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Canadians do not trust Mr Harper or the Conservatives to spend enough money to make sure they are comfortable in tough times. Honestly JJ…Ontario is in deep trouble and its only a matter of time before Canada feels the hurt from the US. I’m starting to think 10 months with Dion and Layton might just wipe them off the face of the electoral map for a decade!!
If you think about it its very amusing. Dion will never be able to keep the majority of his promises regarding the environment. Alberta and Saskatchewan will be unwilling partners in a carbon tax scheme. Feeling the heat…how do you think McGuinty’s going to feel about 3 billion a year charged to the coal fired electric plants in southern Ontario. It wont take long for the greentards to realize that they cant make Dion do anymore for them then Harper did, and, it wont take long for voters and the MSM to figure out that most of this was made up on the fly because no one ever thought he’d win!! I say..let him have the job…if he manages to make it work then were all better for it…if he does what most thinking people think he’ll do, then, he destroy’s the Liberal brand for the next 2o years!!

I say it’s a very scary thought to think about Dion as PM. Come on Ontario, wake up before it’s too late.
I sure can’t afford any carbon taxes in my world.

CPC reversal to come.Pray for another huge run-up in the TSX tomorrow.Up 252 points today. That’s all Canadians care about.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081008/world_economy_081008/20081008?hub=TopStories

dion and cherniak think the grist will be in power. I think they should wait for the election. They were the ones dismissing these polls up to now.
Canad is slated to have a 1.2% groth next year according to the IMF. That is the strongest of our allies. If dion was to win we would have a carbon tax recession.

“After a rocky week for the CPC and still a week to go …….he now acts like he has won! Isn’t that called hubris??”

And at the debates Harper said the NDP and LPC were vying for second place.

Hubris anyone?

And Joanne - there was never, ever, any chance the NDP would take over the LPC.

Everyone: relax. The CPC will win.

…he was referring to himself as the Prime Minister and to his wife as the ‘First Lady’!!!’

Huh? First Lady??? … Not in Canada, you say? …clearly Dion has said the word “BUSH” so often in this campaign, he must think he lives in the good ol US of A.

If this twerp EVER gets to be PM, I just might have to move there!

I am waiting for the National Press Gallery to ask the tough questions of Dion on the actual cost of Green Shift.They are giving him a free ride.

Canadians electing Dion would be just as bad and as stupid as the Americans when they elected George W. Bush (twice!). It would be falling for the media bias and fear. (Note that in the US the media tends to be bias in favor of the incumbent Republicans, and is too easy on the government; exactly the opposite of here). Canadians would spend the next 6 months thinking “My God, what have we done?

“The Government of Kabul”.. Kabul has a government?

Please, please watch CBC right now!

Stephane Dion said today that he ‘expects to be Prime Minister’ and he had his transition team in place. At Much Music he was referring to himself as the Prime Minister and to his wife as the ‘First Lady’!!!

I don’t know if anyone else agrees but I think this could be a “moment” in the campaign. Arrogance is not a good thing.

Gayle says:
Everyone: relax. The CPC will win.

If we don’t win a majority Gayle, Duceppe and Dion will form a coalition (Duceppe gave the nod to Dion today) Mr Unity and the man who would break up Canada will dictate to the ROC.
BC,Alberta,Sask and Manitob combined would be represented by 5-10 Lib Mps in a Liberal/Duceppe gov’t.
308 seats, and the 4 western provinces combined would have at most 10 seats in government.

Missed it, will watch it tonight, later.

If anyone sees that interview online, PLEASE let me know!!! Thanks.

Read Adam Radwanski’s posts at G&M on the Dion speech today…he concurs with the Paikin post that the room was all Libs,and that Dion could have stood on the stage and pee’s and wouldn’t lose a vote in that crowd!
Jo..I NEED details on the dion/Mansbridge thing..my sat.dish went out with a storm we are having and I’m dying to know!

Oh Sammy. I can’t even begin to describe the a$% he made of himself. I just hope there will be a repeat or that it will be online.

He refused to answer so many questions that Mansbridge seemed to be getting very irritated/bemused/annoyed that he just gave up.

If Canadians vote this guy in as PM, I will probably stop blogging because I just couldn’t take it.

