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Only In Canada You Say…Pity!

Trudeau Government not looking for any site for Court Painter portrait gallery

Court Painter alongside some of the paintings that could be part of a Court Painter National Portrait gallery.

Heritage Minister says finding a site for collection not a priority….ever!

The government won’t be looking for any site for a Court Painter national portrait gallery after an intense 10 minute analysis.

The Prime Minister announced on Wednesday that he’s got better things to do.

When news first surfaced several weeks ago that a Court Painter National Gallery wasn’t even on the Liberal governments radar, advocates for the gallery including a distraught Court Painter and his disheveled Press Attache said they supported the idea and hoped the government would reconsider and find a site for the portrait collection, reportedly made up of meticulous hand rendered digital masterworks ,set in hand carved mother of pearl inlaid frames and wrapped in fine silk.

The collection is currently housed on a thumb drive in the Court Painter’s studio vault in Inglewood and is one of the largest Court Painter portrait collections anywhere in the world… bar none and without a doubt.

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly said during a lobbying effort by Court Painter & his Press attache outside the House of Commons on Wednesday that her department was not looking for a site and,”Start ups of this kind are not part of our government’s industrial art infrastructure subsidy pork barrel initiative model program…. now or ever, period!”

“There’s presently no project for a Court Painter portrait gallery, now or ever, period! ” she repeated while closing her eyes with annoyance.

Joly explained in the government’s defence of this heartbreaker, “The collection is accessible on line. Exquisite digital collage examples of the portrait collection are sent out free of charge to random Canadians and the Court Painter hosts an occasional open house with slide shows at his tony Inglewood studio. This is more than enough,” she muttered in wide eyed annoyance!

After calming down ,the Minister went on to say,“In my opinion too many Canadians over the age of consent already have access to the collection. …however on a more conciliatory note we have great communication leadership within Court Painter’s studio especially with Press Attache A Hardon MacKay….a fine specimen of a yappy senior.”

Minister Joly presented the ‘fine specimen’ with a 150th Canada Anniversary flag which he waved enthusiastically.

Court Painter was unavailable for comment.

Mob Outrage

In another outstanding National Post (June 19) blog piece of investigative journalism, John Ivison treated his readers to a red flag hoist warning of mob outrage relating to the criticism of our vulnerable Governor General, known in some circles for his shock of white hair and past hockey prowess. One can only assume that Ivison’s assimilation is complete into Canadian society as an original Scot immigrant who has a burrr under his saddle and now feels it his patriotic duty to warn his fellow Canadians that criticism of the Queens representitive for an acknowledged faux pas is now outrage by the mob!

Thank god, those critics who in great numbers criticized the critics of the Governor General’s original statement are not by Ivison’s rigorous standards , considered part of the mob.

Please note: Possible source of Mr. Ivisons application of mobbing.Just guessing!

Mobbing (Scots law)

From Wikapedia

Under the law of Scotland, mobbing, also known as mobbing and rioting, is the formation of a mob engaged in disorderly and criminal behaviour. The crime occurs when a group combines to the alarm of the public “for an illegal purpose, or in order to carry out a legal purpose by illegal means, e.g. violence or intimidation”.[1] This common purpose distinguishes it from a breach of the peace.

Mob

In HM Advocate v Robertson (1842) 1 Broun 152, at 192 to 193, Hope L.J.-C. said in his direction to the jury:

An illegal mob is any assemblage of people, acting together for a common and illegal purpose, effecting, or attempting to effect their muncer purpose, either by violence, or by demonstration of force or numbers, or by a species of intimidation, impediment, or obstruction, calculated to effect their object.

He went on to say:

It is not necessary that the purpose or object of the mob should have been previously concerted, or that they should be brought together and congregated with the view previously formed of effecting the object subsequently attempted. It is enough, that after they have been so assembled and brought together, finding their numbers, and ascertaining a common feeling, they then act in concert, and take up and resolve to effect common purpose. There must, however, be a common purpose and object, for which they are combined and acting in concert, after they are congregated and operating as such throughout the acts alleged to be acts of mobbing. That object or purpose must be unlawful.

These passages were approved by the High Court, as an accurate statement of the law, in Hancock and others v HM Advocate 1981 SCCR 32.