My god are we Canadians a stupid bunch. Thankfully we are blessed with an abundance of natural resources and next door to the worlds larges economic powerhouse for trade. We couldn't cut it as a nation without those things to the same extent we do.
Watching the news and seeing this story play out is embarrassing for the media and for everybody who's ultra concerned with why people at a public event are taking photos with people wearing a potentially offensive shirt. News flash, plenty of people have stupid shirts and clothing styles, are we suppose to be issuing trigger warnings for all the softies here? Do we want our political leaders having to now send out press releases that "insert leader does not agree with this person's cause"
In other countries, the media tries to do the job of what's going on with the money, who's benefiting? Where's the corruption? What's happening with the government? You know, holding people to account about the things that really matter?
Instead people are losing their minds about some shirt on some guy next to a Premier and a federal party leader. This is politics I guess. That's the story that leads headlines.
I guess the story that Calgary and Alberta used to be governed by 2 rumored gay men at the same time probably doesn't attract as much attention I guess.
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