This was hilarious:
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Michael Ignatieff stood in a field of weeds on Thursday to illustrate accusations the Harper government is lying to Canadians about how many infrastructure projects are under way and how much money is flowing from its stimulus program.
The field is to be a park and should be by now, the Liberal Leader said in Burlington, Ont., but the Tories are slow in turning their words into action under the $4-billion infrastructure spending fund.
More than that, he said , the majority of projects announced are going to Conservative-held ridings. And his infrastructure critic, Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy, has prepared a report that appears to back this up.
One problem, however: Half an hour later, Infrastructure Minister John Baird stood at a construction project just five minutes away from the Ignatieff weed field, countering the Liberal Leader's claims.
That field, the Ottawa-area Tory MP said, should be empty because the project slated there was never meant to get started until 2010.
Calling the Liberal report “embarrassing,” he said that 75 per cent of all the projects slated to begin in 2009 are now under way.
Not one to mince words, he characterized the Ignatieff-Kennedy press conference as “downright opportunistic and I believe it's shameful.”
It was that kind of pre-election morning: Liberal vs. Tory, claim-counter claim.
linkIggy:
"Damn! Always one step ahead!"I thought this guy was smart? Making the CPC (or ndp or liberals for that matter) look bad really shouldn't be this hard. It's not something I would expect someone intelligent to have such a hard time doing.