THE CONSERVATIVE HIPSTERS

How's that ticker?

Good to know he's greatful.

I'm sure you've heard about young Djamshid, the Afgan boy that was flown here for heart surgery a few months ago. Sick Kids Hospital of Eastern Ontario performed the surgery and he's doing well it seems.

But now the father is claiming that he doesn't have a job to go back to and that he wants the rest of the money that was raised by the Muslim Association of Hamilton.

Huh? I guess flying your boy over here, treating him, paying for your stay and providing follow up treatment and medication is somwthing every government should do--for other country's citizens. But what have we done for him lately?

I have to be honest, this kind of takes the sheen of the whole operation. Look, Afganistan is no picnic. I get that. But Canada, its citizens, its army or its doctors didn't have to lift a finger to help. But they did. And we didn't even get a thank-you card.

To now ask for more money is a little crass and selfish, don't you think?

I'll think twice next time I'm asked to perform life saving heart surgery!