During last Thursday’s session in the House of Commons, world-opinion-channeler Michael Ignatieff, who apparently believes that the opinions of those in the rest of the world should be one of Canadians’ primary concerns, opened Question Period with his usual internationalist name-dropping: “Mr. Speaker, six Nobel laureates are calling on this government to put the environment on the G20 agenda. The Mexican president and the UN Secretary-General called for the same thing here in Ottawa a few weeks ago.”
He was just getting started. In his very next question, this one about the cost of the summit, the great citizen-of-the-world jetted in even more international opinion: “Even France is saying that the costs of this summit are getting out of control, and France knows something about extravagance. Its foreign minister is making jokes about the lake…”
Stephen Harper addressed the cost issue, then added:
“As for extravagance in France, I would not know about that, but perhaps the Leader of the Opposition, at his home in Provence, could tell us all about it.”
“As for extravagance in France, I would not know about that, but perhaps the Leader of the Opposition, at his home in Provence, could tell us all about it.”
/rimshot
Touché.
Applique de Coup de graze
Ha…would be funny…if it weren’t political bickering funded by the tax payer, and if Stephen Harper weren’t in France on Friday (at least his traveling personal stylist isn’t publicly funded anymore).
Oh, and if that god-awful, ridiculous rendition of a lake were too bad an idea to be true.
Oh wait…she her flight still is.
Steve-o will be here all week. Don’t forget your waitresses!
It is so great to at last have a Prime Minister who isn’t pretentious, who has a serious mien about him, because he’s aware he’s there to do a job, not to be a clown or a buffoon like so many before him.
Leave the buffoonery to the others (like T or BTJ)
That’s not political bickering, that is Iggy telling all the free spending Liberal bureaucrats to smarten up. Who do people think planned this? Who spends money on duplicating what is there? True they should have had some of the stuff vetoed but as the Liberals can’t get elected with the media in their corner I guess they need the civil service to give it a go.
Eat cake, everyone.
Right…arguing over a replica of a lake at an overpriced political gathering isn’t bickering. Why did I ever think otherwise? :S
Hmmmmnnnn….Cake..arghaaaaa..
Homer
Baaa-wooooooom!
(If Bill D. Cat can make a snare sound, I can make a pedaled tympani…)
Every now and then our P.M. will be unable to resist an opportunity to snap off a good one.
In this, he rarely disappoints.
French weapons for sale; never fired only dropped once.
The civil service does the planning, not the political parties. Final approval rests with the government. Governments do not go through line by line. There are upgrades to police equipment, communication equipment etc. Ont. needs money pithed away in it as it no longer knows how to make it. Tourism is a big industry, not as big as illegal cigarettes but big.
Who believes in big government? Who has hired the most civil servants in the last two decades? How many good civil service, union toting Conservatives do you know? I knew about 2% and I was one of them.
Canadian like me:
“… this summit … could have been oh so Canadian …”
Zap! Who is writing Iggys questions? Nothing like lobbing a big fat juicy pitch into a guy who can read the seams on a fastball…..the difference between thinking you are clever and being clever.
I would love to see a photo of the Iggiot’s face when Harper lobbed that one.
Like we care what the Mexican President has to say. This guys country is a poster child for screwed up and he is running around tell everyone what to do. Last I heard they were cutting peoples hearts out in Mexico.
Even Canadians are saying that the cost of this summit is out of control. Boo hoo.
In polite and patriotic society such carping is usually postponed until after the guests have left for home. But like smearing the military, the Lieberal opposition’s point is to denigrate the government in power and to ensure it is pummeled by the MSM to damage its standing. Desperate ploys for desperate Iggytrons.
A BILLION dollars plus, folks; that’s half the cost of the Long Gun Registry, which took considerably longer to accrue.
How can you rant about the wastage on the gun registry, and defend this $B+ boondoggle?!
If memory serves, the Liberals had 3 elections at a $Billion a pop from 1993-2000 while stealing $400 million dollars of Canadian taxes for Adscam and spending another $200 Billion on the long gun registry during the same period.
