I'm Inclined To Agree

Just when you thought the opposition couldn't stoop any lower for political points...

Incredibly crass,I have sent my thoughts to this low-life. I urge everyone else to do so also. This is one of Volpe's friends.

"I am wondering if the minister will share with us the exact expression that he is going to use when he meets those two families."

Answer: I'm going to tell the families that their son's sacrifice was a noble one; to safeguard democracy for citizens of good character and others who are less so.

I suggest the honorable opposition member contact the Canadian Wheat Board to find a reputable Canola farmer who can provide him with the necessary lubrication to pull his head out of his ass and breathe the clean air of the Governor General's two solitudes.

A Liberal wouldn't know proper decorum or good taste if it cornholed them on New Years Eve.

Just looking for their entitlements, I guess.

I can't find the comment in the Hansard record Lucas sources.

Admittedly, it's pre-coffee, but...anyone verify?

Jimmy K is another desperate Librano and that was one despicable rant by anyone's standards.
Why weren't there howls and demands for an apology coming from the all those within earshot of it is the question.
He should not get away with it.
That kind of politics is too low, even for that bunch.
Sending him emails is fine but won't mean anything, it's not public where it needs to be.

And to think, in his speech "What is a Nation", he says: "Mr. Speaker, I will not be supporting this motion put forth by this Conservative Prime Minister as he plays politics with my country."

The soldiers that defend "his" country, on the other hand, seem to be fair game.

Interesting, that he posted this on his website, but the version in Hansard (same session) doesn't have this hypocritical tidbit.

Sorry, but I think JK's comments are perfectly fair. Harper did put forward the "nation" motion. JK's comments are clearly an attack on that.

ken B...no one here is suggesting that Jim K. has to agree with Harper. Do you disagree that it was in poor taste to mention the death of Canadian soldiers in this context?

Typical Liberal JERK!

While I do think it was incorrect that Jim Karygiannis used this situation in the manner he did, he raised a question that I have put much thought into.

I was grew up in a military family. My experience is that military folks are very very patriotic and nationalistic.

What occurred in The House of Commons on Nov. 27 must have many of them scratching their heads and wondering just who they serve, and what "nation" they are fighting for.

I think people are getting themselves too worked up about the "nation" word. Of course, that is what the Liberals are working to accomplish. As a writer in the National Post pointed out today, the dictionary gives the word 2 meanings. One meaning simply describes a group of people bound together by common descent, language and history. On page 1084 of the sixth edition (2003) of the Collins Complete and Unabridged English Dictionary, the dictionary gives the French Canadian nation as an example.
It's all a tempest in a teapot and not something to drag the deaths of our soldiers into for cheep political points.

I hate the Libs as much as anyone and more than most.

In this case I don't see what the problem is.

There is nothing to see here. The point is a valid one. From the comments he made, he commends the soldiers and their sacrifice.

It is a legitimate question to ask what they are sacrificing for.

Wondering if anyone checked out the top post on Dust My Broom?? If this little comment by JK pisses you off,check this article out for the height of hypocrisy.Shameful..Kate,can you link it to your site?

I think that the criticism of Mr Karygiannis is fair; he could have made his point in a less offensive manner. We might consider the premise that it is somehow unworthy of people to make sacrifices for a country that contains more than one nation. The brave resistance of "plucky little Belgium" in 1914 was more properly the resistance of plucky little Flemings and Walloons who were loyal to their King. The bravery and sacrifice of Czechs and Slovaks in the face of invasion and treachery from Germany and USSR is in no way diminished because we now recognize the separate countries that these two nations have now formed. Attempts to suppress national identity, as in the USSR and Yugoslavia, often have led to pretty bloody and horrific consequences.

Correct about Harper's ill-advised mention of the N word but thoroughly distasteful to exploit the dead soldiers for the purpose of a cheap partisan attack.

Moreoever, he's a Liberal hypocrite (if you'll excuse the redundancy), Liberals being masters of disunity in Canada going right back to PET himself.