It's too hard

Back to witchcraft, which to a Harper Conservative is so much easier.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will abandon its role as the world's largest supplier of medical isotopes.

“We anticipate Canada will be out of the business,” Mr. Harper told a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

The shutdown of the aging NRU nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ont., which churns out a third of the world's supply of the radioactive material, has created a crisis for nuclear medicine specialists both in Canada and abroad.

Gee, Steve, what about that World Stage™?

And what about all those medical procedures you were so worried about less than two years ago?

What about the fact that you fired Linda Keen because she was telling everyone, including you, that Chalk River was dangerous?

No matter how you cut it, bucko, she was right and you, you petulant little freak, were wrong.

You just wreaked a trail of destruction to accomplish... nothing.

Nathan Cullen, the NDP critic for Natural Resources, said the government's “failure” should not be the reason that Canada steps out of the isotope business. Mr. Cullen said his party has been receiving plenty of information from former AECL employees who have said the Maples could be revived.

Whatsamatter, Steve? Couldn't find a buyer?

Of course none of this will have anything to do with the fact that MDS Nordion went looking... and found what they needed in Belgium.

Scratch that political donation.

And then there's the other angle...

You can't really fire her, can you? Not now, anyway. Aside from the fact that you shot your wad defending her, she's one of the best connected members of your Addams Family/Munsters coalition.

How do you deal with her?

Pull the rug out. Take away the "sexy" file. Now her ministry is no longer responsible for making sure Chalk River continues to grind out medical isotopes. Now she and her leaky ministry are simply there to oversee the PMO approved death of a leaky reactor. Hell, you already spent her wind-power development money on gas for the Escalade.

Global shortage of Moly-99? What shortage? We don't do that stuff. Patients unable to get nuclear medical diagnostics and treatment? Not our problem.

HUD went rooting through the hamper and found an old Conservative sock.