When it comes to equal opportunity slagging regarding financial matters, Andrew Coyne is as non-partisan as it gets.
Coyne says:
Altogether, these actual, honest-to-goodness tax cuts sum to about $9-billion, the bulk of it focused on the bottom tax brackets, where it will do the least good — in terms of raising productivity, I mean. The rest of what the Liberals call “tax cuts” are mostly for tax credits, ie spending programs by another name: $465 million for an “Improved Working Income Tax Benefit,” $397-million for an “Improved Employment Credit and Refundable Disability Credit,” and fully $2.9-billion for an entirely new Universal Child Benefit, on top of all the existing child benefits.
It’s not remotely “revenue neutral,” in other words. The Liberals have used the carbon tax to fund their spending ambitions. The productivity agenda has once again been ignored.
As anyone with a brain had already concluded, it isn’t about carbon, it’s about Canadians paying for a Liberal election platform.
Cheers,
lance
Exactly right. It may be revenue neutral for low income Canadians, but that’s about it. Half our income in taxes, and they want MORE??? Lots of child care programs to fund, doncha know.
This is dangerously stupid, but there are enough idiots out there who will fall for it.
Yes indeed !
In addition the added complication of processing “Tax Credits” makes for more work for revcan thus justifying continued expansion of the civil bureaucracy.
Problem is that between the MSMs and the uninformed and uncaring with so many people unwilling to connect the dots … there is going to be the usual uncritical and undeserved support for the malarkey the LIberals spew.
The old LIberal game of buying votes with your wealth will continue.
Revenue Neutral would have been there being no change in the aount of cash coming into the Treasury.
This just reinforces the “middleman” aspect of Ottawa. Iportant for the to get the money so they can redistribute, and not always in the positive sense that redistribution is often used.
They took a simple idea, changing the relative costs of goods that have carbon in them and screwed it up to be another tax and spend program.
Sigh
Lance,
As you have already pointed out, “Anyone with a brain had already concluded…”
The thing is, most Liberals don’t even have half a brain.
Another Liberal rippoff.
Watching CBC News live. On the screen it reads…
LIBERAL “GREEN SHIFT”
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion answers questions from reporters.
From CTV Newsnet, under Dion it reads…
LIBERALS UNVEIL ‘GREEN SHIFT’
The spin is well under way. The MSM well do its best to avoid using the term “tax” because of its pejorative connotations. “Green shift” should be thrown onto the scrap heap of other senatically-driven terms for taxes such as “premium” and my favourite from right here in Toronto to Mayor Mao’s taxes: “revenue tools”
Well you know … sometimes “Shift Happens” !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuNAL5rGMo8
Just hope to God he never gets the chance to implement it.
Oh, and by the way, more hypocrisy: Notice how the MSM attacked the Tories on Dion’s carbon tax scam scheme by collectively saying, “How can the Tories attack the plan when they haven’t even seen it yet?” But they align themselves with the Libs on their accusations of a secret Tory “hidden agenda”. The burden of proof in both instances is placed on the Tories.
I think “Green Shaft” is more descriptive of what that weasel is up to.
God help us all if he gets elected. Montana is looking mighty enticing these days.
Another CTV poll in the midst of going horribly wrong:
Are you willing to pay a carbon tax if your income taxes are reduced?
Yes 331 votes (35 %)
No 622 votes (65 %)
Total Votes: 953
OMMAG and others. Have you been out of the country for so long that you haven’t seen the current “conservative” government spending more money than any gov’t in history?
Have you not seen the tiny and inefficient “targeted” tax incentives for just about every demographic they feel they need to appeal to?
Or, once again, is all of that just fine with you provided it;s your little pals doing it?
Yeah, should have known – none of this is about facts, policy or actual results – all about petty partisan politics.
Carry on.
Dion’s plan is a typical Liberal election strategy; he’s buying the vote, with two tactics.
The first, is the promise of money, money, and more money, to the voters. How is he going to get this money? He moves on to the next tactic, which is emotional: Guilt and Sin. He’s going after The Evil Corporations and The Polluters.
But wait. CO2 emissions aren’t pollution. Doesn’t he know that pollution and emissions are two different things and require different technologies to deal with them? Ah well, pollution is the better term to bring up notions of Sin and Guilt.
So, Dion gets the money from the Corporations. He utterly, utterly ignores that this extra tax will reduce their ability to INVEST in Canada, INVEST in any new technology to reduce their ..er..pollution. Oh, and he ignores that the tax will simply be, as usual, passed on to the consumer.
