Dumb Remark of the Day

[geoffrey]

"I think you better stick to your knitting and win your own riding." - Peter McKay

I have heard that expression in Newfoundland. It is appropriate and means the following, I believe:

if a person or company sticks to their knitting, they continue to do what they have always done instead of trying to do something they know very little about

He believes the key to a company's success is to stick to its knitting rather than trying to diversify.

Some dictionary

Here is the context of the remark.

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I notice that while the CBC has picked up on Mackay's remark (and his clarification), I have yet to see any reference anywhere to Paul Martin's remark about Calgarians.

The heart of Canadian federal politics is respect for the different parts of the country. I still cannot believe a Canadian Prime Minister would say such a thing. A remark of that sort referring to Montreal instead of Calgary would be cause for resignation.

You're right August.

The Liberals aren't counting on too many Calgary votes though anyway.

I'm calling for resignation. I think its disgusting. This just goes further to show that the Liberals believe that westerners are second class citizens. A government that attacks its own citizens can't be allowed to stay in office.

[tml12]

Don't worry man...we got about 72 hours of Liberal rule left...

[geoffrey]

Don't worry man...we got about 72 hours of Liberal rule left...

I can't wait to ring in the new government at the big Conservative party here in Calgary. Watch for me on TV! I'm the one so drunk from both booze and joy that I can't even walk.

[tml12]

Don't worry man...we got about 72 hours of Liberal rule left...

I can't wait to ring in the new government at the big Conservative party here in Calgary. Watch for me on TV! I'm the one so drunk from both booze and joy that I can't even walk.

I just came back from the liquor store...

I don't drink much, especially on Mondays, but if the CPC wins I'll gladly show up to work hungover Tuesday...

[geoffrey]

Don't worry man...we got about 72 hours of Liberal rule left...

I can't wait to ring in the new government at the big Conservative party here in Calgary. Watch for me on TV! I'm the one so drunk from both booze and joy that I can't even walk.

I just came back from the liquor store...

I don't drink much, especially on Mondays, but if the CPC wins I'll gladly show up to work hungover Tuesday...

I've got class and work Tuesday... I plan on going straight from the convention centre.

[Kiraly]

I just came back from the liquor store...

I don't drink much, especially on Mondays, but if the CPC wins I'll gladly show up to work hungover Tuesday...

The way I see it, I'm either celebrating by toasting to Prime Minister Harper or I'll be drowning my sorrows on Monday night....

....odds are I'll have a headache on Tuesday.

[BubberMiley]

If I were a CPCer, I wouldn't even be using the word "if." There's no way such a horrible campaign as the Libs have run could ever be victorious. If you ask me, it's just a question of majority.

[normanchateau]

The way I see it, I'm either celebrating by toasting to Prime Minister Harper or I'll be drowning my sorrows on Monday night....

You'll be toasting. The religious nut will win. It's an irony of the multi-party system that while well over 60% of

the Canadian electorate despise Harper and will vote against him by voting for socially moderate parties, he'll become Prime Minister despite being socially conservative. For what it's worth, those who vote against Harper on Monday know they're in the majority. It may take a few years but a dose of religious nut Harper will gradually cure the country of Conservative governance even more efficiently than Brian Mulroney did.

[tml12]

The way I see it, I'm either celebrating by toasting to Prime Minister Harper or I'll be drowning my sorrows on Monday night....

You'll be toasting. The religious nut will win. It's an irony of the multi-party system that while well over 60% of

the Canadian electorate despise Harper and will vote against him by voting for socially moderate parties, he'll become Prime Minister despite being socially conservative. For what it's worth, those who vote against Harper on Monday know they're in the majority. It may take a few years but a dose of religious nut Harper will gradually cure the country of Conservative governance even more efficiently than Brian Mulroney did.

Norman! Great to have you back...

You were so confident in the Liberals last time we were talking...but, as the CBC has put it, there has been a "major shift" in the Canadian electorate.

Why don't you join in?

[normanchateau]

The way I see it, I'm either celebrating by toasting to Prime Minister Harper or I'll be drowning my sorrows on Monday night....

