Bourque'ing it up again

Pierre Bourque runs a news clipping service which is widely followed among political junkies, although its difficult to understand why at times given his editorial propensities.

Today he ran a poll:

Should a citizen of France be Prime Minister of Canada ?
Yes: 22%
No: 76%

This poll refers to Stephane Dion’s dual citizenship – he’s a citizen of France only because his mother was born there. For a period of time, I could have easily obtained citizenship in the United Kingdom. No doubt more than one of our provincial and federal politicians have that distinction today. Where’s the outrage?

More to the point, the ultra-right buddy of Stephen Harper, one Ted Morton, is a dual citizen: born in the U.S., Morton only obtained his Canadian citizenship in 1991. Morton was almost elected Premier of Alberta.

Where was the outrage from Bourque and the wing-nutty right over Morton? There was none, of course, and this is no surprise as hypocrisy is the name of the game in Conservative “Rovian” politics on either side of the 49th parallel. I tell you, its embarrassing to be a Conservative these days.