Watch out for those Socialist Billionaires!

Joe Oliver, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources (not to be confused with legendary jazz cornetist King Oliver, whose straight name also was Joe) complained today of environmentalists and others opposed to a pipeline that would carry oil from Alberta to the Pacific.

These people, said Joe, appear to be motivated by ideology. A curious charge for a Harper Conservative to make. What Joe meant was that the environmentalists' ideology is different from the Conservatives' ideology, which would make it wrong, if not totally evil.

Then Joe unleashed a warning: the protesters, he said, are being funded by Socialist billionaires in the United States. We didn't know there were a lot of Socialist billionaires in the United States. But if you meet one, please give him our number. Our motto: "Ideologies-R-Us."