You'll be toasting. The religious nut will win. It's an irony of the multi-party system that while well over 60% of

the Canadian electorate despise Harper and will vote against him by voting for socially moderate parties, he'll become Prime Minister despite being socially conservative. For what it's worth, those who vote against Harper on Monday know they're in the majority. It may take a few years but a dose of religious nut Harper will gradually cure the country of Conservative governance even more efficiently than Brian Mulroney did.

Norman! Great to have you back...

You were so confident in the Liberals last time we were talking...but, as the CBC has put it, there has been a "major shift" in the Canadian electorate.

Why don't you join in?

tml12, I was confident that Canadians would never elect a religious nut like Stephen Harper. Clearly I was wrong and Monday they will. I still remain confident that a majority of Canadians, i.e., more than 60%, will vote against Harper and support socially moderate parties to the left of Harper's party.

[scribblet]

I just came back from the liquor store...

I don't drink much, especially on Mondays, but if the CPC wins I'll gladly show up to work hungover Tuesday...

The way I see it, I'm either celebrating by toasting to Prime Minister Harper or I'll be drowning my sorrows on Monday night....

....odds are I'll have a headache on Tuesday.

Well I hope so Fortunately the voters are not buying into the fear mongering so much, and have come to realize that portraying Harper as 'religious nut' is simply a malicious and spurious tactic. Not to mention offensive to all people who hold religious beliefs.

[tml12]

I just came back from the liquor store...

I don't drink much, especially on Mondays, but if the CPC wins I'll gladly show up to work hungover Tuesday...

The way I see it, I'm either celebrating by toasting to Prime Minister Harper or I'll be drowning my sorrows on Monday night....

....odds are I'll have a headache on Tuesday.

Well I hope so Fortunately the voters are not buying into the fear mongering so much, and have come to realize that portraying Harper as 'religious nut' is simply a malicious and spurious tactic. Not to mention offensive to all people who hold religious beliefs.

The Montreal Gazette carried a piece today where they said it was virtually "certain" Harper would win.

I should add they said the Bloc and Liberals were fighting for Opposition status.

[kimmy]

It's an irony of the multi-party system that while well over 60% of the Canadian electorate despise Harper and will vote against him by voting for socially moderate parties, he'll become Prime Minister despite being socially conservative.

I think recent polls have shown that less than 60% "despise" Harper. He's now winning these "Best PM" polls quite handily, isn't he?

But yes, our system needs an overhaul. How did a pig of a man like Jean Chretien win 3 majority governments without ever getting more than 41% of the vote? It's been in need of fixing for a long time.

-k

[tml12]

It's an irony of the multi-party system that while well over 60% of the Canadian electorate despise Harper and will vote against him by voting for socially moderate parties, he'll become Prime Minister despite being socially conservative.

I think recent polls have shown that less than 60% "despise" Harper. He's now winning these "Best PM" polls quite handily, isn't he?

But yes, our system needs an overhaul. How did a pig of a man like Jean Chretien win 3 majority governments without ever getting more than 41% of the vote? It's been in need of fixing for a long time.

-k

Duceppe, I don't have the quote in front of me but it was in today's Montreal Gazette, has suddenly stopped kissing-up to anglos and minorities here in Quebec and is now focusing his attack solely in Harper.

He made some quote about bilingualism being very good (outside of Quebec, of course! ) but he accused Harper of possibly trying to give anglo Quebecers more English services, denying this was a double standard.

:angry:

[normanchateau]

I think recent polls have shown that less than 60% "despise" Harper. He's now winning these "Best PM" polls quite handily, isn't he?

But yes, our system needs an overhaul. How did a pig of a man like Jean Chretien win 3 majority governments without ever getting more than 41% of the vote? It's been in need of fixing for a long time.

If there's a poll out there showing that a majority of Canadians view Harper as "Best PM, I've yet to see it.

Plurality, sure. Majority, I don't think so. But a plurality is all Harper needs to slip in just as it was sufficient for the loathsome Chretien.

[Canuck E Stan]

Tories to easily win minority

The poll also gives Mr. Harper a 10-point lead over Mr. Martin as the person Canadians think would make the best prime minister.

Check the article out Norm.

[August1991]

"People will have to choose between the ultra-conservative, extreme right-wing agenda of Stephen Harper and the progressive, ambitious plan we're offering Canadians," he told a partisan rally.

