39 Replies to “QOTW”

  2. Hey, he’s got a shirt, tie, jacket, and wavy hair…ransom-wear!
    The Laurentian elite need their payola for electoral support…
    Money for nothing, and the cheques are free! (Apologies to Dire Straits)
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  3. If Coyne is critical its an indication of the mood blu-libs toward shiny or one-trick pony.
    They are starting to express buyers remorse.

  5. The Liberal Cabal will continue to negotiate with Bombardier until Bombardier gets exactly what they want. Front man Trudeau may even do a few of his tricky moves for the photo-op while presenting them the big cheque.

  6. Coyne, the professional,” Little boy who cried wolf”. What an effin phoney blathering about an effin phoney.

  7. Coyne actually dares approach the threshold of criticzing the anointed one. He better be careful or someone will mistake him for a real journalist, not the hack he really is.

  8. Has the pony given us a good explanation yet why building airplanes is a good idea but producing the fuel is very bad. I hope this time Western Canada says no but I fear that we don’t have the leadership to put a stop to this nonsense.

  9. The real test is if the family owned shares are put on a common footing with regular shares. Otherwise, this amounts to a personal gift from the government to the Beaudwain and Bombardier families.
    Or, maybe the government’s funding will take ownership of shares with a preferred status, just like the one enjoyed by the two families.

  10. Oh that silly Andrew Coyne. Does he think that by finally grabbing some common sense we will forgive him for actually helping this moron get elected??
    Such elitist faux outrage.

  11. Right, the most outrageous thing about the permanent influx of public money into the company is that two families have effective control. A very basic condition is that a new independent management team should be appointed. If the families want a private company, then they shouldn’t list shares on the stock market.

  12. Turdeau is holding firm on his economic and business principles and will not grant the
    billion dollars until they change their corporate name to Eastjet or Ardier.

  13. If only Coyne would be in his columns more like Coyne is on his Twitter.
    His small tweet actions as of late seems like a guy who’s knee-deep in dissonance and wants to break free and leave the Scientology, er…MSM flock.

  14. What Hans and LizJ said. All this amounts to is the Lauretian Elites stroking each other. Coyne was for it before he was against it.

  15. Is Coyne actually starting to see the light after having his face buried so deeply up Trudeau’s rectum?

  16. The Desmarais mouth piece throws darts at the Beaudoin puppet. Ohhh edgey stuff.
    Canadian journolist micro-agression at it’s diminutive best.

  17. Coyne reminds me of that half wit Caroline Bennett.
    While lecturing the Catholics on their guilt, for the churches cooperation with government in the residential schools, the Dear Minister never gets asked;”So all liberals are then responsible for theft by Liberal Party of Canada?
    Adscam and that $40 million comes to mind.
    I support Bennett’s logic,a special ethical tax on every person who votedLiberal,from 1960 on.
    I distrust Coyne’s cynism, he is just playing C.Y.A.
    As even school children can recognize how vapid the Liberal Party dear Leader meme is,a career scribe might have to at least acknowledge that observation.
    Or who is gonna buy what he sells?

  18. Another point is that MSM headlines were always “Harper does [this or that]” but now that the Clown Prince has formed a government it’s “Ottawa does [this or that]”.

  25. In this case of corporate welfare, is the federal government negotiating terms that are in the best interests of Canadians, Quebecers, or themselves (see Adscam)? Considering the scale of infrastructure “investment” being planned and the past corruption of both Quebec and the federal LPC politicians the answer is obvious. So, if there’s a silver lining to be found, it’s that this is how the LPC destroys itself. They cannot resist the temptation to line theirs and theirs cronies pockets with taxpayer money.
    The other hypocritical aspect of this is that for the last couple years the Liberals and the media have basically said that enhanced TFSAs, income splitting and universal childcare are all but taking food out of the mouths of poor children. Remember Trudeau and prominent, big government economists and journalists saying they didn’t need or want these programs and attempting to wealth-shame working parents. If the government gives a billion dollars of taxpayer money to one of the wealthiest families in Canada then I don’t want to hear one more goddamn word about upper middle class greed (see CBCs recent article about RESP unfairness) If these people were promising to get rid of all subsidies except for those to the poorest Canadians then they’d have an argument. As it is progressives/academics only bitch and whine about every tax reduction for successful middle class families.

