Gaffes Of The Day

Today's installments brought to you from the past-bites-you-in-the-donkey department

LIBERAL: Say it isn't so, Stéphane! On a day where a third allegation of plagiarism against Stephen Harper surfaces, Stéphane Dion is shown to have delivered a speech in 2005 containing text apparently lifted from a speech presented by Dr. Robert Corell of the American Meteorological Society before a 2004 U.S. Senate committee on the environment.

Lets see where that goes.

Update: Not very far.

NDP: Is the NDP's Deputy Leader Thomas Mulcair really in favour of exporting bulk water from Canada? Maybe M. Mulcair is a little, er, wet behind the ears?

“But if there are areas where I can't have a bottling plant, for all sorts of reasons, but I can export, and I am able to ensure the continuity of resources, and it will bring something to the region, why wouldn't I do it? It's like saying: all our trees in Quebec should stay where they are. They should never be cut. This is a renewable resource, not like mining you know. As soon as you extract the minerals, it's over. But this is water. If we manage it correctly, if we take care of it like we should, why can't we even talk about it? It's this quasi-religious approach that I cannot figure out, Mme. Speaker.” Former Quebec National Assembly Minister of Environment Thomas Mulcair

Besides being against NDP policy, most New Democrats and more than a few Liberals would deploy water torture rather than approve bulk water exports.

Stephen Harper has refused to rule out such a policy. Readers are left to their imagination as to Harper's views on water torture. PS: Someone should inform Mr. Mulclair about that pesky NAFTA treaty and the proportionality clause which, while attached to oil at present. would certainly be pushed by the U.S. to be attached to something even more important than oil... water.

mike watkins dot ca, a more or less equal opportunity critic