It was the picture of Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown on an elephant with one of his Ontario Conservative caucus mates that has already won picture of the year for us. When you think of how many times Brown has visited India on the Canadian taxpayers’ money, you would think the people of the sub-continent would have learned that he is about as useful as teats on a sacred Brahmin bull.
But the Indians laid out the red carpet for Mr. Brown anyway. It is not as though he is good looking. He hardly has much social repartee. He does not have much appeal to women. He is no longer with the federal Conservatives and they are out of power anyway. He has no trade deals to make. It must be that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi figures that a guy this persistent must have something going for him. And for all they know, he might be there as an advance man for Premier Kathleen Wynne. (We hear she will be in India later this month.)
She had better come soon if she wants to also meet Prime Minister Modi. When you consider that the extremist Indian Prime Minister has less charm than Stephen Harper, he might not have a long time left in office.
But Brown is reported to have brought along four of his fellow Tory caucus members so that they could come home and tell others how royally Brown is treated in India. For a minor opposition Member of the Ontario Legislature to be welcomed in the offices of the Prime Minister in the largest democracy in the world must have come as something of a surprise. After all, how creepy can it be for Prime Minister Modi of India and Patrick Brown Ontario MPP to be kindred spirits?
They are both manipulative politicians. They play the rules to their advantage. Their real agendas are those of extremists. They scratch each other’s ego and back.
Where did you think Brown got the idea of using the more than 100,000 immigrants from India to swamp the membership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party? Though nobody seems to care where he got the money to pay their memberships.
But you have to feel sorry for Brown’s caucus members who went with him to India. Being jerked around on a sofa atop an elephant’s back is enough to make a hardened sailor throw up.
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