This is inhuman. The Hair has rushed the hairdresser to Beijing and back so that he can be at the Cenotaph in Ottawa today. Is the hairdresser getting hardship pay for this? She also needs to do an extra special job on the Hair’s make-up to hide his age lines and the bags under his eyes.
But, we have to face facts. It is getting harder and harder to make the Hair look good. He is packing on quite a gut with all the state dinners he attends. He has been developing serious worry lines about next year’s election.
The Hair is back in Ottawa briefly because the television networks are promising him millions of Canadian viewers for the National War Memorial program today. He wants to look his best. There is even a Royal in attendance to add something. The size of the audience is because of the killing of Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the Confederation Square cenotaph less than two weeks ago. Canadians are understandably upset about this event and the previous killing of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Does anyone understand how much the Hair shares the blame?
It does not even seem proper that the Hair should be at the memorial service in Ottawa. He could have stayed in Beijing for the beginning of the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference. Monuments such as the National War Memorial are to honour our dead in war not the people who sent them in harms’ way. This event is not about the Hair.
The Hair seems more interested in making war. The war memorial is about those people who make peace.
The Hair could have stayed in Beijing and done some serious talking about the Canadian missionaries who have been arrested and held in prison without any charges other than for serving coffee with cream, sugar and Christ. He said he brought it up with the Chinese officials but he does not let it interfere with the trade deals and new financial arrangements he brags about. The Chinese leaders must marvel at the Hair’s hypocrisy.
And you really have to wonder at this whirlwind flying to and from Beijing so that he can get back to look important at the APEC meeting that is going on in Beijing without him. He will then be going on to the G-20 meeting that will follow in Australia.
But who among us thinks of the poor hairdresser? She is becoming a million-mile flier. If she was also a pilot, she could really earn her keep.
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Copyright 2014 © Peter Lowry
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