There's actually quotation marks around the whole thing?

It's a bad government and we'll choose a time to defeat this bad government, you will see. But, not right now, because the spring is planting time, the summer is growing time, and the fall is harvest time. I don't think Canadians want that.

you tink itts izzy bring dawn baad gooveerment i gots da new eyeglazzes i tink eye lookeng liikee leedar for sure me.

Should the date not read March 7 vice May 7?

How much longer before we begin to call Mr. Harper's government a coaliton government what with his finger-puppet buddy Stephanie.

"It's a bad government and we'll choose a time to defeat this bad government. You will see. But it will not be at this time when I have three suits at the cleaners. I don't think Canadians want that."

-Stephane Dion, September 28, 2009; two weeks after Stephen Harper dissolves parliament for the scheduled October 19th federal election.

Dis isn't fair, you don't know what you speak about. My mudder tell me dat every ting I speak about to bring down da Arper gavernment, will have to wait cuz everyone want my pants kick.

oh ha ha ha. you're making fun of his accent!

deadjoe:

If you don't think the French media in Canada ridiculed Joe Clark mercilessly about his technically correct, but woodenly delivered, French, then you clearly don't know much about Canadian politics.

And, as they used to say, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the puffin.. er, gander.

This guy scares me.
And i don't scare easily.

Because bad government is always superceded by important sporting events like hockey and basketball play-offs.

What is this? Ancient Rome?

Dion is one revolting politican. Every time he opens his mouth it is about this bad Conservative government. Yet he offers no solutions or alternative policies. He just keeps yakking about nothing and nobody is listening to him.
Typical Frenchman stood back from the heckler and let Bob Rae handle the situation. Then walked around with his prizzy mouth all tight. What a man! What a man! NOT!

Forget what they did and said about Clark, how about the non-stop "making fun" of the way Preston Manning spoke.

Air farce, 22 minutes, etc. But, silly me. I keep forgetting. It is fine for trough wallowing moonbats to say whatever they please about some damn westerner. But say something about a Quebecer, and watch the crocodile tears flow.

Stop whining leftard, and grow a set. I am sure bombardion can handle it.

Canadians don't want an election now because, well,because they like bad governments.They had us for 13 years,so they are used to badness,and Harper is badder then us Lieberals.

"We will go to the polls after Kyoto has had his puppies...we're flexable"

It's a gong show the Liberals are running, how better can one describe it?

Dion is as gormless as he looks, totally stunned.

"oh ha ha ha. you're making fun of his accent!"

Hack-sent? Hack-sent! Ah doan 'er no hack-sent...wad you talk aboud?

Who was it who said it's impossible to do parody now because what people are doing and saying these days IS parody--or, at least, should be?

'Hard to "improve" on this asinine comment. Very few statements coming from a politician could be as moronic as this one. In fact, are we sure HE SAID IT? What's he on?

On the other hand, it IS Stephane De-yawn, who never stops spouting inanities. I do think it's time for the Librano$ to muzzle him. He's SUCH an embarrassment...

We will not bring down this bad government when the bass season opens in the north, nor will we bring them down during spring planting nor when the dairy farmers are birthing their calves, and not when families are celebrating Bastille Day. It will be a time of our choosing.

Dere will be quatre 'undered centimetres de snow in Ottawa before I bing down da guvernment.

...oh, wait.

I wish they would bring down this govt. so Steven could get the majority that he needs to clean out the rot these stinking lieberals have thrived under, money stealing whores are the likes of Goodale and his ilk, As Canadian farmers are taking 7 dollars or whatever it is right now for their durum the American farmer is getting 20 bucks a bushel, And to add insult to Canadian Wheat board stupidity, the Americans are buying as much cheap Canadian durum at wheat board prices and flipping it for the 12 dollar difference. Yes you pathetic professor and your other brother professors, lesbos and assorted sociatal misfits please bring down this honest govt. so we can continue the process of saving Canada from total lieberal thievery. Get er done you nutless professors.

It's one silly outburst after another, first his comment on Quebec's Separatiste Leader, Marois's tactics, now this.

Since he's got nothing better to do than play gotcha politics, poorly at that and can't speak clearly, maybe he could sing to get his message out about how bad he thinks Harper is. Suggest he try "Bad Bad Leroy Brown", replacing Brown with Harper, since they're trying to convince people he's "badder than old king kong, baddest man in the whole damn town", yadda, yadda.

