Posted on 16/07/05
The comeback kid
The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada is standing outside the House of Commons, enumerating the qualities of the Honourable Robert Keith Rae. Her list is long -- he's candid, compassionate, courageous, articulate, knowledgeable, intelligent, and on and on and so forth. Suddenly, Anne McLellan halts, seemingly struck by what she has been hearing herself say. "You know," she reflects, "we do not have many statesmen like that. . . . It is a very small pool. You can count them on the fingers of two hands." Maybe, she amends, on the fingers of one hand.
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