Blowing Air Kisses

A Globe and Mail article reports on John Baird, federal Minister of the Environment at the time, dropping in to collect food at an Ottawa vegetarian restaurant, the Green Door, and unwittingly gate-crashing Green Party Leader Elizabeth May's speech to a business group. She was presenting a strong critique of his do nothing Kyoto policies. Baird was commonly regarded as the Conservative Party's pit bull in a difficult portfolio subject to much opposition. So it raised eyebrows when he sought Elizabeth out and they hugged and air kissed before he declined an invitation to stay. Elizabeth reportedly put on her blog afterwards she liked John, just not his policies. Surprise, surprise. If only we non-politicians could be so magnanimous, liking our peers and colleagues just not what they advocate, say or do.