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Dean Del Mastro is disappointed in you

by Aaron Wherry on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 11:29am - 96 Comments

The Conservative MP for Peterborough pines for simpler times, before television and the Internet messed everything up.

Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro said he doesn’t understand the controversy surrounding his government’s decision to prorogue Parliament until March 3. ”I don’t really understand the current reaction. Government has been prorogued 105 times,” Del Mastro told a group of Rotarians. “Maybe Canadians just don’t understand that that’s been part of our parliamentary system since we formed it.”

Del Mastro made the comments Monday, fielding questions after speaking to the Rotary Club of Peterborough during its weekly meeting at the Holiday Inn. Del Mastro pointed the finger at the media as part of the reason many Canadians have voiced anger about the issue. ”The fact that this has been highlighted is probably an effect of 24-hour news,” he said.

Tags: Dean del Mastro, house of commons, Parliament, Peterborough, prorogation, Prorogue, proroguing

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Stan L

Dean Dean Dean…….it's not the tool of prorogation bud, it's how you used it……funny with all that media he is so disappointed in, you think he might have picked that very basic point up by now.

Anon

Poor Dean has had a life of disappointment.

Can you imagine how hard it was in high school to get a date with that mug?

Mommy probably had to tie a pork chop around his neck so that the dogs would play with him.

frobisher

Not a fan of Del Mastro, but seriously, please knock off the attacks on the guy's girth and appearance.. Stick to his dim-witted-ness. It's far more corpulent.

Michele227

See, Del Mastro's mistake is thinking we are as stupid as he is.
Anon

OK dim witted, not fat, foolish, and butt ugly.

Better?
Terren

Does he think we're all stupid?

http://intensedebate.com/people/sea_n_mountains sea_n_mountains

YES! But this affliction is not specific to the Del Maestro. This is a party that brought you other top 40 gems like:

* if there was gonna be a recession we would have had it by now.
* only Stephane Dion will cause a recession
* I won't appoint senators..until i will.
* a photo album instead of a policy platform in the last election
* cutting the GST is a good idea
* a coalition = a coup
* the economic stimulus caused the deficit
* a sitting parliament is too unstable for financial markets

and that all time favourite, among others, we are gonna do things differently!
Anon

No, not us. Just the voters in his riding.
http://intensedebate.com/people/NotStephen Not Stephen Colbert

No, but he thinks that enough of us are.
Anon

I guess he must.

I mean where can a man of zero character like him get elected?

Is Peterborough ready to give the boot to that fat joke?
http://intensedebate.com/people/danby danby

He's just not very perceptive

http://intensedebate.com/people/danby danby

The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

The Harper government's inability to admit mistakes is going to haunt them

Talking points like those spouted by Dean Del Mastro just make things worse and worse.

Keep 'em coming

jarrid

I like the form danby, content's a little pedestrian.
Anon

Don't tell Dean that he just might decide to grow a brain.

Highly unlikely

But hey where's there's life there's hope right?

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

Oh c'mon, you're acting like a 12 year old here. Are the personal attacks really necessary?
http://intensedebate.com/people/jolyon jolyon

“Maybe Canadians just don’t understand that that’s been part of our parliamentary system since we formed it.”

Cons should be ashamed that they are blaming voter ignorance rather than themselves. Voters are always correct, political parties and their tactics are always wrong.

Canadians understand alright, the problem is that our MPs fcuk the dog all too often and make us wonder why do we have MPs in first place if this is best they can do.

http://intensedebate.com/people/danby danby

Harper effectively shaped the "backlash" vote against the Liberals. Isn't it funny that he can't see the same thing happening to himself?

http://intensedebate.com/people/jolyon jolyon

I was wondering about this last week when the polls were released and showed Con support was down, Other was up, and Libs/NDP were about the same. I didn't delve into poll numbers to check but it seems to me that Cons/cons are not happy with their party but have yet to decide what to do next.

Anon

Yes all true.

Time to buy Dean a membership to Jenny Craig as a farewell present.

Don't let the door hit your fat ass on the way out.

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

Geez, enough already. You don't know his personal health issues, etc. do you.

Grow up.

I don't care about his weight, that's his issue to deal with. I care about his politics and how it affects our country
knick

Anon = strawman sockpuppet?

Jodi

Mr. Del Maestro fits in well with the ‘under cloak of darkness’ mentality of Mr.Harper. Just imagine what they could do, if people quit paying attention all together.

While most of the media is biased, they are our voices and it is their responsibility to shine the light in dark corners…….and ASK the tough questions.

Anon

With a mug like Deans's under a cloak is where he belongs.

knick

Sadly, he probably doesn't. It seems inconceivable to the Harper gang that anyone would ever question their motives. It's like they're hard-wired to willfully ignore logic, reason, or the truth.
guest

If Dean blames the outrage over prorogation on the media why does he use the media so much to promote his own agendas? Is the media only "good" if his face is plastered on the front page and reporting his news, but as soon as it presents something he disagrees with it's "bad" ?

No Dean, the fury was not caused by the media. Furthermore, close to four hundred people took to the streets to express their disappointment with Parliment being shut down once again. Many of those protesters were conservatives who voted for Dean in the last election.

Why is Dean still hiding from CAPP members who have been trying to contact him to discuss the issues? I remember Dean stating that prorogation would give him an opportunity to interact and discuss issues with the people in his riding. Now he's hiding from those very same people.

Dean is being paid a lot of money to do his job. The problem is….he's not doing it and can't seem to comprehend that by ignoring the public he is digging his own grave.
Steve

But most (100+) of those prorogations are because there was no recess procedure in place. They used to have to prorog in order to have a christmas break. There are are maybe 3 examples to pull out, and none of them involve killing commitees as they are about to to subpoena witnesses to show the current government has lied.

And Del Masto is a big Fat Lying Used Car Salesman.
http://www.valkyri.org Terri Elvald

Back to that are we? I was quoted on radio out here in Simcoe County explaining this with a very succinct analogy, and I know that a certain Bruce Stanton heard it, and replied as ignorantly.

I said, taking your clothes off every day is also a regular usual thing that everyone does every day. We take off our clothes before bed, and before our showers. However, we don't take off our clothes in the middle of the office during the afternoon. 105 times Parliament was prorogued because it was time to prorogue. This is not the time to prorogue.

When Stanton came back saying, "we *are* working" I thought to myself, I didn't say they weren't working. I said they were doing it naked. The Emperor is certainly wearing his new clothes, isn't he? We are the children screaming it out.

How nice of Hans Christian Andersen to write a nice story about Stephen Harper.
Denise

This portrait of Del Masto is a photocopy of many conservative MP.
Blainey in Quebec is one of them: saying absurd things thinking we are idiot.
He argued lateley that all bills will come back as before the prorogation.
Of course, he was recall to order by opposition MPs so he said:
"Maybe I'm wrong, I wll check on that."..
So like Del Masto: either they are really ingorant or they spin, and more so if nobody is there to stop them liyng…