Yes 1 $Billion is a lot of money for a summit in the internet age when they could hold it on the net for peanuts, but the Liberals are hardly the people who should be pointing fingers here and if the environment gets on the agenda it’ll cost $Trillions if they accomplish what they failed to at Copenhagen, and keep on costing.
correction -$2 Billion on the long gun registry
The truth is, had our Prime Minister declined having the G20 meetings; or, didn’t take proper care and precaution with the meetings; our Progressive friends would be whining how PMSH doesn’t understand the significance of being o the international stage.
These guys will nit-pick over everything that is superficial; “you pay to play” seems to apply here, but I digress. I take solace in knowing that BS aside; it galls the Progressives to no end that many of their pet issues are not on the agenda. All said, what really galls the Progressives, is that Canada is the envy of much of the world, and the our Conservative Prime Minister is the star of the show.
If the summit spending had been billed as stimulus spending, Ig would be whining that it wasn’t enough.
PM Harper’s response doesn’t really address the high cost of the summits. It’s a cheap joke at the expense of real leadership.
Survey says, experts agree, pollsters choke:
CBC is out to lunch.
Fire. Them. All.
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“Krista Erickson leaves CBC — apparently to join ‘Fox News North’
CBC television journalist Krista Erickson appears to be the latest “Fox News North”acquisition. MORE… (nnw)
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“‘Fox News North’ primed for launch”
“The official announcement of what has been unofficially termed “Fox News North” is coming on Tuesday.
After reports last week that Quebecor Inc. (QBR.B-T33.65-0.20-0.59%) was poised to launch a 24-hour news channel aimed at more conservative Canadian viewers, the company said on Monday that president and chief executive officer Pierre Karl Péladeau will “make an announcement in regard to new investment in Canadian media” in downtown Toronto on Tuesday morning.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/fox-news-north-primed-for-launch/article1603483/
ishmael, you haven’t spent much time watching parliament on TV or reading Hansard have you?
A lot of it is just, “I know you are, but what am I?” school yard push and shove back.
Unfortunate, but true.
The Reformers, Alliance, and then the CPC tried to raise the bar, but eventually, with the NDP and Liberals always nipping at their heels like little dogs they said “Screw this” and started to bite back in kind.
If the Left ever grew up and took service to Canada seriously, things would change, but you’ll keel over dead if you hold your breath waiting because the Left will never change.
Their view of the world is a static zero sum game.
Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC):
“Mr. Speaker, as for extravagance in France, I think the Leader of the Opposition has set himself up.”
Double BaDing Ba
PMSH has a wicked sense of humour – the foreign count, not so much. the Liberals sneer, PMSH likes to laugh. Big difference.
Heh, good one PM Harper. I’m pleased to see some fellow SDA’ers recognize the irony in President Calderon lecturing the U. S. and Canada. If he had any answers at all, it seems evident that Mexican nationals would not be braving the Sonoran desert to find a job, any job at all.
Question to Iggy: Has the LIeberal party paid back the money stolen in ADSCAM?
Oh, shut up!
CPC spend a $1billion in T.O.
No wonder Liberals complain. They can’t, nor take credit.
Stimulus Politics 101
Chretien had the last one in the bush, err Alberta. Nobody saw how much $ it took to stage.
DaninVan at June 14, 2010 10:46 AM
How can you rant about the wastage on the gun registry, and defend this $B+ boondoggle?!
The G8/G20 will be successful. The long gun registry….. not so much. Remind me again how many registered weapons have been used to commit murders in Toronto this past year?
“As for extravagance in France, I would not know about that, but perhaps the Leader of the Opposition, at his home in Provence, could tell us all about it.”
This is why I call Harper :The Fox.
It is Canada’s turn to host the G8 and G20 and we should do it with the appropriate panache to show the rest of the world Canadians’ pride in their country. Oh, and by the way, Paul Martin and his liberals have never repaid the millions they stole from the civil servants’ pension fund to reduce the deficit and make themselves look good.
Why don’t the NDP and Liberals raise this issue?
I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the billion$ tab was eaten up by McSquintdicks unions.
Hmmm…an okay comeback. Can PMSH now please give back the billions he’s bilked Canadians for in terms of growth of government, auto subsidies, etc much more than any previous government? Oh, sorry consuckers, didn’t mean to disturb your bubble. Full power to the Reality Denial Shields.
Because unlike the long gun registry they are trying to save lives, make the place safe.
Whereas the registry is an attack on rural Canadians. It’s the LPoC policy of demonization.