It's hard to fathom how anyone could contemplate voting Liberal with him at the helm.

The scary thing about some of the comments is that Dion is so utterly useless that some folks did not get the satire of the quote........

That he has gotten to the point that a quote like that is actually believable speaks volumes.

Clicking the link gives you the actual quote that these are based on. Canadians don't want an election because Ontario got some snow??????

He seems singularly devoid of pride; had he any, would it not compel him to review his words and tactics, and resign?

Still, I can't help but feel a certain pity for him. He seems like a very decent, if muddled, man, who is in deeply over his head, and knows it. Dammit, I'm such a soft-ass neo-con...God help me, I can't help kind of liking the poor idiot.

And yet, at the same time, I enjoy -- unabashedly -- the dreadful mayhem he's wreaking upon the LPC, for which I feel no pity whatsoever.

I pray he never leads our country and hope he finds an honourable out for himself, but not before he reduces the LPC to a heap of steaming, puffy diarrhoea.

As the pattern continues, Canadian politics revolves around not who one votes for but who one votes against. The residual becomes the lesser of the 2 buffoons. They are all cut from the same bolt. Then we have, as Lou Dobbs described him ( "the leader of a major Canadian political party" ) Jack "Ted Baxter" Layton. "Jumpin' Jack Flashless" has finally reached the pinacle!!....Chow Chow is so impressed.....they make suckling the public teat almost an art form. Puke.

The leader of the federal Liberal Party takes his marching orders from American-style Big-Basketball?

"Do you think it's easy to make priorities?"

Later, after he had time to think about it, he attempted to explain what he meant on CBC:

"When I say do you think it's easy to make priorities, wha (garbled), I mean is I want to be the leader."

His ridiculous accent has nothing to do with it. Dion cannot communicate in any language because he is not rational.

Therefore, the Liberals are not rational for electing him as their leader.

Liberals hijacked the articles comment thread, going on about Cadman. Frankly, for that matter, Liberal voters are not rational either. They willfully ignore the fact that you cannot buy a million dollar insurance policy for a dying man. Furthermore, if they believe Cadman's wife, then they must believe all of what she said. Specifically, that Harper had no knowledge of the offer. However, they reject that because it doesn't fit their imaginary narrative.

The same thing goes for the so-called 'naftagate' bs. It was Obama's people that leaked the story. And what of the actual content? If elected, is Obama planning to destroy trade with Canada, or not? Liberals are irrational, so they reject facts, even if it's to their own personal detriment.

Madness.

Post Liberalism is either a birth defect or a disease. The problem is rational and sane people have to share a country and unfortunately, elections with these unprincipled, irrational and depraved harpies.

What Dion said to someone telling him to 'Bring down the Gov't', on Saturday, Mach 8th, at a rally for Bob Rae in Toronto, was:

"It's a bad government and we'll choose a time to defeat this bad government," he told reporters. "You will see. But it will not be at this time where we have a snowstorm in Ontario and just before Easter. I don't think Canadians want that." Sheesh...So, a snowstorm is worse for us than bad govt.

Two things - It bugs me when our politicians, and these are primarily those in the Liberal and NDP Party, tell us that they will or will not do something because 'Canadians want/don't want it'. They haven't asked us.

But, I think there's a deliberate strategy going on.

I think that the Liberal Party is waiting for Rae to be elected in this by-election. By-elections are easy for Opposition Parties to win. That's why Ignatieff wanted an election- to prevent a by-election. In a general federal election, Rae might not win; he'll win the by-election. And then, he's in, and I suspect that he'll take over the Liberal Party. I suspect, even, that Dion will step down in about 6 months.

That's a strange suspicion; it doesn't even make sense to me, considering Dion's enormous egoism and academic isolation blindness that leads him to believe that his word is The Truth. But - it's a suspicion...I think the Liberal BackRoom Boys have a specific strategy.

I don't think the Liberals BackRoom Boys want an election now; it's not merely that they'd lose, but, they'd lose time and image. They have a different and very specific agenda.

They want Rae in for a year, to change the Liberal Image. During this time, their strategy will have two very specific tactics:

First, as shown by recent events, to tar and smear the CPC and Harper image.

