Arrgh, and I knew that.
In February 7's "Washington Post: "Ottawa braces for “increasingly dangerous” COVID mandate protests...."
A story in four tweets....
We linked to this fellow (among others) via a twitter user:
Because the tweeter (and this version of the video) referred to the gentleman, Deepak Vohra, as Ambassador to Canada, my brain in autopilot mode did so as well.
Wrong. First off, Ambassador Vohra, although he is the senior member of the Indian diplomatic corps has not been a rep to Canada. He was the Indian Ambassador to Armenia, Sudan, and Poland, and served in seven other countries but no Canada on the résumé.
Secondly, COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES DON'T SEND AMBASSADORS TO EACH OTHER.
They send high commissioners. And I knew this because the Australian guy, Alexander Downer, who worked to set-up that Papadopoulos goofball in the Russia, Russia, Russia thing, had been the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Not Ambassador.
And why do I remember this factoid? Because when they send a carriage to fetch an Ambassador the ambassadors only rate two horses, whereas the High Commissioner's carriage is pulled by four.
Regret the error, etc.
If the reader cares to know what triggered this ramble it was these side-by-side NYT tweets which demonstrate the same hypocrisy by the Times that Prime Minister Trudeau himself did, as pointed out in the video:
Again, regret the error.
