Wednesday, November 30, 2005

 

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Paul Martin's Liberals were defeated in a non-confidence motion in Parliament. Now comes the election, and with it, The Official Blog Of The Liberal Party Of Canada.

An excerpt in English:

November 29th - Day One
7:41 PM - We're on the bus to Montreal after the first rally of the campaign. The PM just gave a speech at a lounge in Ottawa's Byward Market. Critically, no animals were harmed.
People keep sayng this campaign is a carbon copy of the 2004 election. But that's not true. Stephen Harper has a right handsome new hairstyle. Paul Hellyer has grabbed hold of the campaign agenda, blowing the lid off the whole UFO invasion thing, the number one priority of Canadians who are socially awkward Omni subscribers. And we were all shocked to walk out tonight to discover that, unlike 2004, the PM's oversized face is not on the side of the side of our campaign bus.
Turns out this was an edict from the Prime Minister himself. Big Paul (as we called the massive head, which featured the PM in a boyish haircut and a relentless, toothy smile that we all grew to pathelogically detest) was apparently cramping his style. And frightening small children. We'd pull into small towns in Quebec and we'd invariably hear the frightened screams of innocent toddlers: "Le nez! Le nez!"
Now the side of the bus reads simply: "Paul Martin's Liberals." And Big Paul has gone to his eternal resting spot, which I just naturally assume is the PM's bedroom
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Also:
Now we're talking about speeches: the PM apparently wants to give some. He's completely resisting my strong advice that he express his vision for the country through interpretive dance.

More from this freak show as it happens, although I fully expect an adult to take over fairly soon and put an end to the fun.

This from the Quebec side of the Liberal Party blog:
Throughout the countryside, Scott Feschuk, principal writer of the speeches of Paul Martin, will send, on line round, short anecdotes starting from its Blackberry. It is an apparatus without wire which makes it possible to the political collaborators to remain in contact between them, to communicate instantaneously with the media and to develop so muscular inches which they can fold a part of five hundreds into four! To react to the blog of Scott, click on sfeschuk@liberal.ca. (Translation by Babel Fish Translation)

And yet this may be the most important federal election in Canada's history.

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