Parlez-Vousing for Real
You know what I think? I think Stephane Dion should speak in French for the duration of the campaign. It's his first language, he's more comfortable in it, and I don't know why he should feel, in an officially bilingual country, that he has to campaign in English in order to be Prime Minister. He's by far the best candidate for the job, but he can't showcase himself to advantage against Stephen Harper because his English isn't strong enough.
Yes, I'm being a smart-ass. But I also mean it. It would be the right thing to do both for him and for us. Otherwise, who are we trying to kid? He's losing (in the campaigning sweepstakes) because he's out front and center trying to sell a detailed environmental plan of action to Canadians in a language in which he really isn't comfortable.
Go ahead. Say it in French. English Canadians don't understand anything but "TAX CUTS!!" in English, anyway. Look, Stephen Harper inherited a government with a $13.2 billion surplus and now, a couple of mismanaged minority government years later, we have a deficit. And English Canada is about to hand him a majority government.
Gawd knows - we deserve it if he gets it.
