Who: Danny Williams
When: Saturday, February 7, 2009
Where: Interview with Kathleen Petty for CBC Radio’s The House.
Score: 23 “you knows” in six minutes and 30 seconds.
Well, you know, I think we understood here in Newfoundland and Labrador that, you know, once the Liberal Party had made up its mind that it was going to support the budget for its own, you know, national reasons,
you know, we accept that even though we'd prefer a different outcome, but it's really Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans, I think, as a group just standing on principle and making a statement to the rest of the nation that they disagree with what the Harper Conservatives have done to try and, you know, compromise us during this budget and make us pay for democratically electing Liberals and New Democrats.
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3 comments:
The Caroline Kennedy Syndrome. Highly annoying.
How in gods name could anybody ever vote for the provincial liberals when they have so obviously compromised themselves to the Federal liberals?
The federal liberals are paying for the provincial liberals office space.
Can you say compromised!
Then there is the conundrum that we call confederation.
Liberal, or Conservative whatever it doesn't matter what national party you elect MP's to they are all the same when you belong to a minority prov in this phoney federation. All of the national parties have to work within the same tyranny of the majority system where in order to win power you need to be on the good side of the majority and the majority in this confederation live in Ontario and Quebec. 66% to be exact and further to that some 50%of the canadian population live in the urban cities none of which count from our province. You must be delusional if you think any national party will go to bat for 1.5% of the population and that includes the MP's you elect to those same national parties. Sure we don't even comprise the margin of error in the polls which is usually 3%. It isn't the national parties we need to change as we have seen it is the political system of Democratic Discrimination against the minority provinces by all of the national parties in favor of vote buying in the majority provinces. You could be playing this game till the cows come home of electing one or the other national proxy parties for ON/QU and expecting a different result it is time to stop the insanity. These are all symptoms the real root cause of our place in confederation is our lack of equality. If you really want to send a message to the confederation and have your elected MP's stand up for you tell them to cross the floor and stand up as Newfoundland and Labrador First MP's. As for defeating the budget it can only be done with the Liberals or in the Senate that is assuming Iggy doesn't tell the Liberal senators to pass it Like Dion did. So much for sober second thought. The senate is nothing but an extension of the systemically flawed HOC Per Capita Colonialism.
EQUALITY OR EXIT!
Hey, Greg, nice of you to mix up the identities you post a comment under.
Now we know that Richard Byrne is actually Greg Byrne.
This sounds like a rant you already posted but what does it have to do with verbal tics?
Greg, perhaps you'd have an easier time of things if stopped trying to pretend that people come from provinces and only think in those narrow terms.
Then when you look at federal politics you'd see that in fact national political aprties have gone to bat for all sorts of groupings of Canadians including the ones who live in this province.
Now none of that matters to you since facts don't matter. You've already made up your mind.
But hey, thanks for commenting.
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