  26. *
    forget about airplanes… look to your life..
    “In one instance, it took seven years
    for officials to cotton on to the fact a
    single address had been used by
    at least 50 different applicants during
    overlapping time periods. Of the 50,
    seven became Canadian citizens.”
    *

  27. Coyne once paraphrased this sentiment, so true today as it was then.
    “Governments cannot pick winners but losers can pick governments.”
    The Australian perspective. Sound familiar? From 2008 so offered as additional evidence government never accepts their limitations, pivoting to cronies:
    “Having a minister for innovation and industry is antithetical to the notion of consumer choice and entrepreneurial risk taking. On the other hand, it is ideal for rent-seeking. It has been said that governments cannot pick winners but losers can pick governments. This has long been obvious in the market for tangible goods but Carr is also minister for intangibles – innovation and research. Policy here is to give more money to university research, but not teaching.
    Government intervention in innovation also does not work well. In a recent US study it was found that privately funded research was more valuable over time than government funded research. True the US government has fostered a lot of innovation but that is largely due to civilian application of military research and development and NASA. Innovation does not require a large cadre of research-trained university graduates. Better teaching at university, as opposed to more research, is likely to improve innovation outcomes.”
    The Rudd Government was elected to provide “new leadership” and “new ideas”. Yet it was well known that Kevin Rudd opposed “market fundamentalism” and supported “industry policy”. This is not new; it is a return to the bad old days of big government and state intervention in the economy.”
    Sound economic policy is inconsistent with interventionalist government. Government adds value by enforcing property rights and maintaining the rule of law.”
    All parties can take a lesson from that.
    http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7496

  28. It’s always fun to read Coyne’s pretend criticisms of anything the Liberals do.Just like many of us here became frustrated with Harper and criticized him but still remained loyal to the CPC, Coyne remains a true blue Liberal through and through, sharing a relative in Justin Trudeau’s half-sister.
    The numbers keep expanding on the potential loss of jobs if Bomb-a-deer is left hanging,started out as 1700, last figure I read was 70,000,which probably includes every ancillary job that can be remotely related to Bombardier’s existence.
    Bombardier will get the bailout,one way or another, it will just take time to figure out the optics,then the Liberal government will bail ’em out and be presented as heroes to the Canadian working man by the complicit media.
    Many of the replies I’ve received on media sites are of the ,”well you Westerners got lots of oil industry bailout,now it’s our turn”,and of course, the ever present,” it’s saving Canadian JOBS,dickhead”!
    Come Hell, high water, hurricane,pestilence,plague, war or famine,Bombardier,when begging to a Liberal government, will GET THE MONEY. Period.

  29. “sharing a relative in Justin Trudeau’s half-sister.”
    In the interest of fairness here, Coyne is a 1st cousin once removed from Trudeau’s half-sister.He is no relation to the Trudeaus whatsoever. One cannot be held responsible for who your 1st cousin pairs with, and Deb Coyne I’m sure never asked his permission to take up with PET.
    There is little evidence Deb Coyne and Jr are that close, he didn’t intervene in a Liberal nomination battle she lost in downtown Ottawa, otherwise she could have been in his cabinet. She is not even in the Liberal party now, having run for the Greens last time out.
    For what it is worth Coyne claimed to vote NDP last time, so hard to say what he is. Definitely not a CPC supporter though.

  30. Team Justin-Wynne shillin’ for Bombardier planes, trains cum electric automobiles?

  31. If AV Roe Malton had been located in Montreal we’d have built the Arrow, I’m sure

  34. the liberals care so much about canadian thats why they shut down private coal plants that employ thousands or even better yet the 450000 people whose jobs and livelyhood in ontario

  37. What is that phrase? Criticize the sin, but forgive the sinner.

  39. For what it’s worth, Coyne has no credibility with me. His blind support for Liberals and their leadership before the election, in spite of all obvious reasons to condemn them, and now this. How GD stoopid does he think we are?

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