Tuesday, March 22, 2005

So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehn, good night...

Courtesy of Rick Mercer's Monday Report, Canada bids Adieu to Paul Celluci.

posted by calgarygrit at 10:43 p.m.

6 Comments:

  • He's going to work for Magna Entertainment (http://www.magnaent.com/) which is owned by Frank Stronach and based in Toronto. It's a good place for him to be as the company needs someone with political ties to get more expanded gaming onsite at racetracks.

    By Blogger Bemused, at 11:36 a.m.  

  • Representing your country's positions is one thing: Doing so in public and berating the country you're posted to is quite another.

    Do you know of any other ambassador that has left with so much hostility and gotten a Rick Mercer type sendoff like that?

    As the end of the skit says, "Good Luck being obnoxious in the private sector"

    By Blogger Oxford County Liberals, at 3:07 p.m.  

  • Josh; You have to admit Celluci was fairly condesending towards Canadians with respect to a lot of issues. If Frank McKenna decided to give the US a lecture on how to run their country every month, you just know that he'd take a lot of flak over it.

    By Blogger calgarygrit, at 5:35 p.m.  

  • What bugged me was not the content, it was the tone. if you can't get a diplomatic and friendly tone from an ambassador who can you get it from? there are a few little countries in the world that are run out of the u.s. embassy. maybe cellucci though he was in one of them.

    i also think that if frank mckenna acted this way he would be sent home fairly quickly.

    By Blogger Robert McBean., at 7:27 p.m.  

  • An ambassador's job is to forward his government's positions.. but conventionally its to do so behind the scenes.. not having a press conference every other day and telling Canadians how silly they were not bowing to the wisdom of the US and GW Bush.

    By Blogger Oxford County Liberals, at 3:24 p.m.  

  • Question: Was Cellucci acting out-of-the-ordinary by being public about his criticisms, or do most ambassadors do that and Cellucci's was the only case that got any media attention?

    By Blogger The Invisible Hand, at 8:41 p.m.  

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