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Kate, this probably will not be in the media tomorrow about the American Count Iggy’
He attended an Ontario Hockey league play-off game in Mississauga, Ontario tonight, there were about 4000 fans from Niagara and Mississauga present in the arena. He was introduced to the fans, waved, bowed etc. and was booed by the whole crowd for over two minutes. We are not sure how long he stayed at the game afterwards. Mississauga according to the media is supposed to be a Liberal stronghold !!!.
Well, it’s been reported by Open Ice Hockey reporter Nathan Dearing. Over at the Ignatieff campaign bus, the big media tweeters remained silent.
Update – Well, here’s a brand new Canadian Press story on the game. No Liberal leaders reported in attendance.
Morning Update – Confirmation from the V.P. Marketing of the Mississauga St. Mike’s Majors …
And this absolute howler from CP reporter Steve Rennie, traveling with the Ignatieff campaign.
Final Update: Now being covered by SunTV, captured to youtube by SDAMatt!
Now being carried by CTV and CBC. SDA gets results!
I was lucky enough to attend the World Hockey championships in Halifax a few years ago. Harper appeared in the middle of one game, came down, sat in the seats, got an ovation, and had a steady stream of people coming by to shake his hand.
He was wearing a suit.
FedUp >
Thanks for that. I didn’t know, never watch hockey, used to play lots though.
It doesn’t surprise me that Harper would enjoy a game every so often and try to keep it low key. The mark of a genuine person.
WalterF at 7:13 PM: “…Iggy, in his abuse of Canadian parliament, has been found in contempt of the people of Canada.”
Too bad there are no thumbs up symbols I can give ya’. This will have to do:
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And this one’s for you Jess. Your little Liberal/Dipper ruse hasn’t worked. Canadians can’t be fooled so easy, especially by fools.
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Booing is elemental, I’ll grant you that.
Am I sorry the crowd showed Iggy the door? Not really! But I wouldn’t boo anyone. It’s a bully tactic, especially if it’s 4000 to one!!!! (Just think if PM Harper was the recipient of 4000 boos!)
MND, your comment is bang-on: . When you’re booed by 4,000 people in a liberal stronghold, don’t GRIN. Weep or at least frown; cringe. Be real, man.
That’s Iggy’s main problem: He’s not real. He’s the Rosedale bagmen’s puppet and he accepted the gig.
I’m not clear he’ll slink off to Boston. I figure he and Szuszanna will hightail it outta here first-class all the way, with the biggest smiles on their faces you’ve ever seen. As they taxi down the runway, we’ll see two middle fingers held aloft: So long, suckers. ‘Nice gig if you can get it … Hahvahd, here we come … good riddance, Canada.
Your return to Boston, Iggy and Szuszie, our gain.
Jess:
“He will won’t go down in history as the only PM found in contempt of Parliament inthe history of Canada – and in the history of the Commonwealth – as Harper will”.
A good line but not quite correct.
The government of Stephen Harper was defeated on a motion of non-confidence, which was framed around a description the its contempt for parliament. The actual report from the committee investgating the contempt allegation was tabled for parliament on Mon Mar 21. Parliament never considered, or voted on the report of the committee, the Liberals decided instead to defeat the government on the non-confidence motion.
Look at Hansard for the week Mar 21 t0 26, Iggy is talking about a government “about to be found in contempt” two days before the actual vote.
The similarities with Hollywood western is sriking: “We will guarantee you a trial, before we hang you”
The end result is that this government was never defeated on a formal motion of contempt of parliament, because it was never put forward.
Forget the record, it never happened.
Batb>
“It’s a bully tactic, especially if it’s 4000 to one!!!!”
Not to belabour the point Batb, but that poor little soul you’re defending from the bullies, can and has bullied a million or more Canadians with the stroke of a pen. Without even being in full charge of parliament.
Let’s save the day when the poor dear actually has control of the country and decides to lash out his personal ideologies with the full enforcement of the law.
#1) We know he’s a liar.
#2) We know he whips MP votes.
#3) His party was scandalized and run out of town for fraud when they last had power.
#4) He can’t answer a simple question with a strait answer.
The 4000 to 1 bullied underdog defence is playing a naive game into their hands.
Ignatieff giving interview/presser about it claims the booing was because they put him on-screen at an exciting point in the game in a close match and that any politician would have been booed for interrupting their game viewing.
