People in glass houses...

I could not help but be struck by the supreme irony of our beloved PM standing up at the UN this past week and lecturing the rest of the world on the futility of "lofty rhetoric" being unmatched by concrete actions. This from the man who has promised to "Fix health care for a generation" (or, well, to throw a big pile of cash at it and hope that no one really notices the complete absence of anything resembling an actual "fix" or reform), and to "end the politics of cronyism (er, maybe after he appoints all of his leadership team to the senate? But these are all highly qualified people! They just happen to also be prominent Liberals who just happened to have been working on his unending leadership campaign for the last 10 years - they can't really be classified as "cronies" can they?

Yeah, Martin is the one to stand up and lecture all those other bad world leaders.

Perhaps the video they showed on the news of Martin practising his speech (showing how polite Canadians are by doing this while another speaker was adressing the assembly) was actually him honing his ability to keep a straight face while he read off those lines...