Most of us, when we are somewhere around eight years of age, for a club. Complete with clubhouse, and secret signs and lists. Don’t forget the lists. The “enemy” list, above all. Turns out that the PMO (Harper’s playhouse) hasn’t. The media happened to come across one of the briefing binders prepared for new members of the club/cabinet, wherein you can find that someone asked staff to include a list of “friend and enemy stakeholders”. Make what you will of that one. Oh, and failure to play along with the rules would see the staff member excluded. Like I said, a pretty close model of the clubs of our childhood.
But reality must prevail. Given the current popularity level of our governing gang, the list is probably long.
There’s a maxim about how it is “hard to look away from a train wreck”. After the CBC release a sixteen minute virtual tour of the Lac-Mégantic aftermath, I disagree. I mean, I looked, but the camera work was so terrible that I had no choice. How many views through a wire fence can one viewer be expected to endure. Have to admit, though; the dance of two cranes (not birds, mechanical monsters) to shift an abused tank car from one scrap pile to another was interesting. Hey gang! Only a few dozen more to go.
There was also a retrospective of the Saguenay flooding from 1996. Without access to maps, it was hard to imagine just how many separate streams reunited to create the downtown deluge.
