Stephen Harper, defending the Conservatives for running as a candidate someone who is charged with smuggling a Mercedes and a huge quantity of liquor across the border, by saying "I depend on other people to do stuff like background checks for me."
The last thing a leader does is sluff the blame onto someone else, especially when it's your signature at the bottom of the candidate's nomination paperwork, Steve.
Best line from accused smuggler and Connie candidate Derek Zeisman's official bio:
"In his capacity as a foreign service officer with the Canadian Diplomatic Corps, Derek served as a policy analyst on issues relating to the Canadian-US. border."
Zeisman contributed an essay somewhere along the line on what he would do as prime minister. Among his proposals:
- abolish the Charter of Rights and Freedoms - "While, in theory, a liberal and democratic concept, the Charter actually flies in the face of every democratic virtue cherished by Canadians.";
- abolish all taxes on corporations, industries and business;
- implement a user-pay approach to infrastructure spending;
- "explore" a North American monetary union (single currency);
- annex the Turks and Caicos (what is it with Connies and Caribbean islands?)
- "run-off" elections, involving two voting days for each of the 308 seats in the Commons;
- a senate appointed by provincial premiers, based on party standings in the provincial legislature at the time of appointment.
Meanwhile, Berk doesn't have anything on this story that led CTV's nation news Wednesday night. Nope. He's leading with a story that Susan Murray said the word "bullshit" live on air during an interview...and oh yes...Angelina Jolie is having Brad's baby.
Bourque Newswatch: Bigger. Bolder. Better.