“The long-term plan calls for gradually increased federal taxes on fossil fuels, including coal, propane, natural gas, oil and diesel. It would gradually push up costs for a wide range of consumer needs, particularly home heating.”
The price of anything produced by using energy, which is..everything..will increase. The price of food, the price of heating, the price of clothing, the price of ..everything. And companies will simply relocate to China and India.
“According to the plan released today, a two-earner family with two children and a combined income of $20,000 will receive a benefit of nearly $2,400 when the plan is fully implemented in four years.” (Toronto Star).
Tell me, how many two-earner families are there with two children, living on a combined total annual income of 20,000?
And the reduction in income taxes he refers to will be totally, completely, absolutely eaten up by the increased costs in, not only heating, but all consumer goods. All goods will increase in costs.
“The Liberal Green Shift (plan) will accomplish multiple goals: it will make real progress in the fight against the climate change crisis while encouraging energy efficiency in the face of skyrocketing energy costs,” Dion said. “And it will make our economy more competitive, while helping to decrease poverty.”
Dear god, how will it deal with climate change? How? How does a tax on fossil fuels, which will increase the costs of all consumption, how will it ‘fight’ climate change? How?
How will it make our economy more competitive? How? It effectively will drive production out of Canada. It will reduce the ability of Canadians to purchase goods.
And – importantly, vitally, it prevents any possibility whatsoever of Canadians developing an Investor Class. A class of people who earn and KEEP enough money, beyond living from paycheque to paycheque so that they can INVEST this money in developing Canadian industry.
Canada has been so highly taxes that we have been unable to develop our own Investor Class. Result? We depend on foreign investment. Totally. Our new technologies are invented in foreign labs; we can’t fund them. Our new products are invented elsewhere; we just copy and market them. Our new factories are funded by foreign investors. We can’t do it. And this Liberal plan cuts deeply into any hope of ever developing an Investor Class.
You know what this plan of Dion’s should be called? He calls it The GreenShift.
Take out the ‘f’. The GreenShi*t Plan. That’s its real name.
So the liberals are going to take more of my money and give it back to me..????
Green Shaft gets my vote! If Dion thinks that this will not effect the lower income, here a little news on the side: I “heard it through the grape vine” that Safeway will no longer be stocking potatoes (at least in Kelowna) because there is NO profit! Dion is such a useless tool.
well said ET
but make no mistake, Dion and the liberals know that the “Green Shi*t” is all about anarchy and reducing Canada to third-world status
because carbon taxes will not be revenue neutral and the cost of everything will be impacted, jobs will disappear to never return along with entrepreneurs and innovation
DION IS A MARXIST and his “Green Shi*t” is an effort to regulate every aspect of our lives
if there is climate change it is because of solar flares – how will the destruction of Canada’s economy prevent solar flares?
I have never heard of such fu*#in’ insanity – a “Green Shi*t” ??? – revenue neutral my ass
when did Canada become a communist country? because that’s what this is all about – the “green” agenda is communism
Did anybody catch Tondra McCharles (Torstar) on Duffy last night?
The rest of the panel challenged her on the idea that carbon taxes, especially the “revenue neutral” kind, actually make people make “greener” choices and thus encourage alternative fuel development. She started to say, “well, people will pay more, but take the money they get back to …” and then stropped dead in her tracks. It was priceless, and shows that many have not thought this through at all.
Dion’s plan has three main political flaws (whether one likes it or not, that is where the rubber meets the road):
1. Dion is on record as being against carbon taxes, and this will be replayed over and over again, where he will be painted as a true Grit, who flip flops and is leader of a party that is famous for not keeping promises.
2. Nobody believes this renenue neutral argument (certainly not Andrew Coyne), and even if it’s true, changes happen on a marginal and macro level. If the macro is unchanged (the “T” part of the national income equation), how can behaviour possibly be affected? More importantly, he has placed the tax on heating oil, where people have little choice to change, and the most vulnerable, lower income Canadians, simply don’t have the means to change out their furnace to higher efficiency models. Additionally, unless those details are elsewhere, Dion hasn’t explained how this will help the environment – how much will consumption of fossil fuels be reduced, and how will this tax “shift” truly encourage development of clean fuel technologies (Pigouvian theories are just that, they have big problem setting the right “price” on externalities).
