the reality is that canada skipped the baby boomer generation. i know that sounds insane, but it's actually what happened.

the silent generation hung on in canada all through the 70s, 80s, 90s and into the mid 00s. chretien & martin were born in '34 and '38, respectively, and ran the country from 1993-2006.

stephen harper is on the x/boomer cusp (born: 1959), but few canadians would argue that he's a baby boomer. he's a dead-ringer for alex p. keaton from family ties, and there's probably a lot of truth in the observation.

canada did not ever have a prime minister born in the 40s and, excluding the '59er harper, did not have one born in the 50s, either.

the reality is that the world is currently run by baby boomers and people looking towards a generational turnover in the last election were jumping the gun. i told you that as it was happening - that the boomers would determine the election, not the millenials. the boomers picked these candidates in their respective primaries, and were going to dominate the vote in the end.

the canadian government needs a reality check: it's twenty, thirty, forty years younger than the governments in the rest of the world. and, these other governments are not going to look forward to the future when they see the canadian delegation. no. they're going to snicker that the canadians are up past their bed time. the canadians may not realize their own lack of experience, but the rest of the world will. and, we will not be taken seriously by these aging old men - aging old white men - that cannot relate to us or understand what we're prattling on about.

we need more old white men in government.