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November 13, 2015 1:03pm by David Farrar

Canada celebrates an openly ginger Minister!

They’re behind Australia which has had an openly ginger Prime Minister!

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KiwiGreg

and they are all a pack of socialists
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November 13, 2015 1:06pm
Nukuleka

Wouldn’t it be a more positive thing to be able to say: ‘Every Minister in our cabinet is the best person for the position they hold’. Can’t say that I would necessarily have confidence in the talents of any of these folk based upon the ‘qualifications’ Alana Phillips has provided. Their Minister for Democratic Institutions is a Muslim? Is the woman seriously suggesting that being a Muslim is any qualification for knowledge about democracy?

Pull the other one, Alana! (Maybe I should give the woman the benefit of the doubt and assume this is all a joke.)
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November 13, 2015 1:14pm
Ancient Dan

I agree with Kiwigreg,
They are all so “diverse, multicultural and every identity is covered” but since they are totally left wing there will be
no diversity of opinion just self centred identity politics as usual and a giant spend up on the tax payers tab
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November 13, 2015 1:19pm
mikenmild

It’s no joke, Nukuleka. Some of them seem scarily over-qualified – without the diversity card.
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November 13, 2015 1:21pm
Paulus Gnome

How long do we have to wait before one declares herself to be a victim of sexual abuse?

Himself as well in our politically correct non-offending bubble.
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November 13, 2015 1:22pm
Urban Redneck

What a disgrace. They don’t appear to have transgender/transvestite representation.

Intolerant Bigots !
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November 13, 2015 1:27pm
Manolo

And in not a so distant future Our Canada will be ……..royally fucked!
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November 13, 2015 1:30pm
Harriet

“…paraplegic…quad….breast cancer….wheelchair….blind…”

Why don’t they have an aborted person in the Canadian parliament – given they have every other victim?

Leftists are a fucken sick joke!! 😎
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November 13, 2015 1:34pm
Padriv Ustoev

This is very incorrect,

Minister for Immigration should be Muslim.
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November 13, 2015 1:36pm
Tarquin North

Their Christmas party would be a real hoot. Mind you, they probably don’t have one in case someone feels discriminated against. Metiria and co must be green with envy.
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November 13, 2015 1:40pm
Manolo

Our Imam Padriv is right: a Muslim as Immigration Minister will allow into Canada a great number of progressive men (and their chattel wives and daughters) who will advance the cause of Islam and its culture of peace and tolerance. Allahu akbar.
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November 13, 2015 1:55pm
stephieboy

Manolo, now, now time to get over your biiterness about the fate of Stephen !
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November 13, 2015 1:58pm
tom hunter

Oh dear. Another leftie with stars in her eyes and drool in her mouth. Heard it when Tony Blair won, when Rudd won, when Obama won, …..

They never fucking learn to actually keep their feet on the ground – ever:

This has been an election full of magic. White Magic that only the black man from everywhere and nowhere could perform. Even his adored grandmother dying on the eve of the victory had a mythic feeling of completion to it in a candidacy full of signs and symbols. Remember the three-point basketball shot when he played with the soldiers in Kuwait? It’s as if Obama is the prince who lifts the curse in a fairy story, a curse that began eight years ago with an election wrenched away from the rightful winner and begetting as a consequence the wrathful visitation of tragedy and wars and hurricanes and economic collapse.

That’s from a “seasoned” American journalist, one who is still getting invited to provide her “analysis”, even after that retarded display. And closer to home from 2008 we have the following from a long lost KB commentator, Jafapete, who claimed to have been a Ministerial Press Secretary at one point, a position one would have thought immunised him from the following garbage:

He is one of the great communicators of our time. His speeches make grown men and women cry. He articulates a very clear vision for the country, and invites everybody to share it with him. He’s inclusive (unlike his opponents). Do you not think that he has the capacity to inspire and lead his country?

He is so damned clever. He has demonstrated the ability to manage a stunningly successful campaign (unlike his opponents). Do you not think that he will have the most capable people advising him? That he won’t be able to manage Capitol Hill? Seriously?

He has demonstrated coolness that would do a zen master proud, and a far better understanding of the need for diplomacy than all the neocons in Washington put together. And he has the good will of the entire world (except, apparently, Georgia and Macedonia).