"They used to call them the Tories," Martin said.

"But that party - the party of Bob Stanfield, the party of Joe Clark, the party of mainstream and moderate leaders, the party that was proud to call itself progressive, is no more - it's as dead as disco."

Paul Martin, 20 January 2006

Canoe

Disco?

Stultum facit Fortuna quem vult perdere.

[geoffrey]

"People will have to choose between the ultra-conservative, extreme right-wing agenda of Stephen Harper and the progressive, ambitious plan we're offering Canadians," he told a partisan rally.

"They used to call them the Tories," Martin said.

"But that party - the party of Bob Stanfield, the party of Joe Clark, the party of mainstream and moderate leaders, the party that was proud to call itself progressive, is no more - it's as dead as disco."

Paul Martin, 20 January 2006

Canoe

Disco?

Stultum facit Fortuna quem vult perdere.

Don't know latin or whatever language that is, so I have no idea what that meant??

The tories are simply a party of the CPC now, sadly not big enough of a part for me but oh well.

Dead as disco though. I like that, could describe Martin as well.

[August1991]

On ne

laissera

pas

Calgary

décider

pour

le Québec

Bloc Québécois advertisement in the Journal de Québec, 21 January 2006

Western Standard

[geoffrey]

On ne

laissera

pas

Calgary

décider

pour

le Québec

Bloc Québécois advertisement in the Journal de Québec, 21 January 2006

Western Standard

I hate to pull a Scott Reid, but the Bloc can blow me.

[tml12]

On ne

laissera

pas

Calgary

décider

pour

le Québec

Bloc Québécois advertisement in the Journal de Québec, 21 January 2006

Western Standard

I hate to pull a Scott Reid, but the Bloc can blow me.

When questioned about the surge of Conservative support in Quebec, Réal Lapierre, a Bloc MP from south of Quebec City, said "I had the chance to see Conservative MPs from the West in Ottawa...I had to ask myself several times whether I was on the right planet or what century I was in."

First, WTF???

Second, I have seen plenty of Western MPs. They dress not much differently then Eastern MPs.

Third, even if they came to Parliament in bathing suits, what's the point? Trudeau wore sandles. I should also add, Quebecers should base their voting intentions on their own Conservative candidates, not Western ones.

Fourth, it was just a racist comment...simply put. :angry:

[stignasty]

Fourth, it was just a racist comment...simply put. :angry:

Which "race" was it intolerant towards?

[geoffrey]

Which "race" was it intolerant towards?

The western race of course.

Whether it was racist (which it isn't technically) or just disrespectful, I expect the Bloc to apologize. Though really we've been saying the same thing since confederation.

[kimmy]

On ne

laissera

pas

Calgary

décider

pour

le Québec

Bloc Québécois advertisement in the Journal de Québec, 21 January 2006

Western Standard

The Bloc says explicitly what Paul Martin and Buzz Hargrove have been not-so-subtly implying over the last few days.

"Peter MacKay doesn’t really count. All of Stephen Harper’s advisers come from Calgary. They come from where he is. Peter MacKay is not going to be the person who’s going to be deciding."

"His sense is about Alberta, where the wealth in Alberta, everyone recognizes is much greater than it is anywhere in Canada. The principles that he's brought up with and believes in coming out of there don't sit well with the rest of Canada."

There's really just 2 differences between the new BQ ad and what Liberals have been saying for the past few days.

One, the BQ has the guts to say it bluntly while PMPM and Buzz Yesteryear attempt to pussyfoot around it, say it without actually saying it.

And two, the BQ is a regional party that has no reason to give a crap what happens beyond Quebec's borders. The Liberals, on the otherhand, claim to be a national party.

Think about that one for a while, Liberal supporters. Think about what kind of guy you're voting for.

"Paulberta." Doesn't that seem hilarious in hindsight?

-k

[tml12]

Fourth, it was just a racist comment...simply put. :angry:

Which "race" was it intolerant towards?

I think it was an anti-Western comment.

If I went out West and I started saying "you people...what planet am I on? What century am I in?, etc."

I think people would not react in a positive way toward me. Furthermore, I think it is a comment said by someone who was looking for attention and is quite desperate.