The best way to get to know the reviled creature known as a politician is to watch their show-off antics at a press gallery dinner.
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) gleefully describe the weekend’s press gallery dinner thus:
“It was a night of laughs, some trash talk, and even a mic drop. Federal party leaders had a chance to break bread with the journalists who cover them every day during this year's Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner. (CBC., June 4, 2016)
“None missed an opportunity for digs at themselves, each other and the reporters they gathered to celebrate.
“And neither did Trudeau's wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau.
“In reference to recent coverage that she needs more staff, she called four members of Trudeau's inner circle to the stage at the Museum of History and had them unveil a yoga mat.
“She then balanced herself on her arms, legs up in the air in side crow pose, telling her husband that was how it was done — a dig at a photo of him doing a similar move that's been widely circulated online.
“The pair embraced, the PM grasping his wife's rear — a pose they held long enough to make sure everyone noticed.”
CBC called it “Sophie Gregoire Trudeau takes dig at haters”.
Classy if you’re on the celebrity circuit where yoga, push-ups, boxing and snowboarding count far more than cerebral prowess of any kind.
Trudeau, being Trudeau, could not let the occasion pass without commenting on his “bromance” with Barack Obama:
“Trudeau also commented on his "bromance" with the outgoing U.S. president.
"I'm a little sad that President Obama will be leaving public office soon," he said. "I have to admit, I'll miss his leadership and his good advice. I will not miss the wedgies."
NDP leader, Tom Mulcair, who has nothing to lose because he won’t be running again, tried for shock-jock tactics:
"Unlike every other person here tonight, I give zero f--ks" he said.
“After a speech laden with hits at pollsters, various media outlets and himself he drew to a close.
"I have a lot more here but I was just informed in Edmonton that I have to go," he said.
He called the NDP's poor showing in the October election a "gigantic orange shitstorm" before dropping the mic with "Mulcair out."
But Most Revolting Act of the evening belongs to interim Conservative Party Leader Rona Ambrose who used the occasion to stick a shiv in the back of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper:
“Ambrose, currently leading the Tories, made several jokes at his expense, noting his aversion to the press. (CBC)
“Harper never attended the dinner while serving as prime minister.
“She brought a message from him, who told her to "tell all of you to go to hell."
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"I really believe in my heart that the former prime minister was misunderstood," Ambrose said. "Stephen Harper loved humanity, it was just people that he couldn't stand."
“And she wasn't done throwing shade on her ex-boss, floating some possible new party slogans:
"The Conservative Party of Canada -- It's OK, the bad man's gone away," and "The Conservative Party of Canada -- 30 per cent fewer nuts."
"I do want to say something in Stephan Harper's defence," Ambrose added. "Bob Rae, keep your fingers where I can see them."
“That was a reference to last weekend's Liberal convention in Winnipeg, when the former interim Liberal leader and audience member stuck two fingers in his mouth in a gagging motion, while listening to Trudeau's praise of Harper.”
Ambrose is a typical example of the modern day Canadian political Conservative, who always goes along to git’ along.
Watching the antics of parliamentarians at play makes this prediction an easy one:
It won’t be the back-stabbing Tories or the F-Bomb espousing NDP who will ultimately relieve Canadians from the Trudeau-led Natural Governing Party, but Liberal MPs who can’t get a word in edge wise or a CBC sound bite with a Pretty Boy Prime Minister sucking all publicity oxygen on the world stage.
Meanwhile, Canada Free Press joins many Canadians in waiting eagerly for that welcome day.
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The best way to get to know the reviled creature known as a politician is to watch their show-off antics at a press gallery dinner.
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) gleefully describe the weekend’s press gallery dinner thus:
“It was a night of laughs, some trash talk, and even a mic drop. Federal party leaders had a chance to break bread with the journalists who cover them every day during this year's Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner. (CBC., June 4, 2016)