Knight 99, it couldn’t have happened to a better person — Iggy being booed by 4000 Canadians, in a Liberal stronghold, to boot. I just wouldn’t do it!!!!
But I won’t vote Librano. I’ve already voted Conservative. And I’ll rejoice if they get their thuggish, entitled asses whooped — and when Iggy and Szuszanna depart Canada.
I detest the Liberal$ and what they’ve done to Canada.
batb >
Right on!
I was at my local polling station for the early vote, the first hour it opened on Friday. All done.
In this CTV clip Iggy or the translater, you pick, call Hazel Mcallion the Mayor of St. Catherines:
Mississauga Matt…are you on this before it’s pulled?
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20110424/ignatieff-booed-hockey-110424/20110424?s_name=election2011
Martin — Very important set of details. That is not what the media tell us. Thanks for posting.
“Forget the record, it never happened”
Methinks that Jess gets his information from the CBC and regurgitates it in what he/she considers a clever fashion.
Making unsubstantiated claims and just plain makin’ stuff up might bring approving nods and congratulatory high fives on the lefty blogs but around here repeating stupid falsehoods usually results in the offender being given a verbal spanking.
Jess, they could have passed a motion stating that Harper was a green skinned space babe with the hots for Spock, but that wouldn’t necessarily mean it was true….
I didn’t know the Marxists and Leftists at the “Gaurdian” were our friends. I also seem to recall them picking Iggy to be the surefire “soon to be PM” after his LPC coronation.
Jess>
Some rag piece written by Dimitry Anastakis and Jeet Heer aka” The Marxist and anti Semite” does not qualify as anything factual.
I liked the full blown insinuation:
“They’ve accused him of overspending in the last election and have even gotten the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to raid the Conservative party’s headquarters to find incriminating evidence.”
Wow! Now what became of this so called evidence? Hmmm neglected to mention any findings, what?
I really liked this line:
“The same goes for most of his party, which this week accused Elections Canada of a partisan witch-hunt, being in bed with the Liberals and the media and any other number of tin-foil-hat conspiracies”.
Yawn, typical lefty spin when cornered with the facts, the CBC/ CTV bias is coming to an end. The Liberals are going down and there’s not a thing you can do about it. Their days of wreaking havoc on Canadian society will be decided by Canadians in a week’s time.
Keep up that crazy activist fighting spirit though, most of us don’t watch the boob tube anymore and a little jersey shore online parody is always good for a laugh.
I was at a hockey game last nite and a booing broke out.
Conspiculously it was booing for one politician but applause for another – hockey fans do have some sophistication.
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Jess:
The Harper governmen being found guilty by a committee, is but step two in parliament finding of contempt. The committee was presupposed to bring such a verdict, without seeing any evidence. This committee was stactked with opposition MPs.
The actual report, tabled by the committee, was never considered by parliament. If it was so important, parliament would have yearned to dicuss it, but the fact is Mar 26 was an opposition day, and the Liberals were determined to defeat the government. A motion was presented,.
and the house voted on it, but it was a general motion saying the government was in contempt, etc, but not a separate motion.
The government was defeated for sure, but the motion, of contempt of parliament, was never brought to a vote. The Liberals had a choice to either vote on the committee report, or vote non-confidence, and they chose the latter. The record sounds good, but this government was never found to be in contempt of parliament.
jess at 10:56 PM, my dear child, you do realize that Guardian article you point to is 3 years old (to the day), don’t you? That was long before Libs and Dippers decided to try the “contempt of the Canadian electorate” trick.
And besides, why would you think referring to a left wing British rag would have any influence on the discussion here? They’re no different than our own Flop and Flail, Red Star, Canadian Broadcorping Castration, etc., etc., all of whom are becoming more and more strident and hysterical as the Liberal Government prize seems to slip further and further out of reach.
Either shut up, jess, or get your facts straight.
Simple.
Jess: “Who cares if they booed him at a hockey game?
He till won’t go down in history as the only PM found in contempt of Parliament inthe history of Canada – and in the history of the Commonwealth – as Harper will.”
You are correct Jess, Iggy Pop will indeed not go down in History as a PM….at all.
Montgomery Burns: Are they saying “Boo” or “Boo-urns”??? 🙂
I was saying “booooo Harper! I love Iggy!”