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Rhetorical question of the day

by Aaron Wherry on Monday, October 19, 2009 3:33pm - 23 Comments

Liberal Todd Russell, yelling in the direction of Rob Nicholson this afternoon as the Justice Minister took a friendly question about crime legislation.

“What’s the mandatory minimum for cheque fraud?”

Tags: Crime, giant novelty cheques, government advertising, government spending, house of commons, infrastructure, mandatory minimums, Parliament, political advertising, Question Period, Rob Nicholson, Todd Russell

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http://intensedebate.com/people/avr avr

Criminal Code, S. 362. Hybrid offense, no minimum sentence.

What a zinger. Let's hear him repeat the implied accusation outside the House, hm?

Dave

What accusation is implied there?

http://intensedebate.com/people/Gaunilon Gaunilon

What's the mandatory minimum for blatant exaggeration?
http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

Somebody should launch a website dedicated to the juvenille, jerkish, stupid, and classless remarks floated about by our MPs during Question Period. (I already thought of the Hansard joke, but I'm being semi-serious here).

I'm envisioning a non-partisan attempt to shame these idiots into acting with at least the pretense of honour and civility.
http://intensedebate.com/people/psiclone psiclone

accusing a person of a crime is a crime = outside the house!

http://intensedebate.com/people/SeanStok SeanStok

Let's not get too carried away. I agree this sort of bullsh*t needs to stop, and Russell is an idiot for acting out that way. But I think it can fairly be interpreted as a juvenille attempt at exaggerative humour, as opposed to a bona fide charge of fraud.

Holly Stick

Good question. Here is another; why hasn't the RCMP fraud squad been called in yet? And why do conservative who blat about law and order refuse to obey they law?

Dakota

Do you think anyone actually tried to cash those novelty checks? You do realize they aren't real don't you? Just in case you've never actually earned a check in your life I’ll fill you in, real checks are quite a bit smaller.

Justin

What about real cheques? Are real cheques smaller?

Dakota

Smaller then novelty checks, yes. Someday when you get a job and earn a check you'll actually see one for yourself.

http://intensedebate.com/people/OntarioTown OntarioTown

Perhaps you should finish school – in Canada it's spelled "cheques"….

Holly Stick

Actually I believe novelty cheques can be used as legal cheques. But since most Canadians are more honest than the corrupt Harperites, they probably have not tried to cash them.

http://www.robobb.com Tom Watson

Whats the maximum size a cheque has to be in order to be considered novelty? Some of the cheques even have fake numbers on the bottom to look official to me.

Dave

They should like totally write a cheque on the side of a cow.

dan in van

Seems like with a bloated cabinet, a bloated budget, bloated cheques and a so-called leader with a bloated opinion of himself, this is indeed a novelty government…
I thought Russell's snark was at least witty.
http://intensedebate.com/people/OntarioTown OntarioTown

When you consider some of the heckling from the blue side, it's mild.
http://intensedebate.com/people/SisyphusThis SisyphusThis

Why doesn't one of Mr. Wells' smart people invent bank transfers.

We can have photo booths at a work station. A debit card with a party logo.

The possibilities are endless ….. and have been for years.

Even the pizza boys don't take cheques these days …. only in the fantasy land
of political coverage. Please.
http://theplaceofbiff.blogspot.com biff

Nothing says you're ready to govern like throwing out shrill suggestions of criminal conduct while you're party plummets in the polls.

Dave

Huh?

dan in van

Nothing says you're ready to govern like throwing out shrill suggestions of criminal conduct while hiding behind the cover a law suit… See even Harper plays Biff's games!
wilson

“What’s the mandatory minimum for cheque fraud?”

The smart money goes into brown envelopes so it can't be traced.
Right Liberals?