Crooked in Canada

Liberal leader Stephane Dion needs to spend more time convincing Canadian voters why the Liberals can run the country, and what they intend to do if they are elected to run the country, and a lot less time trying to discredit PM Stephane Harper. He spends more time attacking the PM than he does the Conservative Party and campaigning on his party’s platform combined, and at the end of the day somebody in the Liberal Party needs to tell Dion to pull his head in and get his priorities straight during this election campaign. The Election Day countdown clock is ticking away and all Dion seems to be doing is attacking and criticising the Conservatives. What purpose does that serve when all that remains to be decided on October 14 is whether or not the Conservative Party is going to form a majority or minority government, and who the official opposition will be.

Anyway a Conservative staffer has resigned because he plagiarized former Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s speech, and gave it to then opposition leader Stephen Harper to read in the House. It was a stupid thing to do, and now Dion is exploiting that minor issue instead of focusing on more important things on the campaign trail. It’s another typical stupid move by Dion during this election campaign.

I have no idea why Canadian politicians look to Australian politicians for inspiration when it comes to policies and speeches (NDP Jack Layton’s “working families” platform, and now a plagiarised John Howard speech read by PM Harper), but they should stop doing it, if only because Australian politicians and other government officials are not the sharpest coral on the Great Barrier Reef, and more often then not they are ridiculed by the general public, and the media. Nothing good for a Canadian politician can come out of copying the Australian government, and therefore they should make that perfectly clear to the people they hire as researchers and speech writers.

Jack Layton, while he is emulating Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s 2007 election platform to a degree, had better hope he doesn’t make the same mistakes Rudd has made, though I admit Layton doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming Canada’s next Prime Minister. The arrogant Kevin Rudd, while he did win the prime ministerial ship on the “working families” platform, has failed to live up to his “working families” platform so far, and he’s looking like a one-trick pony when it comes to his current mandate. He will serve one term (if that really) and he will be history. Kevin Rudd has become a dud, but this blog post isn’t about Australia politicians, it’s about the fact that for whatever reason there are idiots employed by Canadian taxpayers who look to Australian politics for inspiration. It’s a dumb thing for them to do, and shows that they are more than a little lacking in the “being creative” department when it comes to formulating policies, speeches and election platforms.

Oh well, not much you or I can do about it, and if government speech writers and researchers can’t figure things out for themselves without stealing ideas and speeches from other countries it sucks to be them, and boy do they look inept, incompetent and just plain intellectually and intelligently challenged doing it.

PM Stephen Harper’s former speech writer (Lippert) is looking like quite the fraud these days isn’t he, and PM Harper is looking like quite the fool for not writing his own speech too. Why any politician can’t write his or her own speeches is beyond me, but now that Harper has been embarrassed by somebody to lazy to write a speech in his own words for the PM, maybe the PM will start writing his own speeches. As far as I am concerned, all politicians should be writing their own speeches anyway because it makes them look a little more credible, capable and intelligent. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill to put words into the mouths of our politicians. That’s just a stupid waste of money. continues below

Lippert is a dickhead for doing what he did, and while he has taken ownership and responsibility for the actions that have embarrassed the PM, he calls it a gaffe. I prefer to think of it as a deliberate fraudulent act, and Lippert should pay a very high price for his dishonest behaviour. Resigning isn’t enough of a price to pay, and I believe Canada’s plagiarism laws should be applied to him in this instance.

Owen Lippert needs to answer for, and suffer the consequences of his actions, and resigning from his taxpayer funded job isn’t enough of a consequence for his fraudulent actions.

Stephane Dion of course has seen an opportunity, albeit a very small one, to discredit PM Harper and is saying that this plagiarism thing because of the content that was in the speech when Harper read it is more proof that the Conservative Party shouldn’t be re-elected.

To say that the PM should not be re-elected because of speech writer’s laziness, dishonesty and stupidity is going a little too far however.

Dion for whatever reason seems to think that Canadian voters should care, and he is wasting valuable time on the election campaign trail beating what is now a “dead horse” given that Lippert has resigned his post.

The “soon-to-be-defeated” Liberal MP Garth Turner should whisper into Dion’s that he isn’t running in a student council election, and that he needs to focus on the issues, and forget about using schoolyard and playground antics to win over Canadian voters. Somebody needs to tell Dion that his current strategy to discredit Harper isn’t working for him.

Geez, you would expect Dion to focus more on his party’s platform during this election campaign instead of trying to discredit Harper and the Conservatives in the eyes of Canadian voters (which isn’t working by the way if the poll numbers are to believed), but when the Liberals can barely afford to finish an election, they have to do whatever it takes I suppose, even if it does make them look more than a little stupid in the eyes of Canadian voters.

The speech I am referring to by the way was given by PM Harper in 2003 while he was in opposition, and was almost a carbon copy of the speech Australian PM John Howard gave two days earlier. Howard was a staunch Bush ally when it came to the war in Iraq.

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