Canadian politics is fun!

[theweaselking]

I haven't had one of these in a while. Canada's Interim Placeholder Government has nominated a YOUNG EARTH CREATIONIST to the post of Minister of State for Science and Technology

FTFA:

Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution.

"I'm not going to answer that question. I am a Christian, and I don't think anybody asking a question about my religion is appropriate. Duh, I eat poop!" Gary Goodyear said in an interview with The Globe and Mail.

Given Stephen Harper's long track record of rapidly and vehemently silencing any member of his party who reveals the core principles of his party in public, I expect Goodyear to be out on his ass in a week, after telling the Globe And Mail that he thinks evolution is a religious issue. But, hey, for variety, this time it's an antiscience anti-education moron appointed to run science, rather than another white supremacist being put in charge of INAC again.

EDIT: That didn't take long! One call from Harper, and the creationist nutjob has recanted!

Comments

[frith]

*moan* Am I going to have to move to the US to get away from the Intelligent Design dimwits?

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

Aha. Ahaha.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Awww, c'mon that has to be a joke. The government has to be joking there? Right. RIGHT?!

Oh dear. Oh dear. I thought Canadians were supposed to be the sane ones?! Is there something in the water in North America?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Canadians are the sane ones. A creationist being put in charge of a government position on science? Made the largest paper in the country, on the front page.

"One call from Harper, and the creationist nutjob has recanted!"

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

Re: "One call from Harper, and the creationist nutjob has recanted!"

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No, he still eats poop. But now he's confirmed to be a *liar* in addition to a credulous anti-intelligence moron.

[madfishmonger.livejournal.com]

Wait wait, our Minister of Science is a chiropractor?