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Barry Artiste
"Waffles Dion", Canada's Liberal Opposition Leader charges his meeting with the Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper was nothing more than a "Well Played Charade!"
Certainly Mr. Dion, didn't expect the "Charade Mat" on the Prime Minister's floor would be rolled out with curtsys and kisses. There is bound to be a few twists and turns on both sides.
One can guess It was all "Brass Tacks", and Stephane "Neddie Flanders" Dion doesn't play that way, preferring his Charades, much like his Clueless Political Savy "Plain Water Thanks" with plenty of "Plain Waffles fer Dippin!".
So a fall election is in the making, and Dion is ready with unlimited amounts of political "Maple Syrup" in hand, whether for a fall election or more Waffles, only IHOP can guess.
As for me, Well I am more a bacon and eggs kind of guy, with pan fries, toast and coffee on the side.
"Plain Water and Bread for Dippin" along with Dion and the Liberals platform of a "Carbon Tax" for Canadians, just ain't on my menu.
(Photo inset) Liberal Leader Stephane Dion leaves 24 Sussex Drive following a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Dion calls meeting with Harper a 'charade'
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says he left a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Monday afternoon with a clear message: There will be a fall election.
CTV.ca News Staff "
(Harper) doesn't want Canadians to have too much time to see he is ill-prepared to face the economy . . . he doesn't want to face byelections," Dion told reporters.
Dion called the 20-minute meeting a "charade" and repeatedly took Harper to task for his willingness to call an election before the fixed election date of October 2009.
Sources say Harper will dissolve Parliament by this Sunday and set an election date for Oct. 14 of this year. The prime minister's spokesperson, Kory Teneycke, said that Dion was asked if he would support the Conservative minority government until the fixed election date, but refused. "Mr. Dion could find no area of common ground with the government to move forward with a legislative agenda," Teneycke told reporters.
But Dion said that the Liberals have opposed the Conservatives from the start of the minority government in 2006 and said that the prime minister was being politically opportunistic in his election timing.
Teneycke countered that, "We are in uncertain economic times and there are a number of things that government would like to move forward on and it's fair to say that the atmosphere has become more partisan.
"The opposition clearly wants an election." CTV's Mike Duffy said that Dion played exactly the way that Conservatives expected him to and said Harper will be able to say on the campaign trail that he tried to work with the opposition.
"There will be some Liberals . . . that say, 'Jean Chrétien would never have fallen into this trap,'" Duffy told CTV Newsnet Monday afternoon.
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