What was she doing there?

I'm talking about Carney's wife, Diana, standing with him as he greeted G7 heads of government.  It's not like they were arriving with their wives so she had to be there.  They arrived alone, but there was "the wife" shaking hands with world "leaders" as if she were important.  Why!  This sh-t sets women back decades.  Please stop it!  She wasn't elected, we don't care what she thinks about anything.  Does he get consistently bad advice, or does he just ignore it and do what he likes?

As I said, she looks like his mother, "On a good day," quipped a good friend of mine.

There was another offbeat receiving line at the Calgary airport when they all arrived.  We had:  Danielle Smith, Jyoti Gondek, Anita Anand (huh?) and the governor general herself and her husband.  What the f-ck were they doing on the tarmac?  This was a meeting of elected officials -- not Royalty.  But then Mary and Whit love to crash every party going.  They even hosted a dinner.  Why?  No clue!

Of course, the chiefs were also there because no matter where you step in this country, you're on some tribe's traditional land.  Even hockey broadcasts acknowledge it for every game.  Gawd!

The son-in-law of a friend of mine is in charge of all political and state banquets for the federal government and he was there running that show.  Frankly, I think that must have been the main attraction -- all the wonderful food and wine he served -- 'cause it certainly couldn't have been the business they were discussing and world problems they were solving.  'Cause they weren't.

Speaking of problems, why was Zelensky there?  Apparently, Carney in a moment of lunacy, committed another few billion to him.  Please Gawd, help us.

Nothing came of the whole, expensive mess.  Nothing.  Oh ya, Carney and Trump agreed to agree on a trade deal within 30 days, but we all know that's not going to stick because Trump changes his mind every five minutes.  The meaningless communiqué had been written before anyone had even arrived, so it was all an expensive boondoggle signifying nothing.  

WTF?  I think we need to do away with the G7 -- especially as Trump found it so all-important he actually bailed after fewer than 24 hours in Kananaskis.  Gone, poofed, disappeared!  The excuse was the Iran mess, but he could have sorted that from Air Force One, which is a flying White House equipped with everything a president needs to deal with anything anywhere -- including nuclear war.  But he split.  Draw your own conclusions.

Last Saturday we were trying to leave Calgary for Cochrane, but were held up for 15 minutes while a cavalcade of motorcycles and limos raced along the highway on their way to Kananaskis.  I counted them, there were 16 motorcycles preceding the blacked-out cars.  16!  What could 16 motorcycles do to save anyone in a limo trailing far behind??  Nothing.  It was all a joke.

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A word about something called the 'Horatio Alger Association of Canada'.  Full page ad in 'The Globe and Mail' the other day promoting it, but I had no clue what it was?  Looked it up, it's a group of famous people who hand out scholarship money.  Who are some of the members?

• Michael Bublé 
• Wayne Gretzky
• David Johnston
• Brian Mulroney -- even though he's actually dead?!
• Jim Pattison
• Ryan Reynolds
• Gerry Schwartz
• Isadore Sharp, and
• Jim Treliving....

...among others.

Weird.  Seems like a vanity project for a bunch of celebrities.