I mean other then the Green Shift that is...
This morning while getting ready for a day out with the the family I was listening in to CTV Newsnet. Yeah, I know, big surprise. :)
So as I tune in, I see Stephane Dion giving a stump speech, switching between French and English as they are wont to do. Not really paying that much attention, Dion switches to French, the translator kicks in.
This translator is amazing, translating in from French to English smoothly, without the usual pauses and struggles for words and contexts. I point this out to my wife.
She listens for a second and says "He is reading from a speech, that is not what Dion is saying". My wife is a Francophone. They were similar, but it was definitely not the same. Both of us commented that this was the first time we had ever seen that before. Is Dion trying to pass a different message to English Canada then to French Canada?
Within a few minutes of Dion finishing his stump speech Harper comes on, he gives his speech, flowing just as effortlessly between and French and English. But, and this is a big but, when Harper is giving his speech in French a normal translator is translating his French to English.
So I have to ask myself, what is Dion hiding? Is he trying to spin a different message to French and English Canada?
Has anyone else ever seen an French stump speech given with an English speech for the translator?
We're better off with Harper
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CTV would never do that would they? HA!! Maybe it's because no-one understands Dion in either language, so they requested a transcript.
pakcwSo is this CTV's new slogan?
"Reporting all the news that's fit to report, after checking with the Liberals"
pakcwSo is this CTV's new slogan?
Sorry, not quite sure what pakcw is all about.....
More importantly, what's the media missing? Seems they can't bring themselves to report on Dion's utter disregard for meeting Elections Canada deadlines for reporting the progress of paying off his Leadership Campaign debts.
My understanding is that he was supposed to file (again) by Oct 3/08, and to have reduced his outstanding debt of about $660,000 by $220,000 on that date. Yet I can find nothing at Elections Canada's site. And this is in spite of extension after extension having been granted to him and Fry, Dryden, Ignatieff, I believe.
If Dion can't manage his campaign finances, and can't meet simple legal deadlines for reporting, how can Canadians expect him to manage our economy and vastly more serious and complex issues?
"If Dion can't manage his campaign finances, and can't meet simple legal deadlines for reporting, how can Canadians expect him to manage our economy and vastly more serious and complex issues?"
Funny, I would think that the media would be all over this - HA HA.
Dion can thank is lucky stars that he has a liberal friendly media because if the media reported on Dion and the Liberals like they do the Tories, he would be at the bottom of every poll.
So I am guessing no one has seen the "translator" reading from a script before instead of actually translating?
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