This just in: – earlier this evening Ambassador Horace Bullwinkle – our man in Topongo, was killed by a 25 foot crocodile while swimming in the Topongo River. Details are few at this time…
Next Day: – we now have more on Ambassador Bullwinkle’s tragic passing, apparently he was with a non-swimming aide at the time of his death and the aide had seen the crocodile leave the river bank and head in the direction of where his Ambassador was swimming.
But folks this is where it gets interesting. The Aide had along his trusty Blackberry and managed to fire off a message to Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird minutes before the attack actually occurred.
This leads to naturally to the question, ‘What Did Minister Baird Do When He Received The Pre-Attack Message?’ In other words, could Ambassador Bullwinkle have been saved if Baird had reacted more promptly?
We turn now to Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair for comment:
“This is just another in a series of recent tragic events where senior Government officials have had knowledge of impending trouble and have blatantly failed to act quickly enough to resolve them”.
“We are all aware that the Government knew about the shenanigans going on at the Iranian Embassy a week or two before it became public. And then we have a senior official in Premier Clark’s bureaucracy being advised 2 or 3 hours in advance of a potential avalanche, and now this”.
“Clearly Our Senior Government Officials- from the Prime Minister down - are no longer in control”, blustered Mulcair.
In closing his piece, the announcer did allow that the Aide was asked why he had not dialled 411 to which he responded, “I thought of that, but knew they could not get there in time to save my Ambassador”
Of course.
As I see it …
‘K. D. Galagher’
