberal like two weeks ago, then decided in the normally Conservative stronghold of Vancouver-Kingsway, that just didn't see the light, to set things straight and return to the Conservative family. Something us residents to approve of. And of course Michel Fortier, joking with Don Newman about what Montreal riding he'll carpetbag into, is just swell. Cause surely, as he said on the show, he can't run in Mount Royal, even though that's where he lives. He has to make a search, for a suitible place to run.