They are not interested in the truth of these allegations; that's irrelevant. The strategy is pure vilification. Since it won't be based on truth, to get this Evil Image across to the general public, the accusations and smears will have to be continuous, one after the other. Each time one is deflected, another will be presented.

Ssecond tactic: Rae will be presented as the Nice Guy, tolerant and open. This is shown by his behaviour at the March 8 rally, where he handed the microphone to a protester. [How did these people know to show up?]

This Nice Guy image of Rae is going to be THE IMAGE of the Liberals presented by the BackRoom Liberal Team over the next six months. So, you'll have the backbenchers and others engaged in relentless, endless, smears of the CPC and Harper. Again- there won't be any truth to these allegations; the point is to make them.

The Liberal Party's strategy to defeat the Conservatives is not to offer up better policies. Their only agenda as a party has always been To Be In Power. Their tactics have always been to get in via manipulation and propaganda, and to stay in via bribing the electorate with their own taxpayer dollars.

This is no different. The strategy will be to set up an image of the CPC and Harper as corrupt. And set up an image of Rae as 'tolerant' and kind. That dyad, they hope, will win them the 2009 election. They don't want one before then; they need time for both Images in their Strategy to take root in the public mind.

Well to be fair to the Leftards they finally have a leader that reflects their ideology of "Anything goes baby". Finally a leader that represent their absurb ideals and ethos. Bravo leftards, you've done yourself proud in selecting a breeder I mean leader.

Long live socialism, hail the revolution-spit-spit. Snicker.

There's no evidence of reasoned thought among the Liberals and their minions in the MSM.

The Cadman saga is an example. As irwin daisy points out they're selective in what they choose to believe.

They don't believe Cadman himself when he said in plain English there were no offers.
Truth is not a priority when it gets in the way of Liberal politics.

ET...only one problem with your theory. The people of Ontario have not forgotten what an idiot Rae is, and his legacy as premier will provide good ammo against him in the next election.

Outside of the sheeple in Toronto, Rae is hated throughout Ontario. As well, this winter is waking the residents of Ontario up vis-a-vis AGW and all of it's bulls@#$.

It will be no cakewalk for Mr. Zimbobrae!!!

Right, kingstonlad - I agree. People haven't forgotten Rae. Or have they.

If he doesn't get in, I'll say they've forgotten. If he wins this by-election, I'll say they've forgiven/forgotten.

I'm trying to mull over what is going on with the Liberals. Look at a few observations:

Dion is being prevented from an election. The rumours are that he wants one; that he thinks that people would like him if they got to know him.
Ignatieff would like an election.
The Liberals aren't financially ready but I wonder if that's their real reason.

I'm saying that the BackRoom Boys, who are still the old Chretien, Desmarias, PowerCorp Adscam group, have a strategy.
The same strategy as usual: propaganda and manipulation.

Their old smear Harper was 'hidden agenda' and 'he's scary'. These images aren't very visible now. They are moving on to new images: Corruption.
The fact that the images are bogus? Irrelevant.

And Rae will be presented by the MSM to the Nation as Mr. Friendly Smiley-Man. The Ontario voter will fall in with this because the rest of the country will fall for it. The Ontario Voter will be 'bribed' by the Desire For A Return to Power of the Liberals...and...I'll bet Rae will become so Multicultural (after the Ontario balkanized ethnic groups)..that he'll be in a different folk costume every day.

k-lad: That it may not work does not mean that ET is not correct. After all, what other choices do the Liberals have?

Those damned Americans - meddling in our domestic affairs and politics. How dare they have NBA playoffs when we want to have elections. I think the year was 2007??? No?

Rae is campaigning in Toronto centre, I believe. In fact, I'm in his riding. If he gets in - and he will get in - has no bearing on whether people have forgotten what a horror he was, or forgiven him. They will elect a Liberal, or worse, because that's where their political loyalties lie.

Toronto is a writeoff for Conservatives.

However, the rest of Ontario can easily be reminded of Rae's bankrupt socialist policies. "Fall for you once..." comes to mind.

Stephane Dion makes so much more money and has a free house as leader of the opposition, and spent so much money on his campaign that he can't afford not to be the leader.

How much does a university professor make a year? But I guess he will have his gold plated pension.

God help Canada should Bob Rae get elected...

