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October 2, 2008

What Am I Missing Here?

How is this different from her day job?

The French-language arm of the CBC said Thursday it will summon for a meeting a reporter who took part in a web campaign launched by Quebec artists to protest Conservative cuts in culture subsidies and prevent the party's re-election.

Isabelle Guilbeault, who reports on arts for the morning radio show in Quebec City, recorded a 30-second filmed spot for a campaign called Unite our voices.

Dozens of Quebec artists, including singers Dan Bigras and Richard Seguin and personalities like Ghislain Picard, chief of the Quebec and Labrador Assembly of First Nations, have recorded clips for the campaign that has a clear goal: Making sure Prime Minister Stephen Harper doesn't get re-elected Oct. 14.

Posted by Kate at October 2, 2008 8:22 PM
Comments

Does this qualify as third-party advertising?

Posted by: Joanne (T.B.) at October 2, 2008 8:58 PM

Is this news?

Here in Toronto the CBC is (local host Andy Barrie and Matt Galoway to name the worst offenders) one giant anti government propaganda machine, so that story is old news for us.

I'm not a big Harper fan (that's my business), but I'm mad as hell that someone sitting in the corner office on Front St. is using my money to push the votes their way.

Who is that person (or people) anyway?

sl

Posted by: sheldon levin at October 2, 2008 9:04 PM

No bias there nothing to see move along.....media's left eye blindness

Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at October 2, 2008 9:08 PM

This is frickin painful..Layton..about two minutes out of the block...."Harper copies Bush".....

Layton should go back to his "Video Professor" job...

Lizzie is retarded...

Posted by: Mr Lahey at October 2, 2008 9:22 PM

What seems obvious so far (early) in debates is opposition leaders think that, unless you believe massive government intervention in the economy, with higher taxes for those bad "corporations" (the vast majority being small business) then "you don't care or you're incompetent."

Where did they get the idea Canadians would trust one of them with stewardship of the economy? What a laugh. Just look at the fools on the floor of the stock exchange, and the poor clients they're advising, and you get an idea of the panic in the opposition. Has Jack Layton or Stephane Dion ever heard of policy lag? An economic problem is detected, the market, with some fine tuning (facilitating) by government deals with it, or government starts intervening as situation stabilizes, and messes up the whole thing.

That's what Mr Harper meant when he said Mr Dion was panicking (like a deer in the headlights idiot selling off a portfolio instead of looking for market inefficiency opportunities).

Over at CBC, no doubt Harper is a big meanie, and that makes Duceppe, Layton, and Dion really angry (apparently it's OK for them to be rude and angry).

As far as May is concerned, not that it matters, her prescription for uncertain economy is more protectionism and regulation (ie-distortion). Oh yeah, that's what we need. After all only about 3/4 of our GDP is dependent on international trade, let's put up a tariff wall and raise taxes (also known as the Bob Rae prescription for prosperity).

When is Layton actually going to go after what's left of Dion's vote? What a laugh, this economic illiterate calling Harper incompetent.

Anyway, nothing to see here folks. More of last night, though Paikin is doing a way better job controlling the interruptions, especially May and Duceppe, who seem determined to not Harper get in a full sentence.

The VP debate in US is way more interesting, especially the tracking of reactions from men and women. So far, it seems Palin is performing quite well, and Biden is being forceful but polite. IOW, they are actually having a debate.

Now do you see why May doesn't belong in these debates?

Posted by: Shamrock at October 2, 2008 9:38 PM

Lizzie May claims we need more pulp and paper mills...
Aren't they big polluters?
Is she forgetting her Green roots?

Posted by: bluetech at October 2, 2008 9:43 PM

heh..wrong post...

Posted by: bluetech at October 2, 2008 9:44 PM

Pathetic.
Somehow I wound up on FOX. I don't know what drove me there. Could have been the snide remarks by Layton. Could have been the lack of repect displayed by the SOB that wants to destroy Canada. Could have been the illiterate Dion, or maybe it was the rants by the party leader without a seat. What a JOKE! I think maybe it was Layton, who used the private care system and then whined about about the medicare question. Yup! What a Hypocrite!

CRB

Posted by: CRB at October 2, 2008 10:44 PM

frak ... this post is not the debate ...

What Am I Missing Here?

How is this different from her day job?

The answer another question ... So you are being rhetorical?

Posted by: OMMAG at October 2, 2008 10:47 PM

The CBC must be feeling the heat.

Posted by: Ryan at October 2, 2008 11:46 PM

Lizzie thinks we need more pulp and paper mills?
No surprise, she needs some pollution and reams of paper to recycle to feed her Green shtick.
What a shrew.

Posted by: Liz J at October 3, 2008 8:08 AM

From the article.
"management will meet with Guilbeault about this "controversial situation" when she gets back from an undetermined leave of absence that is "not related to this event."

Working for the party in the trenches no doubt.

Posted by: richfisher at October 3, 2008 10:20 AM

So, is anybody filing a complaint against the CBC with Elections Canada?

Posted by: grok at October 3, 2008 11:41 AM

Your Tax money working against you. Give Harper a Majority so he can clean out the barn.

Posted by: doug at October 3, 2008 12:15 PM
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