B's meaning of the term

That might as well have been a speech from the other "throne", he said as we watched Mary Simon butcher both official languages while droning out Trudeau's meaningless re-hash of all the other hollow speeches from the other thrones he's trotted out as "policy".  

What struck and shocked me was that once again, Simon seems to be unaware that Canada has two official languages, French and English; Inuktitut is not one of them.  As for her French, in spite of necessarily having been coached about how to read and pronounce the French parts of the speech, she was totally unable to make herself understood -- certainly neither to this fluent speaker, nor also obviously to the poor guy whose job it was to simultaneously translate it.  

Her use of Inuktitut was inexcusable.  I don't care that that is her mother tongue, it is not one of this country's official languages and I doubt many people in Nunavut were tuned it to watch.  So why did she use it?  Obviously, some sort of Trudeau-esque stunt to show people she was bilingual, just not in our other official language.  Was it only I who noticed that the speaker's chair in which she sat had "E11R" emblazoned on the top of it?  Yep, Mary, you represent Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth -- Canada's Head of State.  This was why I was shocked -- but not surprised -- that all the portraits of Elizabeth II had been removed from Rideau Hall (See,"Who picked the Art", Oct. 26, 2021) 

 Puts me in mind of the lashing given Air Canada's president by always-offended Quebeckers.  Even Freeland piled on by  outrageously sending the guy an official letter of reprimand and an admonishment to learn French.  Huh?  Last time I checked, Air Canada is no longer owned by the federal government.  It is now independently-owned and answers only to shareholders.  Freeland had absolutely no business sending that letter, but Freeland being Freeland, there is no such thing as something that is not her business.  Read this morning that some female journalist is writing a puff piece book about her; if that isn't a clue that Freeland will be running to replace Trudeau, I don't know what is?

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A word about electric cars.  They run exclusively on lithium batteries and three impoverished countries in South America have the largest supplies of lithium.  Guess who owns 51% of the world's supply?  China.  Guess how China processes lithium?  In coal plants -- one of which is built every week in that country.  And guess what lithium mining is doing to the third-world countries that supply the product?  Ruining them and the people who live there.  But, hey, who cares?!  We're saving the planet!

So, while some of you are clapping yourselves on the backs about buying electric cars, the fossil fuels required to build them are enormous -- totally negating the supposed value and superiority of electric cars.  

Here's Mary.....

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