3. Now Tories have seen many of the details, so they can pick them apart, bit by bit, and can outflank Dion by introducing their own green plan, by leveraging of Dion’s and gauging Canadians reaction to tweak their own. Of course, Layton has different ideas and now has been handed issue that is traditionally NDP strength to chip away at Grit support and divide the left of centre vote.
OK, that’s more than three, but you get the picture. Dion’s lack of political instincts seems to be showing. He’s shooting the works for a theoretical argument (Pigou) that is frankly unproven in the real world (witness Europe’s experience with rising fuel prices and carbon “trading”),and will likely now be picked apart, if initial reaction is any barometer in the future, particularly at election time.
Seems to me it will be easy for Harper and Layton to outflank Dion on this one.
sorry I put this in the wrong thread before. but the math is simpler than one thinks.
time to tax , and tax and carbon tax some more.
“dat is not fair” Borat Dion.
dis tax will be fair but new distribution
da burden will be to da drivers. people dat live hin rural areas will pay more, dos dirty Halbertans will pay more. dos pipples in sas cat chewon will pay more, pipple dat live hin cold places will pay more. but pipple dat har in trono hand montreal will pay less. dat pipples dat traditionally vote liberal will pay less and dos dat vote torie (spit) will pay more. how can dat be not fair.
Is there any reason that the media and the opposition parties NEVER EVER EVER acknowledge that ALBERTA already has a carbon tax ($15 per tonne) for all industrial polluters AND Alberta already has a carbon cap and trade system within Alberta???
So, no need for Dion to impose any of his crazy plans on Alberta IF the real motive is for the environment. No need to duplicate plans.
OOPS. Then there goes Dion’s Alberta cash cow – remember how he called Alberta the cash cow for Canada – how the rest of Canada has the right to MILK US????
So, any ideas on how Dion can fund his Marxist social engineering programs without Alberta’s money????
this is and has been bothering me ever since dions tax shift policy has been voiced.
if its to be “revenue neutral” (dream on sucker),as he claims THEN WHY DOES ANYTHING HAVE TO CHANGE ? in other words the present taxation level seems to be adequate to meet the demands of the tax and spend liberals. anyone naive to not being able to see the “shift” from one pocket to the other is blind.
POS proposal.
No, the Liberals are going to take money from middle income, tax paying families and give it to low income tax receivers . According to Dion, the carbon tax is designed to punish behaviour they want less of and encourage behaviour they want more of. So by the way the structured the tax cuts they must want more low income, tax receiving families and fewer successful middle class and high income families.
If you look at the income tax brackets, the middle income is considered anything over $38,000 and “high income” is $123,184. So any income between those numbers (38,000 to 123,000) gets a miserly 1% income tax reduction. The Liberals figure that a two income $60,000 family will save about $1300 on income.
Now anyone that thinks that their bills for such luxuries as food and heating will only rise 1% ($1300)is delusional.
The carbon tax will be cumulative along the supply chain. At each stage it will grow as the producers, the transporter, the middlemen and distributors have to recoup the higher cost. There is the obvious things like food and heating. But not only direct cost of energy taxes but also the inevitable increases in labor costs as employees will need a pay increases. Municipalities will have to raise taxes to cover public transport, heating rec facilities, snow removal and most other functions so property taxes will rise. Ditto for provincial taxes for highway repair, snow removal, health care …Then add in all other consumer products like clothing, electronics etc. The tax increase will hit everything , absolutely everything.It will be like a snowball rolling downhill getting will get bigger and bigger.
A snowball…scratch that …. it will be an avalanche.
IF there’s any sanity left in this country the little Green Man/Mouse Dion will NEVER get a chance to implement this utterly stupefying shifty plot.
The Conservatives had better use some of their advertising money to explain just how negatively this will be to the economy across the board, including personal.
It’s a tax grab like no other. It’s been dressed up in a GREEN disguise which any clear thinking person can see right through.
Dion is proving to be the Liberals worst nightmare, he’ll finish them off, not even the spinners in the MSM can save them.
He and Iggy can go shift in their hats and play Puffin. Bobby Rae will be having a laugh, biding his time, hope he has a lot of it.
IF there’s any sanity left in this country the little Green Man/Mouse Dion will NEVER get a chance to implement this utterly stupefying shifty plot.
The Conservatives had better use some of their advertising money to explain just how negatively this will be to the economy across the board, including personal.
