Grossing - deplorable MP

[Banditbandit]

This is deplorable from one of our supposedly senior MPs .. Tim Groser ...he's becoming a joke in Washington ..


http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/new...ectid=11451907

The Labour Party today accused him in Parliament of insulting Canadian diplomats by comparing the country's dairy industry to the Soviet Union.

Trade spokesman David Parker cited a scathing article by an American policy analyst, which said Mr Groser's behaviour had led to a new slang term in Washington: "Grossing".

The article said the Canadian Embassy in Washington was "privately bristling" at the minister's "counter-productive, undiplomatic sledging".

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL150...n-congress.htm

Immediately after noting the critical importance of Canada in concluding the TPP, Mr. Groser provocatively slammed its dairy industry as belonging “.. in the former Soviet Union.” Such incendiary public fighting words clearly do nothing to assist Canadian diplomats help N.Z. help itself.

More recently on 19 April, L . Ian MacDonald, a distinguished Canadian policy guru -- who previously served in the Canada's Washington Embassy -- while not disagreeing with the need for reform of Canada’s agricultural sector, observed that Mr. Grosser’s public statements come in an election year, where the chances of “.. the Canadian government, any Canadian government.." agreeing to end supply management was: "Zero. Zilch. Nada.” Ouch!!

With new urban slang terms like ‘quaxing’ entering the Kiwi lexicon daily, a person close to the Canadian embassy shared that the term for 'counterproductive undiplomatic sledging’ swiftly getting legs in D.C. : “grossing.”

[Banditbandit]

And how about this one? Groser believes Treasury should hide the true cost of failing to control pollution ...

http://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealan...ge/blog/52922/

From Hansard - the official record of Parliamentary proceedings ..

Dr Russel Norman : In light of that answer, what exactly did Treasury get wrong when it said in this paper that the cost to the Government of not cutting our greenhouse gas emissions was up to $52 billion—as Treasury said in this paper?

Hon TIM GROSER : I think what Treasury got wrong was that it did not use sufficiently sophisticated software to conceal the redacted information.

Groser thinks hiding things like this from voters and taxpayers is a good thing??

Maybe the conspiracy theorists are right after all ...

[TheDemonLord]

Isn't this par for the course for NZ politicians?

[Banditbandit]

Yeah .. but if we keep pointing out stuff like this we might get a few more people to NOT vote National ..

[TheDemonLord]

and what makes you think that Labour's politicians will be any better?

as I said - par for the course, and I meant that with no discrimination on the part of the MPs political leanings

[oldrider]

This is deplorable from one of our supposedly senior MPs .. Tim Groser ...he's becoming a joke in Washington ..

Anything that is a joke in Washington probably has high level validity in the real world!

[mashman]

Anything that is a joke in Washington probably has high level validity in the real world!

Wikileaks will let us know in 20 years time

[Banditbandit]

and what makes you think that Labour's politicians will be any better?

Don't really - just gut reaction ...

This grocer is doing us a disservice overseas ... he's a joke ..

[husaberg]

No idea what the Guy said but according to the article the friendly cannoks have a 200% trafif on Dairy imports, seems pretty steep......