I'm sure Rae will get in (I'm in his riding as well). The so-called 'Leaside Lexus Lemming crowd' are for the most part, quite well off financially, with their govt jobs, teacher's jobs, unionized jobs'. They don't want self-responsibility. They don't want Conservatives.

Ethnic groups in Ontario, which means Toronto, have been set up as balkanized Liberal dependencies. That was the strategy of multiculturalism and worked perfectly; they are all faithful Liberal voters.

The rest of Ontario? They won't count in an election; the focus is on the seat-rich big cities of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver. And in those cities, dependency of BIG GOVT money is very high. So, the Liberal strategy of buying votes with huge grants to ethnic isolation, to buy votes to support Big govt and lots of govt pensioned jobs...it works very well.

That's the agenda with Rae. He's after the leftist socialist and the multiculturals in the big cities.
That's the Liberal people.

Being a long time fan of Barbara Amiel from the days her columns ran in the Toronto Sun.
I vividly remember her assessment of ND Bob Rae when he was taxing and borrowing Ontario into recession by deficit financing.
(taxing topsoil - remember that one ?)

She labelled him a "crypto- communist".

Geoff has it dead on.

"God help Canada should Bob Rae get elected..."

Joe Molnar - Rae will get elected. And he's the boy, I'll bet, that the BackRoom Liberal Gang are planning to put in.

I'm suggesting several things.

1) The Liberals don't want an election until harper's date of 2009. If there's an election with Dion as leader, they'll lose. Badly. That would certainly mean the end of Dion but more importantly, it might mean a Conservative majority and it would certainly mean years more of regrouping to get back into power.

2) I'm suggesting the Liberal strategy is to allow Dion to make a fool of himself. In power. Yet, somehow, have the Liberal Party move its Identity on to Rae. That is, they'll set up the situation where Dion is viewed as 'an unfortunate choice'. They'll wash their hands of him, but will allow him to self-destruct.

3) As Dion is self-destructing, they'll have Rae front and centre in the MSM - who will move into a Giant Love-Rae phase. Rae will be presented as the Genial, Kind, Smiley, Savvy...etc,etc.

He'll be politicking like crazy - going to each and every multicultural group, going to the key cities of Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal.

4) The other side of this Love-Rae strategy will be to continuously, endlessly, Smear the Conservatives and Harper. As corrupt.

The previous smear of 'hidden agenda' and 'scary' are no longer valid since he's in power and...
So, they'll have to try other allegations. All unfounded, all pure speculation.

But remember, they have the MSM to spread the word. The Liberals don't have to pay for ads, don't have to have any money. They have Craig oliver, Jane Taber, Gloria Galloway, Duffy, Newman, the whole CBC - all working for them.

5) They'll be doing this for a year. Working to PREVENT an election. The Liberals don't want one. They'll lose too much time with an election. Think about it.

They'd have to get another leader; they'd lose many seats. They don't want to waste that time and lose those seats.

So instead, they are campaigning NOW. Let Dion mumble and fumble. No-one listening to him. Move Rae in Big Time and have him take Centre Stage as the Genial, Smiling, Seasoned Man of The Hour.

And spend the rest of 2008 and 2009 doing this.
They are campaigning USING OUR TAX DOLLARS - they are using the MSM, the CBC...to spread their propaganda. Both their smear CPC campaign and their New Leader, Bob Rae.

Anyone watching Giggles Taber and Owl Oliver on QP today will know they're working hard for the Liberals no matter who the hell is Leader. Anybody will do a long as it's Liberal, that's the only qualification. They're comfy with the Liberals in power, more free lunches.

We need to inform CTV we're onto to their bias on this political program. Taber is out of her depth and Oliver, long time Liberal suck, is past his best before date.

The perennially humour impaired perfessor strikes again.

Regarding comments above about Rae as the chosen one. The CBC can back Rae all they want and invest tax money in the Liberal election plan but one thing they have overlooked is Rae running around bare a**ed naked with Ric Mercer. When the CPC start running their ads and proclaiming Boob Rae is no leader there are a lot of ethnic voters in Ontario that will look at the ad and agree with them. Ric Mercer may have done a big service to this country without realizing it, it might even garner him and Order of Canada.

ET, Grits will argue their past corruption is irrelevant - this is the new dream (on) team.

