IGNATIEFF VS. HARPER: WHO'S WHO?

  All right. I know. This isn't an original concept. The Guardian did it a while ago with Charlie Sheen and Muammar Gadhafi, and a surprising number of people couldn't tell the quotations of the two raving lunatics apart..

   So, I thought it might be interesting, with a federal election looking more and more likely here in Canada, to see whether Canadians can actually tell the leaders of the two main parties apart.   After all, both of them keep telling voters there couldn't be two more starkly different politicians.

   So let's put that to the test, shall we? Here are 10 quotations from our Conservative Prime Minister and our Liberal Leader of the Opposition. See if you can guess - without cheating - who said what, and give me your answers in the Comments section. I'll give you the correct responses in my next post.

 

1. “And I think the real problem that we're facing already is that the government doesn't accept that it got a minority.”

2. “If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.”

3. “Canadians want a country. They don't want a community of communities. I'm committed to the national unity of the country.”

4.“Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.”

5. "There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers."

6.“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly
losing its moral authority to govern.”

7."I admire and respect American institutions.”

8. “We can win because it is time for a change, time to move forward, time to get beyond the scandals and investigations and corruption.”

9. "There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."

10. "To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war."

Comments

[John Cargill]

Hmmm. Got my trusty dice out ... and roll!

1. Ignatieff
2. Harper
3. Ignatieff
4. Harper
5. Harper
6. Harper
7. Ignatieff
8. Harper
9. Harper
10. Ignatieff

[Kimberly Smith]

Hmmmm.

All Harper?