Oh Brother! Leave Jacques Parizeau Alone! Is it That Slow of a Newsweek?

I pass the Jewish General Hospital everyday on the bus going to and from work.  Yesterday and last evening, media trucks had set up camp and for what? Nothing was happening. They were waiting all day for a communication officer to come and tell them Parizeau is resting comfortably and is improving? They all wait, eager to pounce at the first sign of Parizeau or his people coming even looking out that window where the main entrance is. Pathetic really, considering odds are that when Parizeau is released from hospital, you can bet he ain’t goin’ out by the main entrance.

CJAD can’t seem to stop talking about it.

Chucker Canuck is blogging like he hasn’t seen this sort of big news since, well, that fateful referendum of 1995.

The grumpy separatist crumudgeon who famously blamed ‘money and ethnics’ for thwarting his life’s dream chose the Jewish General Hospital. Money and ethnics are good for some things, afterall.

Ok, so he’s at my neighbourhood Jewish General Hospital. Has anyone been as of late to their ER? Like any Montreal Hospital, the Hospital nurses are French Quebecers for the most part. At least, when I was there last. But that’s neither here nor there.

If he were transported by ambulance, he wouldn’t have had much of a choice. They (Ambulance techs) would, as per their job requirement, take him to the nearest hospital with ER space.

If he were in the neighbourhood, like anyone else, he would go to the nearest ER.

Any number of reasons would have driven him there.

As pointed out, he’s 79: just recently published what will more than likely be his last book and from what I hear, he has mellowed out with old age. Leave the poor man in peace.

Oh and Chucker,  I can tell you that without the predatorial media at his heels, Parizeau is not as grumpy or curmudgeon as you think.   He was a regular customer at the taxi company I used to dispatch at. If only every taxi customer can be as polite and as reasonable when there are delays due to bad weather, lack of cars and such, as he is…

Oh, and talk about damned if they do; damned if they don’t.  You all maligned Danny Williams for going to the State side for some of that ritzy 5-star hotel treatment, as well as you all lambasted Jack Layton for having used the health care  services of the private sector in Toronto. 

At least, Parizeau, is using the public system; the same one everyone is using. 

He has resources and is now stable; probably even stable enough to transfer to a private facility south of the border. But, it seems he’s staying put in our gawd awful, gulag styled, third world public facility.