Further proof that the weather is responsible for madness
Sometimes we wish too fervently for the return of warm weather. With all the great memories we build, involving youth and beaches and sun, we forget that our brains are not wired correctly for such things. As proof, I offer up our local politicians.
Today, the thermometer sensor detected that the ambient temperature had risen to levels never before recorded for this date. We reached 31 C sometime before the end of the afternoon, in the shade. About the same time, our newly elected provincial parliament decided to become mad dogs (sorry, canines; you deserve better). We’ve barely got the gang seated in individual chairs and they’re already posturing that it would be an auspicious period to defeat the minority governing party and send us scurrying back to the polls. I can only assume that they are ‘tetched in the head by the heat.
All this over a proposed budget that would finally permit a slackening of the oppressive taxation. In return, we get some oppressive campaigning in oppressive heat. We’re not there yet, but the province is also without a lieutenant-governor, so all bets on normal behaviour are off. We have a gang of heat-addled wannabees buzzing madly around in all directions.
Maybe it will be cooler outside by Monday, and the calm of last week (without the snowfall) will return. If not, this is projecting to be one annus horribilis in Quebec politics.
Meanwhile, the polls are ready for Monday on the Island. Winner takes all. Reading the various blogs, it looks like the TV coverage will be worth looking into. Newsworld, will you be on call? If not, I’ll depend on the excellent work done by Peter Rukavina and others over at Elections PEI.
