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BTC: Dominic LeBlanc, a man of some wit

by Aaron Wherry on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:04am - 30 Comments

Dominic LeBlanc has not appeared here as regularly as some—he’s generally one of the opposition’s finer performers—but his mentions have at least been for mildly amusing reasons. Like this, from October 2007. Arguably the funniest moment of Canada’s 39th Parliament (with all apologies to Peter Van Loan’s oeuvre).

“For reasons unknown, the Liberal backbencher turned to the Speaker at one point on Thursday and asked, ‘Wajid Khan’s hairpiece, is that a prop?’ Then, to the delight of his colleagues he proclaimed, ‘He’s hiding something under the rug’ and ‘Just sweep that under the rug.’”

All right, so not quite comedic genius. But sitting in the gallery one can’t get too selective, lest one lose all hope.

There are also a couple pieces here on LeBlanc’s attempts to conduct a proper press conference—Technical Difficulties and Stick to the Facts. Feel free to extrapolate from them great meaning for his Prime Ministerial ambitions.

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boudica

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They can be shaken loose by the LPC is they can get a decent center-left leader and refrain from sabotaging him before, during, and after the campaign.

Uniting the Left is the best way to take on Harper. Going for the center-right will only serve to coalesce the mounting NDP and Green support.
boudica

Now that McKenna has pulled out, open war will now be declared between Rae and Iggy’s camps.
Wayne

What will be hilarious is that Bobby and Iggy are going to play nice for the next while until the field starts to fill up then they will carve out the support each thinks they need and at the end of it all the LPC will choose a compromise candidate … after all that strategy worked so very well for them the last time!
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