Rae will develop policy of saving environment by shipping money to Ontario from Alberta. You've said so in the past. Again - what other choice do they have, they won't win a single seat in Alta and must capture all big cities, and Atlantic Canada, to prevent Tory majority.

They know it; we know it. If they thought they could actually win an election, notwithstanding Dion's fantasies, the writ would have been dropped long ago.

Problem - Tories savvy, bloodied, and have lots of money, ideas and energy. Liberals, when you scratch away the new paint, are the same - tired, bereft of ideas, looking for any way into power and taxpayers' money.

The previous smear of 'hidden agenda' and 'scary' are no longer valid since he's in power and...

This meme is still very much in play as "Oh sure, he's not scary now ... he can't be ... he has a minority ... but you just wait til he gets a majority .... they'll be hanging gays from cranes ....". That last phrase is not too much of an exaggeration of a column in a Vancouver "neighbourhood weekly" shortly after Harper's semi-victory.
The campaign will be "We've got to stop Harper's secret agenda".

And BTW, that's why Harper's not touching HRC and section 13 of the HRA with a ten-foot pole despite the apparent unexpected support for free speech from several leftist sources.

Bob Rae is also on record confessing his economic sins as Ontario premier. He'll be very effective re-confessing these sins which after all were just an earnest attempt fight the receding tide.

But now the Rhodes scholar has learned his economics [read: he'll ruin Canada in a different way!].

The socialist university professor is amazingly shallow and is indeed scary.

Be nicer to Bob Rae after all he was so funny with Rick Mercer in that naked skit I'll bet everyone in the entire c... er at least the cbc building was rolling with politically correct. gender neutral. inclusive laughter, what a laugh the rest of the world has at our expense thanks to the lieberals and their greatest asset or ass end the MSM.

Antenor @ 1:16:

Ha! A whole new generation of "Not a leader" messages. There will be laughter from coast to coast.

"It's a bad government"... to be opposed vehemently with extreme running away.

Dion isn't scary. Neither is Rae.
What is truly scary is the electorate,who, according to polls will STILL vote Liberal.
Ontario lemmings are the worst.
I know...I'm from Ontario.

Nothing more disturbing to see than a fish out of water, or a clueless university prof out of his ivory tower. heh.

Polls?

Quebec by-elections, and

the Alberta provincial elections.

Liberals were overpolled by, what, 20 points in each instance.

That overpolling is the same reason the Lib's donations are in the tank.

Those mumbling their general leanings over the phone to some pollster doesn't translate into actually taking action.

"It's a bad government and we'll choose a time to defeat this bad government. You will see. But it will not be at this time where we have Julie Van Dusen getting a new hairdo and just before Krista Erickson moves to Toronto. I don't think Canadians want that."

ET, I live in Leaside and you are right about Rae and his liberal support. There are hordes of teachers, public union members and other leftists that are easily mobilized as when Miller was elected or to defeat really solid guys like Dave Johnson and elect their leftist candidates.

We see it on SDA all the time whenever our posters disagree with Harper or expect him to do something that right now he can't, some of them instantly bail, saying "That's it, he's lost my vote!". Whereas as we constantly see with our leftist trolls they just don't care about logic or reason they always, always support the Liberals.

No matter how many times you and so many other excellent posters try to use facts to present your excellent arguments it makes zero impact with the trolls. Yet you continually attempt to reason with them, debate them. You will never get to them as they have already moved on with their closed minds to throwing the next dagger.

May 7, 2008 as date for the Dion quote can't be right.

Pat, read the article.

"It's a bad government and we'll choose a time to defeat this bad government. You will see. But it will not be at this time because we just had daylight save time and so we sprang ahead and so the time is gone. But in the fall then we fall back and so there's no more time that we can choose then either. I don't think Canadians want that."

Eff effer I would defeat this bad goffren-men
It wouldn't be in summer
Seeing Mr. 'arper in summer,
I never could foat aggensce 'is butchet
'is 'air streaked wit sunlight
'is lips red as flame
'is face wit a lustre
dat puts gold to shame!

But if ever I'd aw-pozz 'im
it wooden be in owe-tem
'ow I'd aw-pozz imm in 'aw-tem I neffer will know
When I see 'ow ee sparkles
when fall nips de air
I no whim in ow-tem
and I muss be dere

And 'ow could I fote aggense tim
running merrily true deau snow?
Or on a wintry eef-ning
When ee catches da fye-er's glow?

