Music to My Ears

I grieved when we lost Stephane Dion as Liberal leader because at the time he alone had the understanding that there is a huge new economy available to us in going green. Then along came the dinosaur who didn't believe in science, ergo research and development, and we lost ten years when we could have established Canada as a leader in green technology. Now, however, we have that chance again and Trudeau has grasped the opportunity with both hands. So what do our illustrious reporters do - they ask the incredibly stupid question - when will you have a plan? He answers with the obvious that they should know already: part of the plan was in our election platform, part will be coming from the premiers and the cities - we are meeting in 90 days, and we are looking at green rapid transit technology and there are some interesting geothermal innovations that we are looking at. So what does each noodle head reporter ask: the same question over and over - missing the opportunity to ask - what will it take to get our R&D back up to speed, do you have any areas of green technology in mind where Canada is in the lead, which cities do you think are most ready to engage with green technology on a city-wide scale, etc. etc. There was a brief moment after the election when the press was engaged and now they are back to muck-raking. They attacked Trudeau for planning to bring refugees in too soon - then when he delayed it - two whole months!! - they attacked him for "breaking a promise" - now that we can all see that they have been busting their asses to fulfill the promise - with the revealing of a centralized refugee centre in Jordan - there is profound silence - way to go guys - I'm going to get my news somewhere else - somewhere thoughtful and constructive. But you are doing all of us a favour - because you are helping once again to get people to underestimate Trudeau - and that will just give him more space to do great things. While you're going on and one about broken promises and ballooning deficits he will be leading us and others into the 21st century.