Ben Mulroney as an example of Canada's "Productivity Crisis"

The Globe and Mail had an article this week about Ben Mulroney (click on the link from Google, can't link directly as it comes up subscriber-only that way), on the occasion of his 30th birthday:

In short, Benedict Mulroney (his full name) is someone who has been groomed, at an expense of hundreds of thousands of U.S. and Canadian dollars, to take his place in the highest echelons of the post-NAFTA Canadian establishment...

Simply put, Ben Mulroney doesn't seem to be pulling the weight he was intended to pull. And now that he's 30, Mila and Brian need to invite him down to their digs in Palm Beach for a heart-to-heart tête-à-tête to ask: "What's it all about, Benedict? Is it just for the moment we live?"

Which is kind of what I've always thought (though I don't seem to find him half as annoying as so many others) - you need a law degree to host Canadian Idol?