Barry Penner is a friend to all animals, but it seems that not all animals are friends of Barry Penner. Check out this exchange from an interview with The Minister:
What keeps you up at night?
In addition to my wife’s cat? There’s always lots more work that needs to be done. I’m often thinking about the challenge of climate change and, these days, the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen [December’s United Nations Climate Change summit] and what the world’s response to it will be. - BC Business
Now, that’s just not nice. Here’s Barry Penner trying to get a nice night of sleep and figure out the solution to the problem of climate change and along comes some cat, crawling all over him, demanding attention or dead mice or whatever it is that cats demand late at night and keeping him from from saving the planet.
I feel your pain, Barry… I feel your pain.
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The new ‘no phoning-while-driving’ law won’t be any problem for Barry Penner. He’s ready for it, you see:
Last year, my wife and I purchased a used hybrid-car that has a hands-free phone option built into the sound system. My cellphone also has a “speaker phone” mode so I can use it without holding the phone to my ear. – Chilliwack Times
See, he has a super high-tech phone with something called “speaker phone” mode. Incredible. I bet it even tells him who is calling and what time it is and all sorts of cool stuff like that. Just wait until that becomes available to the general public. It’ll be like the Jetsons.
It’s also a nice of him to very subtly mention his car is a hybrid… just in case somebody has forgotten that he’s in charge of The Environment.
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Barry Penner loves water. A lot. It seems like everything he does in some way relates to water. I mean, it makes a degree of sense, as so much of The Environment relies on the wet stuff to work properly, but perhaps with Barry Penner there is a little… more going on there.
“One of the things that gave me concern [happened] this past summer, in August. The Ministry of Environment issued [an advisory] which was in my memory unprecedented,” Penner said.
“It was a high stream flow advisory — in August during what amounted to a drought. How could that be? Because it was so hot that the glaciers on the coast were melting at a very rapid rate.
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“Those kinds of things really trouble me because that’s our heritage up there. I view that as our insurance plan for long droughts. When it starts melting at such a rate that the rivers are raging, with no precipitation contributing, all coming from the ice melt, you know you are drawing down your heritage assets at a rapid rate.” – Vancouver Sun
See? Water, in addition to being the source of our province’s finances and a wily trickster, also makes up our very heritage.
Does anyone else remember the Heritage Minute that showed nothing but a frozen glacier for 60 seconds? Barry Penner does.
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Barry Penner makes a good point about the way that the world of today is different than the world of the past.
Environment Minister Barry Penner says pumping wastewater into the ocean might have been acceptable 150 years ago, but it’s not anymore.
“We’re in the 21st century and we need to do things differently than we did.” – The Times Colonist
Personally, I am a little concerned that Barry Penner thinks that the 20th century was 150 years ago, but I guess a decade feels like an eternity when you have The Environment to Minister.
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Someone should get Barry Penner set up with a Twitter account or something so he doesn’t have to send out a news release every time he discovers a cool new website.
“Within seconds of entering my postal code at RecycleMyCell.ca, I was directed to seven drop-off locations within four kilometres of my office where I could take my old cellphone for recycling,” said Environment Minster Barry Penner in a news release. – Parksville Qualicum Beach News
What’s next?
“Within days of entering my postal code and billing information at amazon.ca, I was shipped seven books to my office, where I decided to read the entire Harry Potter series in one sitting.”
or perhaps:
“Within seconds of visiting thedailycute.com, I was shown several delightful pictures and videos of kittens and puppies being generally adorable. I decided to find a place within four kilometres of my office where I could take my old dog for recycling and pick up a new puppy.”
Heaven help us if he discovers LOLcats.
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