Has anyone noticed the audience at some of Dion’s events?
I caught the beginning of one of his appearances today and as the camera panned over the applauding audience there wasn’t a smile on the face of any of them.
Some looked downright bored.
Meanwhile, Dion was onstage acknowledging the applause with his own tight-lipped smile causing him to look more smug than usual.
NeilD

I am beyond exasperation. I think I will sign off for the night. I can’t believe the polling is showing the remote possiblity that Mr. Bean could be PM.

Honestly, I’ll take Layton over him. No question.

I was able to catch some of the Mansbridge-Dion one-on-one on CBC. thanks for the tip, Joanne.

To say ‘the prospect of Dion as PM and leading this country’ is just about the scariest thought I can recall in my life, would be a vast understatement!

Stephane Dion is so out of touch with the general population it is comical. I have great respect for our academic community, but clearly Dion has never come up for air. He evaded almost all the questions posed by ‘everyday Canadians’ via video feed, and Peter Mansbridge was much more charitable than I would have been, letting him off the hook.
To his credit, Peter did try his best to get Dion off his soapbox dissing Harper, and back to the question, but to little avail.

I have complete faith that anyone seeing this interview will NOT vote Liberal, if they care a lick about the future of this country.

People lie to pollsters.

For those that missed the Dion/Mansbridge interview, CBC are running it again this evening. It will be on Newsworld at 10 pm on the west coast. Check local listings at cbc.ca.

“He evaded almost all the questions posed by ‘everyday Canadians’ via video feed…”

You know Harper refused to participate at all if he had to face questions from “everyday Canadians”, right? He was the only leader to refuse.

“You know Harper refused to participate at all if he had to face questions from “everyday Canadians”, right? He was the only leader to refuse.”

link please?

Keith Boag just called out a LIE that paul Martin said at the big Dion speech today,when he said there was a deficit…Keith states:there is NO deficit.Maybe,just maybe,the msm are getting to realize they’ve been had!

jad:

that’s 2:00 am in the Maritimes; not much help for me

Could someone with the wherewithal please tape this and put the video on the web?

You got some facts to back that up?

Rebroadcast is on right now.

Dion was asked by an aerospace worker in Alberta if he would delay the Greenshift considering the economic climate and the fact that workers are worried about their jobs out there.

Answer: Non. It would be in the 2009 budget.

Why don’t the Conservatives have more ads out right now going after Dion? I thought that they’d have lots to choose from? What are they waiting for?

Dion to hang himself maybe?

Here is the video from Mansbridge and dion. People really need to see what they are getting with this arrogant , foolish man. I posted it on my site. maybe Hunter can turn it into youtubes.

Thank’s Roy. It’s too late to watch it now I’ll have to watch it tomorrow. Goodnight everyone. Here’s hoping it looks better in the morning.

I agree Fay; the CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson all but crowned Dion as the winner and next Prime Minister. They could hardly contain their glee, and Craig Oliver is a total idiot!

Thank you frmgrl for your link which I have used and given you credit for, as well as a link back to Joanne here.

Believe !! Keep the faith.

[...] I have to give credit to Peter Mansbridge for not giving Dion a free pass. He was as hard-hitting with Dion as he was with Harper. I plan to dissect the interview here later today. We started last night on a previous post. [...]

I hope PMSH using the words Prime Minister Dion will be a wake up call for voters.
The Economist supports PMSH.
The green voters being told to vote liberal is proof that PMSH and Layton were right to try and deny her a spot in the debates. Notice Dions refused to answer if she would have a spot in his government.
It will be years before the truth of the pacts and deals made prior to the election between the libs/greens/ndp come out. When it does all those voters who fell for the lies will say, don’t blame me.
My take is that canadians might decide they don’t want honest government or sound leadership. Does this mean they live very dishonest lives themselves and will cheat the govt re taxes, or their employer by slacking off on the job, or keep the extra change when a mistake is made by a cashier and oh so many other ways. Considering how many witnesses fail to come forward, or report suspicious behaviour, makes me wonder.
Polls are looking up for us. Let us hope the words PM Dion is enough to wake us all up. Get out and vote.