Daily Archives: 25 March 2007
The Center Cannot Hold
Now here‘s the antidote to the last post’s optimism. Quebec has an election tomorrow, and it’s a reeeeaaaaaallly interesting one. That’s because there is a third, conservative-ish(!), party running that came literally out of nowhere. It looks likely to win as much as 25% of the available seats, which is pretty impressive for a newcomer. Actually, this sort of thing isn’t all that unusual in Quebec. Pretty much once every 25-30 years politics in Quebec lurch. The old parties collapse, and at least one new one comes to take the place of at least one old one. But it’s a
Useless Stat
Today’s completely useless statistic comes from Canada, where an Angus Reid poll has established that 77% (almost 4 in 5!) of Canadians believe in global warming. So? That doesn’t make it real. In fact, if it turns out not to be real, is Angus Reid going to revise their headline to say “Almost 4 in 5 Canadians Duped by Environmental Fraud?” Whether or not global warming is happening has exactly nothing to do with whether or not Canadians think it is happening. And frankly, the average citizen of any country (especially one with as crappy an education system as Canada’s)
