Since there seems to be such a media frenzy, sustained by people of all the parties represented in the House of Commons, about Elizabeth May’s comments comparing Stephen Harper’s lack of action on climate change to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazi’s in the late 30′s, I thought I’d post a few choice quotes of my own.
“Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. We have been hearing those kinds of comments from the Prime Minister for 16 years since he began promising to clean up the air for Canadians and instead we have worse pollution than ever. He makes Neville Chamberlain look like a stalwart in standing up to a crisis. Smog is sending people to emergency wards at unprecedented levels. The prairies are drying up. We have forest fires like we have never had before. All we get are promises of plans to be brought forward some day. Will he bring forward a plan, yes or no?”
– Jack Layton, April 4, 2005
“I listened to the Minister of Finance when he was reading his budget speech. He said that the long days of bickering between the federal and provincial governments were over. I have not heard a quote like that since I read about Neville Chamberlain talking about peace in our times right before the second world war.”
– Stephane Dion, March 22, 2007
“I do not expect members of the NDP to understand this. I fully expect that the Neville Chamberlains of the 21st century in the NDP do not want to be part of an effort that is aimed at elevating the lives of the people of Afghanistan. It is unfortunate that they would take this off track and try to debase the real activity, the important quality of life changes that are taking place because of our forces being in Afghanistan.”
– Peter MacKay, May 17, 2006
Hmmm. Perhaps some apologies and retractions are in order?
Yeah. I rather thought not.
Credits for these quotes to MacLeans.
