Apolitical Staples

Damn right it’s embarassing. I hope other countries don’t look at what passes for debate in Canada because if they did, they’d be laughing.

I was waivering as to whether I would go through with my $160 donation to the CPC. The budget made me think twice but now it’s officially off. There is no way I donate to a liberal-lite party that wastes the nations’ time and money on a non issue. Pathetic. The CPC needs to get its act together. They should have shot down Coderre the minute this came up, time to show some leadership.

Keith it is a minority government that can not shout this kind of stuff down. The really sad thing is that the people who orchestrated this gong show have no class whatsoever and they are using political stunts to besmirch the reputation of a really good person who has already been found not guilty.Those jack asses need to look in the mirror at who they are or who they have become.

I agree. This is absolute nonsense. We’re blacklisting hockey players for things they allegedly said. Then some of these people turn around and pretend they care about human rights, especially for Taliban prisoners. I thought the presumption of innocence was a cornerstone human right. Guess I was completely wrong. My goodness.

hmmm let’s see

Liberals and Bloc at historic lows in the Quebec polls & desperate for an issue to rally round.

Nope, no coincidence. Liberals & The Bloc would never be this low, smear someone this badly. Nvere.

I’d send Don Cherry in to “respond” to the allegations and the get the Committee investigated for Human rights violations for wanting to act on allegations, to deny Mr. Doan his job. you know he is innocent until proven guilty, or in hos case guilty after being proven not guilty.

ian:

It doesn’t matter that the Conservatives couldn’t have stopped this. They could have at least VOTED AGAINST IT, and denounced it for the garbage that it is, an outright character assassination based on an 18-month old rumour that nobody was ever able to prove. Instead they voted right along with the Liberal, NDP, and Bloc jackyls so that they wouldn’t appear to be anti-French, or somesuch politically-correct crap.

I barely know who the Conservatives are any more.

This sorry spectacle needs to be brought to an end. Has anybody heard one real person (i.e. not a politician or one of their Stockholm Syndrome suffering media companions) state that having Doan as cation of Team Canada is an issue for them?

I thought not.

Ian in NS is right. The least the Conservatives could have done is object to the Bloc motion, and ridicule the other parties for going along with it. Instead, they supported the motion, and that damn fool of a Labour Minister, Jean-Pierre Blackburn is out there saying they had no choice but to look into the matter, given the gravity of the accusations against Shane Doan. I can accept that the constraints of public opinion limit how conservative the Conservatives can be on economic and environmental issues, but there is no justification for failing to put the opposition in its place for abusing Shane Doan for political gain. I am more appalled by the actions of the government on this matter than I am by the ugly clownishness of the opposition, because I hold the Conservatives alone to higher standards of decency.

They have to discuss stupidities and trivialities in Parliament. It’s what they do. This institution is an Alice-in-Wonderland teaparty for fools and sluggards who couldn’t make it in their home town, but whose ambition stretches much farther than their talent (and morals).

People don’t need what the federal parliament is giving them. They don’t need them to siphon off half their income and use 40% of it to buy votes from bumpkins, 40% of it to stuff into their own pockets and the pockets of their friends, and then use the rest to provide crappy services.

If they didn’t spend most of their time arguing about inane concepts such as what rights of free speech a hockey player enjoys, then sooner or later the public would start to notice that even the “serious” things Parliament gets up to are nothing but elaborate confidence tricks played on taxpayers.

Such crying show let people believe that us, French Canadians, never trash talked against the Anglos…cmon!!!

Answer to Ian: One of the four French referees in charge that night is a close friend of mine. I can confirm you that yes Doan said that they were F… Frenchmen, but who cares! Nagy also said it, but nobody cares about him.

I am a French Canadian and Doan’s statement doesn’t bother me at all. There are always two sides to a medal.

Blame it on Coderre who’s searching any kind of publicity in Quebec.

They’ve got the wrong guy. I think Dryden is really uncomfortable with this issue. He’s was interviewed by Duffy and said things can be said at tense moments in a hockey game (he should know, he played for Montreal). He said the hockey people should be deciding this, not parliament.

I really think parliament is going through the motions to try to end the BLOC from using this. In other word, we’ve had the hearing and let’s move on.

It’s Don Cherry who should be up on the carpet. He’s the bigoted and mouthy one. His views are heard everywhere (like Don Imus). The exchange between players is just that - between them and not heard by the world.

If they really want to be convincing about their concerns about racist remarks, why didn’t they step on Cherry?

I said something of the same thing over at Bound by Gravity.

It’s not that big of deal. We aren’t the only country in the world to debate such things.

In the US, baseball is discussed in Congress. The Anti-Trust Exemption it received in 1922 was threatened to be taken away if MLB doesn’t agree to what Congress said during the investigation of steroids. Not only that but Bush mentioned steroids in baseball during the State of the Union address.

In Italy, the investigations into match fixing was surely brought up in Parliament.

In Canada we had the Dublin Inquiry after Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal due to politics. Some good came out of that.

If the hockey association wants recognition from the Prime Minister after they win a gold medal at the Olympics or the World Juniors, why can’t they be held to some accountability on who they picked as their captain? Or if the hockey association wants some federal money to help cover the costs of cities hosting world championships, why shouldn’t we question who their captain is?

Bailey, who says they want recognition from the PM? I think they are so happy when they wins they don’t care if some government official says something or not. This isn’t the issue though. There is no evidence that Doan ever said this to the linesman! We can’t assign an arbitrary punishment (ie. you can be on the team, just not captain) for something that he hasn’t been proven to have done!

In Canada we had the Dublin Inquiry after Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal due to politics. Some good came out of that.

A lot of good came out of the inquiry. Millions of dollars of the public money was given to lawyers, bureaucratic knobs, etc., the Canadian government nearly broke an arm patting itself on the back for winning such a great moral victory, and the Olympics are still a government-subsidized quagmire of cheating and corruption.

If the hockey association wants recognition from the Prime Minister after they win a gold medal at the Olympics or the World Juniors, why can’t they be held to some accountability on who they picked as their captain?

Yeah. The government rips tens of $millions away from the members of the hockey association in the form of taxes, uses most of the money to line their own pockets, to build up a huge bureaucracy and to buy votes in various parts of the country … but then they “grant” $1 million to the association so they can hold their championships. Therefore, the hockey association must jump when they’re summoned to a parliamentary kangaroo court where they will be called racists for allegedly failing to enforce with sufficient vigor the politicians’ vision for a linguistically-inclusive socialist utopia.

And this is OK because the idiot politicians in other countries also love to jam their big noses and their boots into sports, and the foreign athletic associations are also too afraid of being defunded or regulated out of existence to tell the politicians to f**k off.

Today my favorite radio station started to be polluted with ads bragging about how we’re going to get “really tough” with carbon emissions. Looks like more and more people are going to become dependent on government “grants” and will be getting summoned to appear in the Star Chamber of Idiots if they appear to be insufficiently grateful.

If there was a French-Canadian on the team, I suspect the Bloc wouldn’t be shooting their mouths off in case the francophone told them to screw themselves, that he was standing by his captain.

But the only Quebecer who accepted an invitation is, I understand, an Anglo from Montreal. So…

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