this is probably unrelated Kate, but do you know anything about whats going on with Stats Canada and Ag & Agri-Food Canada, seems both have been over stating the Canola production for late summers crop, by a considerable amount ! just wondering how many $$$$ these gov't agencies have cost us by doing this?

I have no idea, Carl.

Question for Jack:

When you get your SARS looked at, do you go to a private or public clinic in Toronto?

He looks and sounds like he is Canada Grade A Prime for receiving the votes of lefties in GTA and PQ. Up with Jack. Down with Borat.

Fer Shame.....if that's possible.

Syncro

Farmer Jack?

More like Jack Imhoff.

Oh where or where is Bart Simpson when u need him?

Two questions.

1) Do we know if any Conservative politicians have ever misspoken themselves while addressing the public?

2) Do we know if there's any reason SARS might have been on the mind of a Canadian politician like Jack Layton in January of 2007?

Stephen

Yes... but they were in the same hemisphere.

Yes....ignorance.

Any other questions?

Syncro

Kate:

Regarding the comments being back up...yes, I am able to post, for example, on this thread (obviously). But, I am still getting an internal server error trying to post to smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005461.html#comments.

Just letting you know.

I wonder if the anonymous farmer he was talking to has ran for the CPC.

I could not hear it in the video but would loved to have heard Manitoba Ag miniter Wowchuk loudly whispering BSE to him during the speech

Comment like his are not too surprising since he has no idea of what happens west of Toronto city limits.

As much as I dislike Jack Layton everyone is enitled to a verbal slip from time to time. In fact, if SDA posters were held to the same standard in their grammar and spelling we'd be spending most of our time laying on the ridicule and a lot less discussing ideas. Jack has to be a whole lot more detached than that before it should become the story.

Thanks Kate for posting it - seeing something with your own eyes makes all the difference.

And keep up the good work - I love to see Warren Kinsella look even more like a fool when he tries to ignore you.

Let's see now...from big ass oil companies to Sars in agriculture ?
Is Taliban Jack smoking something ?

Why wasn't he wearing overalls and a straw hat and chewing on a bit hay?
Farmer Jack indeed.
It was an easy mistake to make when your deep in the Tronna Lefty world and hardly ever see a cow.
They are big on granola crunching and tend to be Vegans so BSE would not be top of mind.

sub-urban.ca

"if SDA posters were held to the same standard in their grammar and spelling we'd be spending most of our time laying on the ridicule and a lot less discussing ideas."

So I take it that career politicians who affect our lives DIRECTLY by making public policy decisions should just keep playing dumb because, after all, they are in charge of IDEAS, not graymur end spelink.

Philistine.

They say to be a polition you don't have to be smart, just popular. Jack is niether in my house.

suburban

it is not a case of jack imoff making a verbal slip, it is a case of jack having as much understanding of the topic as a tape recorder would, he's speaking to the "crowd" not about the topic at hand

if you want an example of verbal gaffs, listen to Bush, he's a dyslexic and makes errors all the time due to this fact

So what?? Your Tory idiots put their big feet in their big mouths every other day. How these idiots get anyone to vote for them is beyond me. Just the Rednecks like yourself Kate who wouldn't recognise an intelligent thought if it slapped you in the face.

It's so hard to follow such a cogent argument, but I will try.

Who cares about the gaffe? The gaffe score between Jack and Borat is way in Jack's favor.

Jack, by far, best represents the left in Canada. Particularly in Ontario, and, we hope, in Quebec.

Reminds me of the true story of a politician in Ontario running for office at a farmyard meeting.

Needed something to get above the crowd so everyone could see and hear him. I'm sure it was simply a coincidence that they put him up on a manure spreader.

"Just the Rednecks like yourself Kate who wouldn't recognise an intelligent thought if it slapped you in the face."

That's pretty rude. Whats the matter, you don't like people commenting on dumb ass Jack?
SARS....what a fool.

Is that a methane-pipe coming from him and up the wall?
Or an oxygen-pipe going TO him......?

For Jack Layton:
Farmworkers are paid very poorly...

I'd like some answers. Mainstream media won't supply them......
Nobody else but me see that Alberta's seven dollar wage is the disgraceful minimum for the nation, yet it's by far the wealthiest province?
And what % of gross would it have cost Ontario business to implement ten bucks an hour? Don't forget, worker-bees put that increase right back into the till.

And finally.... why would people living at or below the
national official poverty-level pay ANY taxes of ANY sort?
Shouldn't that be the benchmark for zero taxation?

Get jumpin' Jack. I know they don't vote for you out west but you'd impress a lot of other people.
Like me.

More like Jack Imhoff.

no, more like eJack-u-Layton

"Reminds me of the true story of a politician in Ontario running for office at a farmyard meeting.

Needed something to get above the crowd so everyone could see and hear him. I'm sure it was simply a coincidence that they put him up on a manure spreader.

Posted by: rockyt at February 3, 2007 2:07 PM"

rockyt,

You didn't finish the story. The Liberal politician started out by saying "Well, hello everyone, this is the first time I've ever spoken from a tory platform"

And a farmer in the crowd yelled: "This is the first time it's ever been filled."

lordanthony, I'm not sure what your issue is with AB's $7 minimum wage.

NOBODY IS PAYING THAT. You can't get someone to flip burgers at McD's for less than $8-8.50.

atwood

eJack-u-Layton

ok u win...

I do payroll for several businesses in the area, many of them restaurants, and farmers. I have yet to have anyone working for less than 10.00/hr. And that is starting wage, with NO experience.
And, if you head to the oil patch they are much higher for laborours, and if you have a trade they are thru the roof. I don't think all those workers from the maritimes will enjoy giving up that money, and neither will their families back home. Just might chance some voters choices next election. The ballot question might be, do I vote liberal for unemployment or Conservative for wages to support my family.