Pretty funny short video with Keith Ashfield. He didn't know I was in the area so I just hurried up and put the camera to his face asking a few questions?
I asked them both about the Steve Murphy and Stephane Dion exchange???
Enjoy -
Keith Ashfield -
David Innes was chatting with a voter and he was surprised that I had the camera on.
arrested.jpg A greater diversity of voices are being heard online - and not everyone's happy about it. More bloggers were arrested last year than ever before. That’s according to a World Information Access report that says 36 bloggers were arrested in 2007 - three times as many as were arrested in 2006.
The same report says 64 bloggers have been arrested since 2003, with one-third of those arrests occurring in China, Iran and Egypt. But in reality, that number is probably a lot higher. The report only counts the arrests it can verify, and sometimes that just isn’t possible. For example, the Committee to Protect Bloggers published information about hundreds of assumed bloggers arrested in Burma. Unfortunately, the WIA couldn’t access the information it needs to confirm it, and those numbers don't get counted.
According to the report, the most common reason for arrest is organizing social protest, which was the reason given for all of Egypt’s nine arrests. It's also the reaons why some are reporting that Egypt's government is considering blocking Facebook - where organizers could form groups and plan events.
"If you were prime minister now, what would you have done about the economy and this crisis that Mr. Harper has not done?"
Steve Murphy is well known for his straight forward questions. Was this a tricky question?
Myself, I had trouble with it?
Hey? Who would have believe that the National media would be focusing on the Maritimes during the final days of the Campaign?
Good work Steve!!!!
Here's the story -
Tories show video to play up Dion's language difficulties TOM HANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS Reporters view a television interview by Liberal leader Stephane Dion in Winnipeg, Oct. 9, 2008.
Harper moved quickly to exploit what the Conservatives said is a damning, embarrassing piece of tape, in which Dion asked for three takes to answer what he would have done about the economy if he were prime minister now.
Harper told reporters that: "When you're managing a trillion-and-a-half-dollar economy, you don't get a chance to do do-overs, over and over again."
Harper said it shows that Dion and the Liberal party "really don't know what they would do about the economy."
"I don't think this is a question of language at all. The question was very clear, it was asked repeatedly. But what's important in the end after all the times the question was put, the answer was, from Mr. Dion, that he does not have a plan, that if he is elected he would spend 30 days trying to create one."
French reporters pointed out that Harper himself had used the incorrect word in French for trillion.
The party arranged for a television set to be brought to the hotel lobby so that party officials and the travelling media could view the scene.
Then, in a first ever for a campaign in which Harper has only made himself available once a day, early on, the campaign delayed its flight, and the Prime Minister met with reporters to say the fact Dion could not grasp a simple economic question betrays his inability to manage the economy.
The interview was aired by ATV, CTV's Atlantic affiliate, and later on by the national political show Mike Duffy Live.
In it, host Steve Murphy asks Dion: "If you were prime minister now, what would you have done about the economy and this crisis that Mr. Harper has not done?"
Dion struggles to understand the question's conditional subjunctive tense.
"If I would have been prime minister two and a half years ago?"
"If you were the prime minister right now?" responds the anchor.
"If I'm elected next Tuesday, this Tuesday is what you're suggesting?" asks Dion.
"No, I'm saying if you hypothetically were prime minister today," Murphy asks.
Dion attempts to answer, stumbling as he describes his 30-day, five point plan for post-election consultations as a "30-50 plan, in fact the plan for the first 80 days once we would have a Liberal government. Can we stop it now," asks Dion. "Because I think I was a bit slow to understand your question. And I don't think it would be good TV."
The anchor agrees to repose the question, and the it descends into a somewhat farcical and embarrassing encounter as Dion and the host try to make themselves understood.
On take two, Dion says: "Again I don't understand the question, because you ask me to be prime minister at which moment? Today? Or since a week or 60 weeks?"
Dion asks for a third take, and tries to understand as an aide explains off-camera what the question is. "Yes but if I would have been prime minister two years ago, I would have had an agenda," he says to his aide. "Let's start again."
THIS IS A NONPARTISAN JOKE THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY All PARTIES! NOT ONLY THAT-- it is POLITICALLY CORRECT!!
While walking down the street one day a 'Member of Parliment' is tragically hit by a truck and dies.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
'Welcome to heaven,' says St. Peter. 'Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you.'
'No problem, just let me in,' says the man.
'Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.'
'Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,' says the MP.
'I'm sorry, but we have our rules.'
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They play a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly & nice guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes.
They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises...
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him.
'Now it's time to visit heaven.'
So, 24 hours pass with the MP joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing.
They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
'Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity.'
The MP reflects for a minute, then he answers: 'Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.'
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. 'I don't understand,' stammers the MP. 'Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
What happened?'
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, 'Yesterday we were campaigning.. ..
