Macleans' Dubious Award Winners Hall of Fame:

Featuring the twin brothers of destruction: Arafat and Flaherty





In case the completely distant and out to lunch journalists at Euromoney don’t know it (a condition which has been observed to exist on at least one occasion) Macleans magazine is Canada’s largest circulation magazine. Macleans was prompted by Euromoney’s absurd act of naming Jim Flaherty as their FM of the year ( or was it fraud artist of the year?) to put together a rogues gallery called the Dubious Award Winners Hall of fame.

The comparisons between Jim Flaherty and Yassar Arafat are striking, what with the wanton destruction that Flaherty has inflicted on innocent law abiding people in his home country of Canada, something which Euromoney must consider to be a colony of Britain, given their complete disregard for how Flaherty’s policies actually affect Canadians, but rather what it myopically means for them and their "high finance" cromies, intent on pillaging Canada.

Here is Macleans description of these dubious gentlemen's dubious awards:

Yasser Arafat, 1994 Nobel Peace Prize:

During the nearly 50 years Arafat led the Palestine Liberation Organization, the group was responsible for attacks that included bombings, assassinations and hijackings. He was rewarded for those efforts with a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, which he shared with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

Jim Flaherty, 2009 Euromoney magazine Finance Minister of the Year:

As Prime Minister Stephen Harper has yet to tire of repeating, Jim Flaherty was recently named finance minister of the year by Euromoney magazine. Euro-what? Harper and Flaherty swear it exists.

See the complete list of equally dubious winners here