Chow Lies to Save Face

Olivia Chow, has learned to exploit and manipulate the lapdog media. In a recent press conference, complete with clever visual aids, she tried to make her point that having your lies broadcast on the national media makes them true. It may be convenient and elevating to her personally, her Communist party agenda may be accelerated; but, Olivia, you're lying.

Without the convenient charts and references in her hand-outs I'm unsure as to the details, but she mentioned her "question" on Child Care to Ms Finlay, the Minister responsible for Social Development and Human Resources. She didn't mention she was embarrassed and laughed down. She did mention that Ms Finlay responded to her thoughtful and insightful submission as if it made sense to her. Ms Chow's recall on Ms Finlay's response was something like, "she said that she'd look at it".

Well, if you have access to the Common's record (Hansard) that records her exact words for all to see and if you watched the tape where she got up to ask her question, Ms Chow's recollection of that response wasn't quite accurate. In actual fact Ms Finlay's response was:

Mr. Speaker, for starters, I would like to assure the hon. member that we have not reached the 75% tax rate in this country. Our intention with the $1,200 a year child care allowance is to have a universal benefit. It will, as the Prime Minister said repeatedly during the election campaign, be taxed in the hands of the lowest earning parent. Therefore if there is a stay at home parent who earns zero dollars there is no tax on that.

I don't see what Ms Chow recalled. I see her being mocked for her laughable miscalculations. She was disposed of by a member of the Cabinet, in the House of Commons. Taking your argument to the press, as her hubby Layton is wont to do, won't change the government's mind.

If you have the numbers and authorities assisting your perspective, present it in the Commons. We don't rule by opinion poll or media sway. And, when you get laughed down again, you can always lie to the press that you are doing a great job. Just don't make it compulsive behaviour. Someone, like the Canadian citizens, might be watching.

Check out an earlier post on Ms Chow's question