Loose Change and Chrétien

Chretien doesn't need a secret service, if someone gets in his way, he'll just knock him out eh (Stolen from Robin Williams' Live on Broadway!)?

Seriously though, he is a diplomatic character to just say thanks and move on. Bubba went medieval on them in a speech and we all know what happened with Bill Maher...
 
Pardalis said:
A Truther gives Jean Chrétien a DVD of Loose Change, the former Prime Minister uses it as a coaster.

The best idea he's ever had.

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That's why I love that guy.

I hate the guy with a passion, and he may look and speak like a complete idiot, but he's not and he never does anything unintentionally.
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No, no. What I love about that politician is:

1) The fact that he's managed to be hated by everyone.
2) When he's got something to say, he doesn't keep it to himself... (just like Trudeau, of course)
3) He makes me laugh.
 
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jhunter1163 said:
So, the PM has to give a flying fig about what the people think for longer than four years and five minutes. This is definitely an improvement over the American model.
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Well, more-or-less. It results in apathy, sometimes.

Molinaro said:
Any PM who can get his hands around a protester's throat faster than the security detail can get in between is ok by me.
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Yeah. Yay Canada!
 
The look the truther gives the camera as he turns to walk away is just priceless.

:D
 
Pardalis said:
Subtlety and Jean Chrétien are antonymous.

I hate the guy with a passion, and he may look and speak like a complete idiot, but he's not and he never does anything unintentionally.
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Like 'im or not, you gotta admit he was quite smooth with the coaster move. And I'm quite sure that he stopped thinking about that twoofer about the same time the glass made contact with the coaster.....I mean DVD. The twoofer on the other hand? Probably as close as he'll ever get to anyone of note in his sorry-[rule8] life.
 
Chrétien's a kick-ass politician specifically because he knows what to say and do when confronted with pretty much anything -- including stupid.
 
Belz... said:
Chrétien's a kick-ass politician specifically because he knows what to say and do when confronted with pretty much anything -- including stupid.
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As I said, even people who hate him admit he's quite a politician. But that's not really a compliment... ;)
 
jhunter1163 said:
So, the PM has to give a flying fig about what the people think for longer than four years and five minutes. This is definitely an improvement over the American model.
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The joys of the parliamentary system. The maximum a government can go without calling an election is five years; there is no minimum. A government's time in office can be brief if it's a minority and is defeated on a non-confidence vote.

The most famous example in Canadian history is Joe Clark, who's minority government was forced to go back to the polls after just nine months in power when it lost a non-confidence vote in Parliament.

Generally though, the public doesn't like elections coming that close together since federal elections are not cheap to administer.
 
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Corsair 115 said:
The joys of the parliamentary system. The maximum a government can go without calling an election is five years; there is no minimum. A government's time in office can be brief if it's a minority and is defeated on a non-confidence vote.

The most famous example in Canadian history is Joe Clark, who's minority government was forced to go back to the polls after just nine months in power when it lost a non-confidence vote in Parliament.

Generally though, the public doesn't like elections coming that close together since federal elections are not cheap to administer.
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And while it wasn't Canada the country back then (same system though), there were pre-Conderation governments that lasted for only weeks at a time.


Also, didn't Harper's government introduce and pass a bill making a strict maximum like the US system? Or was it blocked?
 
Tbone said:
And while it wasn't Canada the country back then (same system though), there were pre-Conderation governments that lasted for only weeks at a time.


Also, didn't Harper's government introduce and pass a bill making a strict maximum like the US system? Or was it blocked?
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Kind of. He proposed fixed election dates every 4 years. (With earlier elections still possible for the usual reasons). I don't recall if that ever morphed into a bill or not. If so, it slipped right under my radar.
 
D'rok the Lacone said:
Kind of. He proposed fixed election dates every 4 years. (With earlier elections still possible for the usual reasons). I don't recall if that ever morphed into a bill or not. If so, it slipped right under my radar.
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Ontario passed a similar law in regards to provincial elections. However, minority governments defeated on a non-confidence vote will obviously change the timings.
 
D'rok the Lacone said:
I don't recall if that ever morphed into a bill or not. If so, it slipped right under my radar.
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It appears as though it did. Bill C-16 of the 39th Parliament was passed by the Senate and received assent in May.

It mandates that federal elections be held on the third Monday of October four years after the last federal election (subject to the usual vagaries of governmental defeat as a result of a non-confidence vote, and subject to other provisions within the Act itself) with the first election under the Act being set for October 19, 2009.

See here and here.
 
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Hehe...another troother vid where they don't even realize they have parodied themselves...great vid!:D
 
LashL said:
It appears as though it did. Bill C-16 of the 39th Parliament was passed by the Senate and received assent in May.

It mandates that federal elections be held on the third Monday of October four years after the last federal election (subject to the usual vagaries of governmental defeat as a result of a non-confidence vote, and subject to other provisions within the Act itself) with the first election under the Act being set for October 19, 2009.

See here and here.
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Damn. That's a change we just really didn't need IMO.
 
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