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Finally Mac Harb has resigned.  After bilking the Canadian taxpayer for hundreds of thousands, he has called it quits.  About time.  The same should go for Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau. 

How Wallin could stand there in front of a microphone and accuse Deloitte Touche of being out-of-line is beyond me.  She used to be a reporter, didn't she?  Or was she just a "hostess" on Canada AM?  She claimed it was a witch hunt.  Sorry Pam, you blew it.  You should simply have had the grace to admit your errors, congratulate the Senate and Deloitte and pay the money back. 

I had great hopes for Patrick Brazeau when he was elected head of off-reserve natives a few years ago.  He was articulate and had harsh words for on-reserve chiefs who were not doing their people any good.  But he blew it.  Assaulting and allegedly raping his girlfriend?  Not good moves.

Mike Duffy?  Another former journalist who would be all over the story in which he is embroiled.  I guess these people start to believe their own press and suffer from 'Stockholm Syndrome'. 

Here's another beaute:  Pauline Marois, premier of Quebec, is putting through a bill which will make it illegal for anyone employed in a public institution to wear any type of religious symbol or dress.  Done, I am convinced, to prevent Muslims from wearing hijabs or burkas, she has had to include Christian (and presumably Jewish) symbols as well, but she has lost sight of one crucial point.  It was the Catholic Church that preserved and nurtured the French language, culture and values in Quebec -- something which the British allowed after their victory on the Plains of Abraham.  Without this concession, Quebeckers would be speaking English. 

To prevent religious symbols now is not only illogical, it is brazenly hypocritical.  Pauline, give your head a shake.  Twenty thousand Quebeckers fled the province last year and 85% headed for Alberta.  Guess what?  Another few thousand will flock off after this.