DAMMIT, Canada!

[Safe Bet's Amy]

The Canadian Minister of Health is a doctor.

The Canadian Minister of Transport is an astronaut.

The Canadian Minister of National Defense is a Sikh Veteran.

The Canadian Minister of Youth is under the age of 50.

(Which is okay, because he also has a second job... as Prime Minister!)

The Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food is a former farmer.

The Canadian Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness was a Scout.

The Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science & Economic Dev. was a financial analyst.

The Canadian Minister of Finance is a successful businessman.

The Canadian Minister of Justice was a crown prosecutor and is a First Nations leader.

The Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and Canadian Coastguard is Inuit.

The Canadian Minister of Science is a medical geographer with a PhD.

There are scientists in the cabinet, and it is made up of 50% women.

The Minister of Sport, and Persons with Disabilities is a visually impaired Paralympian.

We get it, already!  

You have the government we WISH we had!

We are embarrassed enough about ours...

Now stop rubbing it in!!!!

[Ron Powell]

AMEN!!!

[koshersalaami]

Did I really inspire a post of yours as something other than an angry reaction to something I said?

That might be a first. 

[Safe Bet's Amy]

I hope you don't pull a muscle trying to pat yourself on the back, KS...  LOL

I didn't see your comment until AFTER I finished this post...  but if it makes you feel better about yourself, you just keep on believing that you did, m'kay?

[koshersalaami]

i use a back scratcher. 

[Rodney Roe]

When I asked my surgical oncologist if he was Canadian he asked, "Why, because I'm polite and well groomed?" As it turned out he is married to a Canadian and did part of his training in Toronto. 

If it wasn't so freaking cold there...

[Safe Bet's Amy]

[Jonathan Wolfman]

@Amy    uhmhmm

[Boanerges]

A couple of those cabinet ministers have rather stepped in it lately, but overall he made some fine choices. As for the ratio of men/women, when he announced the appointments, someone asked why so many women and he said, "Because it's 2015" -- leaving off the obligatory (well, obligatory for me), "... not 1915, and you're a fecking eejit for even asking the question."

Believe it or not, he'll be the oldest of the three main party leaders here going into the 2019 election. At age 70, I'm loving it. 'Bout time us calcified boomers got the heave-ho.