First here's
the recent Hansard. Pierre Poilievre and other freedom loving Conservatives
are laughing at Ignatieff and
with Ann Coulter:
Mr. David McGuinty (Ottawa South, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, the darling of the reform-conservative-republican movement really outdid herself last night in Calgary. By addressing Canadian diversity, Ann Coulter said that diversity is not an advantage to a country like Canada. “It's not a strength”, she continued. Then she went on to compare diversity to cancer. From organizing speeches to putting on cocktails, the Conservative Party's dirty little fingerprints are all over her Canadian tour.
Will the Prime Minister immediately and publicly condemn Ann Coulter's outrageous and intolerant views?
Hon. Jay Hill (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, you and the hon. member would know that his question has absolutely nothing to do with the business of government and should be disallowed.
Mr. David McGuinty (Ottawa South, Lib.):
Mr. Speaker, the office of the member for South Shore—St. Margaret's organized a Coulter cocktail. The member of Parliament for Calgary West led the applause last night from his front row seat.
The Prime Minister's mentor, Rainer Knopff, who co-authored the reckless and divisive firewall letter, co-sponsored the speech and sat there while his guest savaged mainstream Canadian values.
Silence is acquiescence. Either the Prime Minister supports it or he does not. Which is it?
The Deputy Speaker:
Order, please. I do not see that that is a business of government administration. I do see the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister rising, so I will give him a chance to answer, but I caution members to keep their questions--
...
I see the Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister rising to answer the question. I will allow him to do so.
Mr. Pierre Poilievre (Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, the member has raised a very important question about an American commentator who has come to this country with some outrageous comments: comments supporting the Iraq war, comments supporting the use of torture, and comments referring to Israel as a war criminal. But enough about the leader of the Liberal Party.
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Does it get any better than this?" Asks Craig Carter, the author of the
The Politics of the Cross Resurrected blog. Looks like it does. Here's something I found at
Blogging Canadians:
By Trevor James Rodie on 27 March 2010 - 2:33pm
To the Honourable Mr. Dion,
I saw you last week as I sat in on Parliament. You looked dejected, and we didn't get to hear a peep out of you. I found this disappointing, as you are the most recent ELECTED leader of the Liberal Party, which should make you the current leader of the Opposition. But who says the Liberals care about silly things like Democracy, or Integrity or standing up for what's right. Perhaps if they did, they wouldn't have thrown you under the bus after one unsuccessful election. Even John Tory, architect behind Kim Campbell's famous disaster of a campaign (one of the worst in Canadian history, by its results), got far more chances than that. And to be fair, did they even support your Green Shift while they were campaigning? Or did they pretty much act like you shouldn't have been leader the minute you were elected, even if it was their own undemocratic methods of electing leaders that they so stubbornly clung to that led to your victory. Have you ever wondered how things might have been if they actually supported your ideas?
The link to the entry redirects to the Green Party website. It is in the "blogs" sections, so I'm not saying that this is the official point of view of the Green Party of Canada, but it doesn't look like the party objects to such a letter... So it looks like the Greens have found their own way to have a good laugh at Michael Ignatieff. An appeal like that to one of the members of his team, just can't be viewed otherwise.
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