tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post2217130648008113108..comments2023-10-31T05:09:58.639-04:00Comments on maribo: A win for the environment?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-78420117904376697052006-12-07T18:18:00.000-05:002006-12-07T18:18:00.000-05:00True, the leader should be loyal to the country. W...True, the leader should be loyal to the country. Whether that was the case with all of the liberal candidates is a fair and reasonable question. Your second and third points does depends on the person. Anyone who runs for the leadership, professor or not, had a specialty at some point in their career. Whether they can step out of that as much to do with their personality than their profession. You'd hope that professors are fans of the scientific method, prepared to embrace the null hypothesis if the experiment fails to produce evidence supporting the hypothesis. That's not a bad model for governance (although one the current US leadership seems loathe to learn!)Simon Donnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844831377442275615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-4411907857383634612006-12-07T16:17:00.000-05:002006-12-07T16:17:00.000-05:00Why anyone who has been a professor should be disq...Why anyone who has been a professor should be disqualified to be a politician? Well, first of all my thesis is not disqualification from a political career, but in my modest opinion is a disqualification from being a leader of the country. <br />First, for a professor loyalty is with idea, not a country. To be the leader of any country, a person should have a loyalty to the country. In case of Canadian Liberals – having declared loyalties to 2 countries does not disqualify. <br />Second, a professor by definition and training is an expert in very narrow field. A professor considers his field the most important thing to a human kind. Therefore, a professor is a defender of his field of specialty. A leader is a person who has to consider opinions of many experts, population of his county, and other stake holders. A leader of the country considers his country most important in the world, he suppose to always act in the best interest of the country.<br />Third, a professor has preconceived idea about theoretical outcome, if (it always does) the outcome of action is different, a professor does not adequately remedy situation.<br /><br />Well, a good fun eh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-33443362655257892782006-12-07T11:40:00.000-05:002006-12-07T11:40:00.000-05:00Tim,
Your case being that the column was ridiculo...Tim,<br /><br />Your case being that the column was ridiculous and the author, a retired MP and professor, should not be leading a country? Sure, I'll grant you that.<br /><br />But one retired professor writes that we need non-democratic governance to address climate change, and that means anyone who has been a professor is disqualified from being a politician? Who is the one guilty of hyperbole here?Simon Donnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844831377442275615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25163458.post-16848991362990428322006-12-07T05:32:00.000-05:002006-12-07T05:32:00.000-05:00Here is one overwhelming reason not to allow profe...Here is one overwhelming reason not to allow professors to be leaders of the countries:<br />http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1165406828917&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795<br />I rest my case.<br />Maybe Dion should run on cutting subsidies to Bombardier, automakers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com