The talent pool in Ottawa doesn't have a deep end

That is such a banal observation I can't help but think it must have been made many times before. 

Look at the gal who is Deputy Prime Minister, and Finance Minister on the side. She is often referred to as "Justin's brain," at least by me.

What do we know about her? 

She loves Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalism runs through her veins. 

When she was top banana at Reuters News she got to talk to a lot of billionaires. She even wrote a book about all the billionaires she got to talk to. It was a best-seller.

She's the one responsible for negotiating our new NAFTA. One of The Globe and Mail's top pundits opined that Canada was embarrassingly out-played in those negotiations.

But she's the best qualified candidate to be both Deputy PM and Finance Minister. At the same time!

See what I mean!

Then there's Loose-Lips Lametti, our nation's top legal mind, which one would think would be the qualification for Attorney General and Minister of Justice.

This is the guy who thought mandatory minimums for gun crimes were discriminating against the BIPOC community. If some stressed out single mom fired off a couple rounds at the corner store out of sheer frustration with her sad life, and nobody got hurt, well, why should she be subject to the mandatory min intended for hardened criminals? He actually said that. Look it up.

He's our Minister of Justice? 

Now, on the face of it, you might conclude that just proves he's a man of compassion. But just today he was talking about the murder of that Muslim family in London. Yup, the Justice Minister just told you it was murder, so why bother with a trial?

I'm guessing the defence team will be sharp enough to seize on that. Good job, Loose Lips!

Not only is David Lametti the Justice Minister and the Attorney General, he's a moron to boot! 

Idiocracy isn't so funny anymore.

Meet the sharpest legal mind in Canada

That mind could only belong to Canada's Minister of Justice, David Lametti. Opining on the cruelty of mandatory minimum sentences, the Globe and Mail attributes to him the following quote;

Imagine an overwhelmed single mother who walks into a store and shoots at the ceiling, scaring people but hurting no one. Is incarceration with a minimum mandatory penalty the right penalty for her?

Say what? 

An overwhelmed single mother walks into a store, pulls a Glock out of her handbag, and fires a round into the ceiling... hey, no harm done, and besides, she's overwhelmed. 

If there's anybody who deserves a break, it's gotta be them single moms. I say give her a break, maybe have her patch up the bullet hole on her own time... although being already overwhelmed, that too sounds somewhat harsh. 

Maybe the kids could help her? Restorative justice, family style?

But, what if it's an almost but not quite overwhelmed single mom who opens fire at the 7-11? 

Or an overwhelmed single dad? 

Or an overwhelmed married mom? Quite often married moms are even more overwhelmed than the single ones. Look at the jerks they married and you'll see why.

When you get right down to it, damned near anybody can have such a no-good rotten day they see no other option than pulling out a gun and shooting up their neighbourhood convenience store. Mr Lametti is clearly onto something. A one-size-fits-all criminal law is dangerously discriminatory and fails to recognize that every citizen is a unique and precious individual.

A few tweaks to our criminal justice system, and that "just society" Justin's daddy used to talk about will be within our grasp!

Thank you David Lametti!