The [Not So] Great Canadian Environmental Debate!

I'm generally not much of a CBC fan because of the extreme left-wing bias in most of their programming by I frequently listen to one radio show called The House. In the most recent program, there was a ridiculous display of one upmanship displayed by all the guests. It prompted me to send the host, Kathleen Petty, this letter:

I love your show and listened with great interest to your February 3rd discussion about the environment with members of the Conservative, Liberal, and NDP parties. If that's the best that our three major parties have to offer then God ... errr may Mother Nature help us!

I couldn't stop thinking throughout that the interview was not a whole lot different than the venerable TV show, The Dating Game. (Feel free to listen to the theme music while reading the rest of my e-mail!) The 3 bachelors were desperately trying to win the heart & mind of Miss Canada (us voters).

Mr. Conservative is her latest beau. She's been dating him for the past year, is generally content but ... her old boyfriend, Mr. Liberal, who she's been involved with many years in the past, is now actively pursuing her again, after having to sort out some financial issues with the police. He's definitely the flashiest of all, but she hasn't decided whether she can trust him again. The third bachelor, Mr. NDP, seems like a nice guy but she thinks he's too much of an idealistic geek to ever get seriously involved with. This doesn't stop him from endlessly trying to win her heart though.

Miss Canada has an American uncle named Al Gore. Last year she saw a movie he made about a pending worldwide environmental crisis. Since then she keeps hearing the word "Kyoto" every time she turns on the TV, listens to the radio, or reads the newspaper. She doesn't really know what it means but figures it must be important if so many people are always talking about it. When she was dating Mr. Liberal she remembers him signing some document on her behalf with that "K" word on it, but it certainly didn't make her change her lifestyle! He was having too much fun with her to ever mention

All of this recent environmental talk has perked her interest so much that she confided to her girlfriends (the political pollsters) that the man in her life better be darned concerned about it too ... even if she isn't too clear on the details of what "it" is. As might be expected, the girlfriends let this slip to the 3 bachelors. They're now all pumping their chests, trying to outdo the others, to prove to Miss Canada that they are the greenest of all and thus deserve her affection!

Sadly, none of these fellows realize that the object of their affection was terribly spoiled as a child and grew up in a very privileged environment. Her family stems from proud and noble roots, but it is unclear to all her cousins, watching her from afar, whether she can give up her two cars, her fabulous condo, and her regular winter jaunts down to warmer climes. At this point she doesn't even know that she has to change anything in her own life, but rather is just relying on her boyfriend to ensure that businesses do everything. To varying degrees, the 3 bachelors have convinced themselves that she is prepared to make some radical changes. Time will tell, but relationship counseling seems like a foregone conclusion! If so, her boyfriend can pick up the tab for that too.