Fishing for Trouble

If there is one topic I don't know a lot about it's politics......and math...........and women...........and nuclear fission, but I know a shady situation when I see one, and a lot of times politicians are shadier then an elm tree on a hot sunny day. I know the life of a politician isn't always easy, you have this person complaining, that person complaining, having to rob Peter to give to Paul and constantly being under a microscope. The fact that they live under that giant microscope should be enough to make them stop doing dumb things, or at least hide them better. I know the urges are there, after months of campaigning and begging for money like a homeless person outside a Tim Horton's, you finally won, you get control, and the first days in office your giddier then a female when an Adele song comes on the radio, and nothing can stop you only yourself.

Introducing Peter MacKay, Canada's national minister of defence. Did you know that he was once voted Canada's sexiest Member of Parliament from 1999-2007 and again in 2009? Which would be impressive, only have you seen some of the Canadian members of parliament, most of the Parliament members have more rolls then a bakery. Mr. MacKay enjoys two things, fishing and getting out of places fast, so it would make only perfect sense that on a fishing trip last year in Gander he called a search and rescue mission helicopter to come pick him up. Now it's understandable that when somebody is in Gander they want to get out of there as fast as possible, but this seems to be a bit extravagant to me. Newfoundland and Labrador only has 3 search and rescue helicopters, and one of them is remote controlled, so it could have been bad if there had been a real emergency.

Now if you know anything about Peter MacKay's political history, you know he has no trouble riding things he shouldn't *cough*Belinda Stronach* just because he can so it's no surprise that he should use taxpayers money to get from point A to point B. The department of defense in all their wisdom retorted that Peter McKay was just volunteering to be in a training run of the search and rescue mission, which is all well and good only for the exercise was scheduled by his own department and I don't think training exercises work IF THEY KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. Their story had more holes in then this blog has sentence fragments. Maybe other ministers could follow his lead, the minister of Finance could have banks give him money just to see how they sort out transactions. Perhaps the minister of Fisheries could give fishermen less days to fish as an exercise to see how they can eke out a living.....oh wait that happened already.

As I mentioned before, if there had been a real emergency it could have been a sticky situation. Imagine if a boat was stranded at sea, they put in an SOS call but they are told to hang tight cause the minister of defense caught a beaut of a salmon and it has to keep. Apparently it costs around $32, 232 to operate on a Cormorant helicopter for one hour, which is roughly what takes these days to fill up an SUV on gas or buy one concert ticket at Mile One stadium. So the next time your out fishing, and you need to get home whether you left the stove on and your wife is not the kitchen where she should be to turn it off, or your being attacked by a rampant coyote, call the search and rescue team, just hope they don't send the remote control one.