- The third of five Liberal leadership debates was held in Mississauga this afternoon and The Space Man Marc Garbeau quickly brought The Space Cadet Justin Trudeau back down to earth with a loud thud.
- In a move that was anathema to the win-at-all-costs Liberals (even if you need to nominate The Ikea Monkey to get elected), Garneau had the bad form to ask young Trudeau the one question that nobody outside of Liberal circles has been able to answer thus far.
- Explaining to the young man that this was a job interview, Garneau asked Trudeau, "What in your résumé qualifies you to be the leader of the country?"
- A visibly uncomfortable Trudeau responded that "Leadership is about drawing people in, and about involving Canadians in the kinds of conversations we have, and you can't lead from a podium in a press conference, you can't win over Canadians with a five-point plan, you have to connect with them. And we have to make room for Canadians in the debate that we have coming forward."
- This bit of buffoonish bafflegab - something about being able to suck people in by not having a five point or any other plan and to have tons of conversations but no press conferences or podiums - quite naturally did not convince Garneau that The Space Cadet had the relevant experience, accomplishments, judgement and policies to even dream of running a party let alone a country so Marc gave it another go.
- In Take Two, The Space Man asked The Space Cadet, "If we're talking policy, you haven't really addressed specific policy to the middle class. You've spoken in generalities. You and I are both competing for a job... what is it in your résumé that qualifies you to be the future prime minister of Canada?"
- Responded Trudeau Junior, "I fought extremely hard to earn a nomination in Papineau that involved going up against strong Liberals and convincing people to come together under my leadership."
- Loosely translated, Justin's answer was that because he inherited the Trudeau fortune and also the Trudeau name which got him some lucrative speaking gigs, he could afford to devote most of two years to engage in non-stop campaiging to win a seat in Montreal in 2008 which, along with his father's name, enabled him to win the seat in 2008 and again in 2011.
- So when one strips the answer down to its essence, Junior says that he is as qualified as any of the other 307 politicians who won federal elections in 2008 and 2011.
- Like anyone else with a functioning cerebral cortex and not blinded by the heavenly hair, the dreamy eyes and the family name, Garneau was not satisfied with this non-answer either and began to ask the question a third time.
- Lucky Junior was saved from having to try again when the three-minute clock for the one-on-one debate between The Space Man and The Space Cadet ran out.
- What a desperate, bordering on farcical organization the Liberal party is fast becoming.
- If they are so shallow and stupid and cynical as to nominate this singularly unaccomplished and embarrassingly unqualified kid as their new leader, they will have taken another giant step toward their just reward in the dustbin of history.
- As Marc Garneau put it earlier in the week at a press conference: "as Liberals we can not afford to wait until after the leadership race to find out what we signed up for. Justin has stated that now is not the time to tell Liberals, to tell Canadians, where he stands and what his plan is for the country. He has said he will do this after the leadership race, sometime before the next election in 2015. In my opinion, this is the same as asking Canadians to buy a new car without test-driving it. He has told Canadians that we need a bold plan and a clear vision without defining either. On Justin's two clear priorities, the middle class and youth engagement he has said nothing,"
- In a move that was anathema to the win-at-all-costs Liberals (even if you need to nominate The Ikea Monkey to get elected), Garneau had the bad form to ask young Trudeau the one question that nobody outside of Liberal circles has been able to answer thus far.
- Explaining to the young man that this was a job interview, Garneau asked Trudeau, "What in your résumé qualifies you to be the leader of the country?"
- A visibly uncomfortable Trudeau responded that "Leadership is about drawing people in, and about involving Canadians in the kinds of conversations we have, and you can't lead from a podium in a press conference, you can't win over Canadians with a five-point plan, you have to connect with them. And we have to make room for Canadians in the debate that we have coming forward."
- This bit of buffoonish bafflegab - something about being able to suck people in by not having a five point or any other plan and to have tons of conversations but no press conferences or podiums - quite naturally did not convince Garneau that The Space Cadet had the relevant experience, accomplishments, judgement and policies to even dream of running a party let alone a country so Marc gave it another go.
- In Take Two, The Space Man asked The Space Cadet, "If we're talking policy, you haven't really addressed specific policy to the middle class. You've spoken in generalities. You and I are both competing for a job... what is it in your résumé that qualifies you to be the future prime minister of Canada?"
- Responded Trudeau Junior, "I fought extremely hard to earn a nomination in Papineau that involved going up against strong Liberals and convincing people to come together under my leadership."
- Loosely translated, Justin's answer was that because he inherited the Trudeau fortune and also the Trudeau name which got him some lucrative speaking gigs, he could afford to devote most of two years to engage in non-stop campaiging to win a seat in Montreal in 2008 which, along with his father's name, enabled him to win the seat in 2008 and again in 2011.
- So when one strips the answer down to its essence, Junior says that he is as qualified as any of the other 307 politicians who won federal elections in 2008 and 2011.
- Like anyone else with a functioning cerebral cortex and not blinded by the heavenly hair, the dreamy eyes and the family name, Garneau was not satisfied with this non-answer either and began to ask the question a third time.
- Lucky Junior was saved from having to try again when the three-minute clock for the one-on-one debate between The Space Man and The Space Cadet ran out.
- What a desperate, bordering on farcical organization the Liberal party is fast becoming.
- If they are so shallow and stupid and cynical as to nominate this singularly unaccomplished and embarrassingly unqualified kid as their new leader, they will have taken another giant step toward their just reward in the dustbin of history.
- As Marc Garneau put it earlier in the week at a press conference: "as Liberals we can not afford to wait until after the leadership race to find out what we signed up for. Justin has stated that now is not the time to tell Liberals, to tell Canadians, where he stands and what his plan is for the country. He has said he will do this after the leadership race, sometime before the next election in 2015. In my opinion, this is the same as asking Canadians to buy a new car without test-driving it. He has told Canadians that we need a bold plan and a clear vision without defining either. On Justin's two clear priorities, the middle class and youth engagement he has said nothing,"