It’s a tax grab like no other. It’s been dressed up in a GREEN disguise which any clear thinking person can see right through.
Dion is proving to be the Liberals worst nightmare, he’ll finish them off, not even the spinners in the MSM can save them.
He and Iggy can go shift in their hats and play Puffin. Bobby Rae will be having a laugh, biding his time, hope he has a lot of it.
On a brighter note, the CPC has been given a tremendous gift. They now know what the centerpiece of the LPC election platform – a massive tax grab and a minuscule tax cut.
So really, all the CPC has to do is meet or beat the minuscule tax cut and not charge a carbon tax. Or a reverse of the Dion plan – big tax cut and an annual but small environmental fee. Then unveil a common sense green project that will be useful even after AGW is revealed as a hoax.
This just reinforces the “middleman” aspect of Ottawa. Stephen 11:47
Then you need to read this:
http://naftatrustclaims.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/stedronsky_letter_11.21.pdf
It says it all for whatever government of the day is, including the “Cons”, on the middleman aspect of all governments who lose their reason to being “there”.
Tory Watcher … re Have you been out..?
FYI – I am painfully aware of the Spending and tax policies that we are getting from the Conservative government. That IN NO WAY justifies an even Worse proposition!
Are you stuck on stupid?
Although she said the timing to unveil her green plan 1 day before Dion’s was just coincidental…Don’t believe a word of it. Elizabeth May is working as a tag team with Dion to the detriment of her own party I might add. She is eyeing a cabinet post in a Dion government which she would probably at least get the Environment portfolio.
Her plan is designed to be comparable to the Dion plan but on a “negative” light to the average sheeple shmuck: Let me explain:
– She wants to tax carbon at 50$’s per ton compared to Dion’s lesser 40$’s per ton.
– She clearly stated that she would directly tax gas at the pumps at .06 per litre…Dion said no tax gas increase.
She also stated broad tax cuts but little detail.
The two bullet points above are what her and Dion are betting on baiting the gullible.
There’s also a reason why Dion chose to use “Green” (In green color of course) in his “Green Shift” slogan. He is using it for their voter base to subconsciously make them connect the well established perception that the Green Party are the experts on the environment. If Dion’s plan is based on the same idea as Liz May’s BUT LESS PAINFUL (Lower tax per ton of carbon + no tax increase at the pump), they will likely jump on the Liberal plan.
I am surprized the Green Party is not all over their leader over this. Unless Dion promised to more than just Dizzy Lizzy.
Canada needs a tax revolt like no other
Canadians need to get screaming mad at their politicians and the MSM who are trying to sell us this insanity
I will ask again, WHEN DID CANADA BECOME A COMMUNIST COUNTRY?
sum is not a verb.
Brad asks:
“I will ask again, WHEN DID CANADA BECOME A COMMUNIST COUNTRY?”
It’s not an entire communist country yet. It started with a certain Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1970’s…It has since spread from the east of the country with Quebec being the absolut Marxism elite.
The more you move west the least you find the desease except before you splash into the pacific ocean you go through one of it’s headquaters which is Vancouver. The 2 other headquaters are Montreal and of course the head office: Toronto.
I love how David McGuinty says the AG will have the power to enforce the revenue neutrality aspect of the plan. How can that be? She has no power to enforce anything – only to make recommendations. 2 days ago, Ontario’s provincial watchdog slammed McGuinty’s brother, who of course if the premier of Ontario. The premier dismissed the call by the provincial watchdog to implement his recommendations.
From CBC Newsworld this morning…
LIBERAL “GREEN SHIFT”
From CBC Newsworld now…
LIBERAL GREEN SHIFT
Quotations removed.
Will the CBC – in fairness to the Tories on this isuue – now remove the quotation marks from “tax trick” whenever it’s referenced? Or will it remain? The spin stops here!
The more you move west the least you find the desease except before you splash into the pacific ocean you go through one of it’s headquaters which is Vancouver. The 2 other headquaters are Montreal and of course the head office: Toronto.
Forget it, sport, these guys have branch plants located in every provincial legislature, even Redmonton, as we speak. The various governments are all in it together, singing from the same song sheet – the “Internationale.”
Soon we will see the “Little Red Book” and unisex “Mao” suits and loud speakers in the streets to remind us of our duty to the state.
The fact is that Dion is proposing to lay a massive new tax upon citizens who are taxed to exhaustion. He then adds that it will be ‘revenue neutral’ by way of his soft promises to give money back through various back door schemes. Most to benefit his other commitments, like wealth transfer in his ‘war against poverty.’