If ever I would aaw-posz,
'ow could it be in spring-time?
Knowing 'ow in spring I'm bewitched by immso?
Oh, no,! Not in spring-time!
Summer, winter or fall!
No, never could I ah-pozz 'im at all!

"This is a bad government, and we will decided the date of our execution, that is, the next election. We blame the Bloc and NDP for defeating us in the first place, and removing us from our place as the definer of Canadian values, with full access to the public purse in return. We will not support this government, but ensure it continues until we can find the right smear, or h**l freezes over, or Oct 09, whichever comes first."

EBD, that was good. However, now my fond memories of Franco Nero have been sullied.

"It's a bad government and we'll choose a time to defeat this bad government. You will see. But it will not be at this time I have a rather good book I've been reading, Bob is making a pilgrimage to Lenin's Tomb and Michael needs to spend a month in the US so his work visa doesn't expire and I don't think Canadians want that."

When Rae did the naked ape thing they did some digital covering up of him and Rick Mercer. What a beautiful ad it would be if they "repaired" the image. and labeled it " as seen on CBC".

I see in The Independent,that Dion has another real winner running in the Maritimes (Walter Noel)..big article about ole' Walter having a bit of Dingwallitis "I'm entitled to my entitlements" Spent piles of taxpayers $$ on booze,perfume,etc.Long list for all to see.

The real story is that the Liberals are broke. When Harper was showing off his campaign war-room, it was a clear signal that they were loaded for bear. It intimidated the back-room Liberals.

"What is truly scary is the electorate,who, according to polls will STILL vote Liberal."

EXACTLY. Bravo, bluetech.

Is there even one Canadian who thinks egghead Stephane Dion actually follows or cares about Canada's favourite pastime, hockey, not to mention American college basketball? Besides he underestimates Canadians. We are are capable of processing two things at the same time.

Election...hockey...basketball...election. It's all so confusing...

Helen
Calgary

I don't know that Rae could take for granted the support of many public sector unions or their people. They are still smarting after the "Rae Days" debacle of the early 80's.

A funny story from his time in power: I had to visit a proctologist to ensure the plumbing was OK. As I lay splayed face down across the table, his very attractive young assistant (why does this profession attract the prettiest nurses?!) came in, and asked if everything was all right. I replied "All things considered, I wish Bob Rae was here instead of me."

Her response: "Oh, we'd love to get Bob Rae in here!"

can one shoot the clown?

When Rae did the naked ape thing they did some digital covering up of him and Rick Mercer.

Eventually, it's going to come to this: Mr. Mercer is a gay blade who used
to be funny, and the libs loved his support for their cause.

Wonder if the lib support amongst the immigrants
who they count on so much for their next majority
will stand if someone zeroes in on the gay thing
at the next liberal leader?

There is plenty of ammunition to toss at Rae, we have not forgotten. His former ideology is a seamless fit into the Liberal fold, culture shock there. The Dippers won't show him any mercy either.

He'll get elected in his riding,no problem, it's Toronto, land of brain free voting.
Question is, what will the Liberals do with him, he's a risk in finance for starters? They already have a guy named McCallum who can't add and a couple of nutty Professors who are gunning for the same job, king of the Liberalis Feudum.

There is plenty of ammunition to toss at Rae, we have not forgotten. His former ideology is a seamless fit into the Liberal fold,no culture shock there. The Dippers won't show him any mercy either.

He'll get elected in his riding,no problem, it's Toronto, land of brain free voting.
Question is, what will the Liberals do with him, he's a risk in finance for starters? They already have a guy named McCallum who can't add and a couple of nutty Professors who are gunning for the same job, king of the Liberalis Feudum.

The people in Toronto have Rae to thank for the doctor shortage in Ontario.
Under his Dipper socialist era, he felt the high cost of doctors was a real drain on health care, so he arranged with the U of T to graduate FEWER doctor's.
Cost us millions to placate the U of T for lost fees.
Any health care worker from that era knows all about 'Rae Days'.
Now we have different Rae days...7 hour waits to see a doctor.
Wonder if it's too late for the CPC candidate in that Toronto riding to make use of those facts...
ET?...