Tony Clement helps save drowning woman

[daleo]

Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement risked his life on Saturday to help rescue a woman from the Muskoka River.
...

"We rushed out & dove in. She was just too far away & I felt the undertow working on me. I had to get to the riverbank," he tweeted. "Fortunately Jennifer somehow figured out she could float on her back. Two others got her to shore … Post script: my wife Lynne and her father Doug got to Jennifer first. Another two locals jumped in too. It was a team effort."

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/07/25/clement-drowning.html#ixzz0ujzABX00

Commendable behavior. I can recall getting involved in a similar situation when I was about twenty. These things happen.

But he's still wrong about the census, and he should borrow a bit of his swimming courage to supplement his political courage vis Harper's clueless census strategy.

[EmilyKent]

1. Except as you'll notice, he didn't

actually do anything.

Well, he tweeted about it.

[daleo]

2. He jumped in and tried to help

So the intention was there. But tweeting about your own (attempted) heroism is dodgy.

[EmilyKent]

3. Yes, from what I've learned

it's considered very unCanadian.

[JBoy]

4. Ironic how he quotes statistics about numbers of drowning deaths.

I wonder what organization would collect statistics like that, and was the reporting of the incident voluntary?