The tax, if it is implemented, is guaranteed to always be there as usual.
His various schemes to give the money back are not guaranteed to always be there.
This is nothing more than another Liberal tax grab, only this time on an unprecedented, massive basis, in order to fund his massive spending commitments equaling $80b.
But at least now he’s committed to an election platform that the Tories can hopefully demolish him on. Liberals are well known for their tax grabs. This perception will play well against Dion’s Green Shaft.
How much will the admministration and policing of this tax grab cost?
Remember – the Gun Registry??? From $2 million to $2 BILLION and counting.
Most of the costs were for ADMINISTRATION!!!!
Most of the costs were administration?
how about all of the costs.
all this and they will register your Black and Decker Glue gun and issue you a sticker so you can carry it from garage to house without a sticky incident.
The way I see it, Dion is, in true Liberal fashion, engaged in buying his way back to power.
He’s taxing large industries for their energy use. This money is not being spent in developing new technologies to enable cleaner energy use. No, he’s giving it to his voters.
In particular, he’s giving it to the lowest income people, who are most likely found among the new immigrants who don’t understand what’s going on; and those in the areas of Canada moving into unemployment. He wants their vote.
Additionally, he’s using Alberta’s industries to buy him votes in Quebec (which uses hydro or non-emitting power) and in the Maritimes and the collapsing auto industry areas of Ontario.
The fact that the cost to the consumer of ALL goods, including food, clothing, heat, hydro, and all goods, will increase – he can lay the blame for that, when it comes..well, on the usual, on the US, the Americans.
The fact that it will cause industries to leave Canada – he’ll lay the blame on someone else.
The fact that the young will leave Canada to get more productive jobs elsewhere…
He has no agenda or plan to develop the technology to clean up the environment. Nothing. No money for it. No plan.
By the way, if you want to check out the Conservative Plan, it’s called Turning The Corner and parts can be found at
http://www.ecoaction.gc.ca
Check it out.It deals specifically with targets to reduce emissions, and ways to comply. It also deals with pollution. They are also working on the technology.
How many people know that the federal govt provided 115 million for over 300 hybrid buses in Toronto?
And biofuel devt (4 million in agriculture; 1.5 billion over 9 years for renewable alternatives to gasoline and diesel fuel…and there’s more.
An enormous focus on water cleanup, including the great lakes, major rivers, water pollution controls in many cities, etc.
These are all specific actions. Not words. And not about ‘we’ll tax you and then give some of you some money’. These are specific actions in cleaning up the envt.
So – what is going on with Dion? Is he really locked in a seminar room and doesn’t know what the real world is like?
et. low income people put little or nothing into the socialist hell hole we call canada and of course the damn commie libs only want to control all individual freedom. when all our freedom is taken how many canadians will fight to take it back? zero. f*cking depressing.
Jim Travers was just on Adler predictably trying to put a positive spin on The Green Shifty by saying that Canadians realize that energy is getting more expensive anyway so they might as well buy in to the slimy Liberal plan and save the planet while they’re at it.
How in good conscience can they (the MSM types) want this goober Dion in power?
I guess I answered my own question….they have no conscience.
This whole plan is a joke. No way that a smart person will buy into this farce. If by some chance Dion does win the next election and brings in this economy killer. I hope that the premiers of Saskatchewan and Alberta bring in a clear referendum question like “Do you want to separate from Canada? Yes or No”. Then on the next day declare nationhood. Let them freeze in the dark.
Leftard wingnuts drive me nuts. My wife and I work very hard for our money and they want to screw us out of more and give us back nothing and call it revenue neutral. Only an absolute metally challenged delusional person could dream this up and think that it will work. I’m not a religious person, but lord all mighty help us.
Hope and shift , cost ………
one vote , plus tax , lots and lots of tax .
And all this because carbon does what? It is what we are and how we are powered: We as animals, and also our machines. Carbon is burned – combined with oxygen to produce heat (energy) for we are carbon-based life forms.
The product of all combustion is CO2.
Enter the myth: Carbon dioxide forces temperature because it is a so-called “greenhouse gas”.
