Ok, so I’ve been working almost feverishly on my new webproject this last week, and as you may have guessed by the links menu on the left, it will involve, well, me. That being said, it’s time to wrap up this little stroll down forgettable-memory lane.
Name: Bev Oda
Portfolio: Heritage
Grade: F
If you had asked me at the start of the year who the least competent Minister would be for 2006, I would not have thought to mention this woman. Yet here we are. As a visible-minority woman, Mrs. Oda had the sort public-currency with which to accomplish substantive changes. Nonetheless, here at year’s end all she has really done presided over the dismantling of the Status of Woman program. A transparent, last-minute funding announcement for a bunch of Ottawa-area Museums counts against her in fact, when considered against her broader cuts to projects outside of the capital region.
Name: Peter McKay
Portfolio: International Affairs
Grade: F
It’s scary to think that there was a time I said to myself (and others) that I could see myself voting for this man. Since then he has sold out his own party (breaking his word in the process), kow-towed to Stephen Harper in a transparent attempt to move up the latter, and shown the parliamentary class of a drunk rugby-enthousiast. What is really scary, is that in the past year in which Canada has been faced with arguably it’s greatest international challenges since the 1950’s, he has accomplished almost nothing, with the exception of slandering his ex-girlfriend and badly mishandling the fallout. Should we expect more from a senior cabinet minister with leadership ambitions? Certainly. The fact that he has to “ask” for a greater role in the Mideast peace process speaks both to his impotence and the low regard in which his party seems to hold him. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
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