The Unoriginality of Paul Martin Jr.

This has been bugging me a while, now, but I only just remembered it when I heard about Harper telling GG Michaelle Jean not to go to Beijing for the Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony because he may need here here to dissolve Parliament if he chooses to force an election for the Fall. He opted instead to send Ontario Lt. Gov. Michael Only, himself a quadriplegic, which makes more sense to me anyway.

This is how unoriginal Harper's predecessor, PM Paul Martin Jr., was in selecting his Governor General. On the left, the Governor General as selected by former Liberal PM Jean Chretien. On the right, the Governor General as selected by former Liberal PM Paul Martin Jr.

VS.

GG Jean is married to an uglier, dumber, and older version of John Ralston Saul. (Who has an awesome new book coming out in September! Which I'm super excited about!) Martin in his unoriginality picks a successor for Clarkson who is essentially, in most ways, her doppleganger: a woman from a minority background, the daughter of immigrants, who found her prominence in Canadian journalism circles, and married an old, white guy, just like Adrienne Clarkson did.

Except Clarkson married two old white guys - beat that, Jean!