Well, it is if you are prepared to accept the inexact and purposly misleading concept of greenhouse gasses – but its influence is limited to the extent that 20ppmv in the atmosphere ‘catches’ all the Earth’s re-radiated energy it is capable of. Adding more CO2 does essentially nothing, except catch what radiation it can somewhat closer to the radiating surface. It’s the Laws of Physics – and unless these Carbon Taxers can modify Natural Laws to suit their purposes (all nefarious, sez I) we have nothing to worry about on the climate front.
We do have to worry about where these scoundrels are trying to lead us.
Real science does not support their theory, but their propaganda would have us believe otherwise.
There is a shortage of liquid fuels – brought on by poor management and “protection of the Environment”. What portion of the oil and gas bearing sediments of North America is available for exploration and development? The USA has some sort of restriction on both exploration and development on well over 70% of potentially productive areas.
The real problem lies in this difficult access which is political and not technical. Trying to frighten the population into not using the new demon Carbon to cover political incompetence that has caused the problem may be, from the point of view of a politician and his bureaucrats, a valid manipulation of the gullible – but it is not a solution.
Dion’s “revenue neutral” carbon tax has no basis in science or economics. Natural laws that govern both cannot be influenced by “political will” or any other ill-advised fantasy the political and bureaucratic classes may invent.
Ultimately it is we the people who will suffer from this gross mismanagement – to be kind – or this monumental deceit – to speak plainly.
It is time to rise up and face this pervasive insanity with resolve and with reason, before it is too late. Sadly, when the harried wage earner connects his pocket-book pain with this unsupportable fantasy and declares “enough” the manipulators may have already won.
This ‘plan’ has nothing to do with the environment or climate change, it is a socialist wealth transfer scheme from ‘the wealthy’ to ‘the poor’. (bear in mind that ‘wealthy’ starts at $38,000/year/household.)
Angry’s conclusion: “just new cash flow for a Liberal government”.
Socialist Dion’s “Green Shift” is a numbers racket.
It’s Citoyen Dion’s version of the Librano$! Same old same old Ad$Cam Party with a helping heaping of $ocialism’s pyramid scheme.
Angry crunches the numbers.
Citoyen Dion is Da Boss now; da prof is da poof. Quote: Wad’s a cubble billion$?
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“Working through the carbon tax numbers”
“Is this why we don’t see figures for Years 1, 2 and 3, just 4? The Liberals didn’t want us to see that they are assuming there is no change in fuel consumption, just new cash flow for a Liberal government?”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/267025.php
The CTV Poll only uses cookies….On Your Marks, Get Set…VOTE!
This is what I mean when I say vote for the LIberals if you want the Nation to collapse as fast as possible. The ideas here expressed by Dion’s Liberals on phoney baloney carbon taxes is madness on top of a pyramid of retardation. How to destroy you econo0my in 2 months is a good introduction to this cash grab.
da green chiff doan hads moneys to vogues wid moneys, bud prr pipples loose many carbons wisht brodupe free moneys voar dem. Nawall dough. Manys quantify voar improvised underlayment credit, hailong wid revenge neuter.
foat green shitti. foat librl.
This average Canadian says HELL NO to a Dion Carbon Tax!
latest figures on the CTV CT poll
Are you willing to pay a carbon tax if your income taxes are reduced?
Yes
3314 votes (38 %)
No
5449 votes (62 %)
Total Votes: 8763
Citoyen Dion is no longer a crap&trader?
Cliche Meister B.C. Neufeld said: “”They really are not actually taking the bull by the horns,”.
But the MSM/CanPress waxes:
The MSM sets up the “epic”:
“Dion sets table for epic policy battle with $15.4 billion carbon tax plan”
Here is Citoyen Dion, The Character Actor:
“But he’s also triggering a debate over character.”
Here is Citoyen Dion, no longer leading from his rear, aka MoseyOn Donkey Dion:
“Dion cast himself Thursday as a bold, visionary leader with the courage to do the right thing.”
Here is Citoyen Dion, aka Napoleon Dion (all 4’5″) vs Da Bully:
“By contrast, he characterized Prime Minister Stephen Harper as a bully who is spreading lies about the Liberal proposal and indulging in juvenile attack ads rather than engage in an honest, thoughtful debate about the most serious crisis facing the planet.”
Here is Citoyen Dion, aka La Jalousie:
“”They say much more about Stephen Harper’s leadership than they do about me or my ideas.””
Here is Citoyen Dion revolving, er evolving:
“”Dion, who used to advocate the same kind of cap and trade system, allowed that his views on the matter have “evolved.””
(Ad nauseam)
http://tinyurl.com/64ek8o