Hey look, it’s our old friend Mr. Erl! It seems he’s running to be “Canada’s Next Prime Minister” the latest edition of which will air on CBC in March of next year. Here’s his introductory (audition) video:
And here’s his response to the video question challenge:
You can help Chris along in this process by voting to make him the “Web Winner” of the contest by leaving a rating (one to five stars — five being best) and, if you’re particularly ambitious, writing a review/comment on his audition video by going here.
6 Comments
December 20, 2008 at 7:43 am
Bright kid. Young people becoming sensitised to the idea that loss of community is disastrous for a society is one of the few hopeful signs I can see. It’s something that a lot of North Americans don’t appreciate until they’ve travelled a bit and see that, even in poor countries, a lot of social dysfunction is mediated by the community itself and is drastically less expensive than having to rely on social services all the time.
The mistake social conservatives have made is to insist that the family is the basis for society; it isn’t. It’s the community and that takes into account all kinds of people who don’t conform to the ideal of the intact, nuclear family. And the atomised, isolated family of suburbia is a complete distortion of family life.
December 20, 2008 at 7:50 am
He’s come a long way from parroting the vacuous tropes of so-called “conservatism” hasn’t he?
December 20, 2008 at 8:10 am
He’s come a long way from parroting the vacuous tropes of so-called “conservatism” hasn’t he?
That can only be a good thing…. Let’s leave the vacuous tropes to the vacuous such as JoJo and KKKate….
December 20, 2008 at 8:45 am
And they don’t have youthful indiscretion as an excuse to fall back on either. Both KKKate and JoJo are long in tooth, so to speak.
December 20, 2008 at 6:36 pm
He still hasn’t learned that horizontal stripes are not slimming.
December 20, 2008 at 8:47 pm
I don’t think that’s a problem for him.