The only thing I'd like to add to that as a former resident of Etobicoke who lived within the Richview Collegiate school area but didn't go there...ahem...TORONTO — Stephen Harper plagiarized from a former Australian leader's speech when he supported the Iraq war as Opposition leader in March 2003, the Liberals alleged Tuesday in releasing transcripts and video of striking similarities in the two speeches.
The speech delivered by former Australian prime minister John Howard on March 18, 2003 and one by Harper two days later in the House of Commons share the same tone, ideas and, in some instances, have phrases that are nearly identical, according to the transcripts.
Liberal Leader Stephane Dion called it "plagiarism" but added the context in which it occurred is "even worse."
"It's about Stephen Harper saying that Canada should go with the war in Iraq," Dion said in Gatineau, Que.
"He's unable to choose his own words, he chose the words of (U.S. President George W. Bush's) coalition of the willing."
Even Harper's critics thought the speech was eloquent at the time, but now it appears to be a case of lifting someone else's words, Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae said in Toronto, where the material was released.
"(Harper) couldn't and didn't find Canada's voice, so he begged borrowed or stole someone else's voice," Liberal Bob Rae said.
"This isn't just deeply embarrassing for Mr. Harper. I suspect he would've been expelled from (his high school) Richview Collegiate, let alone a university, for pulling this kind of a stunt."
Richview Sucks.
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Richview Sucks...wah,wah,wah
Oh yeah?
Well, if our 50th reunion proved anything -- the girls from the class of '87 are STILL all bona fide, dyed-in-their-Ralph Lauren BABES!
Not to defend one of these Junkyard Dogs -- but I guess you're okay with the Liberals plagiarizing somebody else's trademarked name for their "Green Shift" -- for which they're now rightfully being sued.
Let's not forget that Fox News went after Barack Obama (a guy I believe we both believe in) about six months ago for "stealing" a speech from the Massachusetts Governor and Joe Biden was excoriated a few years back for nicking the good bits from a Neil Kinnock opus.
This is just pointless noise from Bob Rae, a guy who went on a $5 Million Taxpayer funded wine and cheese jaunt with the Governor General while Toronto's food banks were rationing their clients.
We all know the point of this "gotcha" was to remind us Harper backed the Iraq War...um, like Michael Ignatief, who also wrote all warm and fuzzy in support of American torture.
Although -- today's reports on the new book by the former Foreign Minister's Biker Bimbo claims he was angry at Harper for opposing sending Canadian troops to Iraq.
So -- which smut monger are we to believe?
All's I'm sayin' DMc -- is just stop shilling for the Illuminati. Win or lose, they won't be there to back you when all this is over.
Oh -- and BTW, I think I heard one of the cops on "The Border" holler "Freeze!" and that first appeared in the 1971 film "The French Connection".
Now I doubt anybody's going to claim somebody copied that, but it might give people the impression the series is trying to look like a TV show from the 70's...
Oh -- wait...
Love as always...
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