Great post by Stephen Taylor, who was on Parliament Hill for the post-Gomery action;
Yes, I heckled the former Prime Minister as he arrived to give perhaps the most serious press conference of his life and it got a good response from the press waiting out in the cold. Chretien bowed his head and grimaced as he walked into the building without a word. I guess that this perhaps one advantage of being a blogger instead of a full fledged member of the mainstream media; you get to rip into politicos when they deserve it while not risking your media clout.
Not to take anything away from Stephen’s quip, I think the correct question would have been: “Mr. Chretien, did you bring your balls?”
Obviously he did. What a hoot these next few days/weeks are going to be. When the Grits devour each other I think we should all get really drunk. God knows the Yankees getting blown out in the AL playoffs deprived me of at least one really good piss-up this year.
Stephen is all class. But a bit of a coward.
While Stephen Taylor might think he was “cute” to heckel the former PM in this way I might point out the letter that he sent to the Cannukistan Cronicles a few days ago removing him from the Blogging Tories.
“You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion and as a’c’onservative, I support your rights to free speech. However, as the webmaster of Blogging Tories (a private group), it is also my right(and responsibility) to disassociate myself (and others who have asked) from inflammatory bloggers such as yourself.”
Seems to me we have a case here of the “kettle calling the pot black”.
Horny Toad
I think this current incarnation of the conservative party is beginning to enjoy the many fruits of opposition. What a great job! You get to bitch constantly (don’t even have to make sense), you get free travel, no real work, and all followed by a hefty pension. I can see why a lackwit like Taylor would aspire to such a career. Who needs to be government when you can live like that?
“…you get free travel, no real work, and all followed by a hefty pension.”
Sorry – did somebody call?
Don
Are you implying that Taylor is an MP, cause I didn’t think that bloggers got free travel and a hefty pension. If so then let me be the first to call you an uninformed dumbass, if not then ignore the above statement.
Derrell: I said “aspire to such a career.” Taylor ran for, but lost, the CPC federal nomination in Kingston.
Derrel= silly, uniformed dumbass
Ya whatever Don, your comment still lacks a point relating to the topic.
Don’t feed the trolls.
Chretien at the press conference took great credit for ensuring Canadian troops were not coming back in body bags from Iraq. Two problems:
1) Before any decision had been made on Iraq, the government suddenly committed (to the surprise of the Canadian Forces) almost the whole of the available Canadian army to a new peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. This ensured that even if we did take part in Iraq in some fashion there would be very few potential Canadian bodies for the bags.
2) The Canadian position was not one of principled opposition to a war with Iraq. The Chretien line was that Canada would agree with whatever the UN Security Council decided. In other words Canada’s decision was placed in the hands of France and Russia–some independent policy or decision-making. In the end there was no UNSC vote on war, so Chretien could say the UN had not approved the war and Canada was thus justified in not taking part.
Quelle courage morale!
Mark
Ottawa
Nothing new about a big fish criminal brought to justice pointing to all the the good things he’s done in order to escape punishment.
We should let Jean Chretien off scot free if it is only the coffee fund he pilfered. Seems to me there was more than that however. Seems as though there were a wide range of huge money transfers and some having to do with Hotels and Golf courses were for indirect personal gain.
If before the Iraq war Chretien got a phone call from the big guys in France saying, *Pour Christ Sakes, Jean, keep that Bush bastard away from Iraq, we are making a killing in Iraqi oil, don’t let Bushie spoil dat for us eh?
Well Jean’s choice to avoid joining in with Bush may seem a little less noble..eh?
Poor Jean, hung out to dry. If he ends up a prune, it wouldn’t bother me. TG