The Secret Diary of Stephen Harper: Snowball Fight Looms in the Commons Ethics Committee

Monday, November 26, 2007

Snowball Fight Looms in the Commons Ethics Committee

I've decided to hurry back from Uganda so I can watch the show this week. What interests me in particular is whether the Puffins really want the "German-Canadian businessman" to testify about how many Créton-era Libranos were, in the words of journalista Steffie Camero, "on the take." Perhaps we can have the pleasure of seeing lawyers Mark Lalond and Alain Roque ~~puff the MPs~~ take the stand while we're waiting for the GCB to pull his marde together.

Or perhaps we can applaud as Iggy supporter Paul Szabo tries to sabotage brilliant NDP parliamentarian Pat Martin, who is only after the truth, as I am.

Whew... there's back tracking going on everywhere. Lysianne Gagnon in La Presse and Sheila Copps in the Sun papers are both spinning that the wise old "Petit Gars de Shawinigan" is right - that this is a police matter and I was wrong in wanting a full scale enquiry and the legal bills will kill us and why can we all be friends and love one another.

Apparently the "German-Canadian pasta entrepreneur" wants three days to plow through his correspondence in his Ottawa condo before he goes before the committee. Maybe the RCMP can help the poor old guy with his paperwork.

This is truly history in the making my friends.

Pix: Librano "Justice" Minister Alain Roque doing his best Créton impression for the press corpse. (CP)

Talk Tough Like Mike

•“Look, this is America and you have to decide what kind of country you want. This is your country as much as it is mine.” - 2004
*"Look, if I lose, I'll just move back to Massachusetts." - to the Harvard Crimson newspaper - 2006
*“If you mess with me, I’ll mess with you until I’m done.”
• "You're looking at someone who turned down the chance to become Prime Minister of Canada, and I did so, in part, because I felt it would divide the country."
• “I don’t need any lessons in legitimacy from Harper.”
• “He knows where to find me.”
• "He's creating a parliamentary crisis and dividing the country."
• "It’s his budget, not mine."
• "It's up to Harper to make the right decision and up to me to decide if he made it."
• "We're putting the government on probation."
•"Mr. Harper, your time is up.”
*"This is a prime minister who a year ago was trying to make you embarrassed if you liked opera or classical music or the ballet or poetry. I mean, come on, let's get over this. You can like hockey, you can like classical music. Let's stop playing Canadian against Canadian and taste against taste."

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