Somewhere in a hot tub of lukewarm piss ...

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... careful consideration of the reasons for Canada's failure to gain a seat on the UN Security Council continues among the Cons and their supporters in the media.
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"Canada barely escaped with its integrity intact at the United Nations", writes Kelly McParland at NaPo, "According to reports on the voting, Canada lost because it refused to sell off bits of its principles."
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McParland does not mention the Mountie made available for photo ops with UN delegates or the bottles of maple syrup delivered to them before the vote.
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Just small advance tokens of our appreciation for not compromising our integrity.
Honestly, you'd think the Cons would be more grateful to Iggy and his awesome UN mind control ray.
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h/t Canadian Cynic
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"Canada's back on the world stage"

It would seem that such international policies as

1) unstinting support for everything Israel
2) actively undermining the Copenhagen summit climate talks
3) delaying debt relief to Africa to advance the interests of a Canadian mining company
4) flip flopping hostility to China
5) snubbing an International Aids Conference held in Canada
6) cutting funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
7) refusal to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and
8) blowing off UN talks on nuclear proliferation, global peace and climate change in favour of a photo op at a Tim Hortons

do not ultimately translate into votes for a seat on the Security Council at the UN after all.
Who knew?

In his UN defeat speech, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon graciously blamed the failure on Michael Ignatieff - three separate times. Wanker.
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