"This whole legal dispute involves Conservative candidates spending Conservative funds on Conservative advertising. Elections Canada wants the power to determine what constitutes a local advertisement and what constitutes a national one. But to do that, they have to dictate what local candidates are allowed to put in their advertising materials. We think that in a free country, candidates decide what goes in their materials, and not a government bureaucrat."Pierre Poilievre
So the Tory pup is supposed to be convincing us that we DON'T NEED an Election Act and we should let ALL parties do whatever the hell they want without restriction!
Listen
here if you want to hear Tory MP Pierre Poilievre get spanked by Charles Adler on his radio show!
Soundbyte courtesy CJOB
Poilievre is small potatoes
Adler is small potatoes
Both are worthy of the junk heap.
The next election will see to that, won't it?
Posted by Anonymous | 7:09 pm, April 22, 2008
I still am wondering why Harper gave the 'In & Out' file to Poilievre for spin?
Posted by leftdog | 7:39 pm, April 22, 2008
Well, why did they cut and run??? too funny.
We all need to start humming now,
The cons got their hands in our pockets, hands in our pockest....
Posted by susansmith | 7:42 pm, April 22, 2008
Nice to hear him called out. By the end he sounded like a complete and utter crank. Wonderful.
Posted by Steve V | 9:07 pm, April 22, 2008
So the Tory pup is supposed to be convincing us that we DON'T NEED an Election Act and we should let ALL parties do whatever the hell they want without restriction!
With this, like everything else this government does, Pierre is talking to the "base". This is what they believe. The Conservative Party has been taken over by a small group of radical libertarians. Hell, I am more conservative than they are.
Posted by Greg | 4:40 am, April 23, 2008
that was awesome.
Posted by Sean S. | 8:17 am, April 23, 2008
Whoa there Greg. I live in Poilievre riding and trust me, he is no 'libertarian'. He's an authoritarian populist blowhard who wouldn't think twice about promising all kinds of government programs if it thought it would get him elected. In fact, he's always introduces some kind of nonsense, nanny state bill or other ("parents are financially responsible for their teenagers criminal actions" "sell us land for $1" "I got the RCMP to move to the riding (even though it was a done deal before he was elected)").
He's a lot of things - a drooling ideologue chief among them - but he's no libertarian.
Posted by Mike | 11:14 am, April 23, 2008
That was beautiful. I've not been able to stand Adler because he's so kooky about Climate Change Denial, but he finally trained his guns on a worthy target.
Posted by Saskboy | 11:18 pm, April 23, 2008