I could go on, but if you don’t get it by now, you never will. Sadly for you.

You never will…….
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November 13, 2015 2:01pm
Huevon

“Our Minister of Democratic Institutions is a Muslim”

Lol.
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November 13, 2015 2:05pm
Ed Snack

No, no, this is perfect. As the sole purpose of such pronouncements and divisions is social signalling to imply a moral authority otherwise unobtainable, this is perfect.

It also fits perfectly with the vision and determination by the left to destroy individuality; each of these honourable ministers is more important as a symbol representing a group than as a competent person. Identity politics, that poisonous invention, spreads further into the body politic. None of these people, and indeed by intent no Canadian, is a person, instead they are a group member and are fully represented by being part of that group to which they are assigned. Thus any individual can be treated in an arbitrarily cruel manner by their inclusion or exclusion from a specific group (you’re a zionist, stab stab STAB, or you, Ben Carson, are a traitor to your race and an Uncle Tom, thus you are no longer black and any treatment of you cannot be racist).

Paging Emmanuel Goldstein…
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November 13, 2015 2:21pm
Brigitte

Okay, here’s a challenge for you all this lovely Friday 13th. For any current MP, think of (i.e., make up) a Ministerial Post that they are qualified for. Thus Bob Jones could have been Minister of Sport – or Minister of Broadcasting (at the same time perhaps).

EDIT: For example, there are several current contenders for “Minister of Outrage”
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November 13, 2015 2:43pm
Nigel Kearney

Basking in their own imagined moral and intellectual superiority is one of the few joys the left have in life. It would be unkind not to let them enjoy it while they can. Reality will assert itself soon enough.
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November 13, 2015 2:59pm
unaha-closp

Half of our Ministers are women.
Half of our Ministers are men.

5 new ministries were created for ministers with no signing powers or budget and with lower pay. These new ministries all went to women, all the men got real ministries.
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November 13, 2015 3:09pm
brett68

What a lefty wankfest
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November 13, 2015 3:10pm
radvad

No Christians. What a bunch of bigots.
Seriously though Canada is in for some interesting times if these are the criteria for selection.
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November 13, 2015 3:17pm
jawnbc

Right…Canada—stronger economy, better social cohesion, higher standard of living—is worried about what some of you muts living in your parents’ basement in Huntly think?

When you have 180 people available for 30 positions you’re spoiled for choice. When NZ performs at a level similar to Canada, we’ll give you a call.
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November 13, 2015 3:34pm
Ed Snack

Social cohesion, really, so Quebec isn’t about to mutter about secession again soon ?
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November 13, 2015 4:11pm
Albert_Ross

Your evidence base, jawnbc?
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November 13, 2015 4:50pm
jawnbc

http://hdr.undp.org/en/data

Since when are the comments in this site based on evidence?
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November 13, 2015 5:06pm
Inandout

This Canadian lot are very much in Sweden’s fairyland politics. Diversity breeds a watered down culture, like a bag of hundreds and thousands.
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November 13, 2015 6:09pm
ngatimozart

The red headed Aussie PM mentioned in the intro. A.k.a the ranga as many Aussies called her. 😀
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November 13, 2015 7:15pm
V

And our Minister of Finance is deeply in debt.
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November 13, 2015 8:37pm
marcw

@ Brigitte

Minister for Logical Thinking: Jan Logie
Minister of Health: Steffan Browning
Minister of Transport: Gareth Hughes
Co-Ministries of Petulance and Outrage: Jacinda Adern and James Shaw
Minister of Entitlement: Marama Davidson
Minister of Fashion: Metiria Turei
Leader of the Opposition: vacant, but under dispute.
Minister for the Perpetually Bewildered: Catherine Delahunty
Minister for Integrity and Gambling: Winston Peters
Minister for Maori: Denise Roache
Minister for Justice: Colin Craig (awaiting swearing in ceremony)
Minister for Loudest Shouty Crossbench Retardment: Annette King
Most Promising new Minister: National, Judith Collins; Labour, not yet born.
Most Likely to Succeed Minister: ~~Asenati Lole-Taylor, Brendon Horan, David Cunliffe, Kelvin Davis~~ vacant
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November 13, 2015 8:40pm
Boris Piscina

marcw, you frighten me ?
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