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Originally Posted by Slava
I don't doubt for a second that you should be able to speak both official languages to lead the country. My issue with this is two-fold:
A) Harper is looking at a beating in Quebec. Everyone who piles onto Dion for not speaking english well has to acknowledge that being the Prime Minister and not winning seats in Quebec is a huge short-coming.
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Agreed, but I don't really even think Dion's capture of the french language is going to help him out as the Bloc seems to have regained their strangle hold there. Quebec as a province to me is almost a waste of time in terms of spilling a lot of political capital there, to me creating a message just for Quebec puts you badly out of sync with the rest of Canada and vice versa. Quebec is the one province that really is going to block any party from ever taking a majority as long as the Block holds the power that it does.
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Originally Posted by Slava
B) Dealing with the media is really what this issue is about. Dion didn't do well understanding the question and was told it was going to be cut and not aired. My business partner was interviewed for a program a few weeks ago and the exact same thing happened to him. Believe me, my business partner is fluent in english and speaks very well. If those clips were in the final product after we were explicitly told that they would not be we would be furious, and I think rightly so.
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I guess you and me are going to disagree, to me the media in terms of this event really has no right to agree not to air footage unless they're going to give the same courtesy to every party, (ie Harper should have asked for the stock purchase gap to be removed from the video). Convesley I don't believe that the gaffer should be asking for footage not to air, the media doesn't report to anyone except the general public and they shouldn't be deciding what is relevant news and what isn't, thats up to the viewing public to decide.
The media also works by a completely different set of ethics so the Liberals should realize that they should be less furious about believing that the media wouldn't go forward and more furious that they didn't prepare Dion better for a interview like they did for the English debate.
To me its a non starter, I'm not judging these Candidates based on their public perfomances, I'm judging who's going to not screw this country into the ground.