Shamelessly trading on his famous name, a junior member of the Kennedy clan who is a lawyer working for The Natural Resource Defence Council has sent a “terse” letter to the Premier of Ontario telling him to snap to attention and change the 1800s law that enables Vancouver-based mining juniors to go onto aboriginal-claimed lands to seek uranium and platinum.  The full story and supporting documents are at this site: Wild Lands League 

This story is beginning to assume the proportions of a Disney comedy with a Tim Burton twist of tragedy, all over-animated by Pixar.  It is nigh on inconceivable that grown men could act thus: obdurate; venial; and arrogant.  And I include that upstart Kennedy kid in the league. 

Normally proud Canadians at dinner are quick to tell you how much they abhor Americans and their imperialism.  Yet here we have these same anti-Americans glibly adulating a young US lawyer.  What is wrong with this picture?

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