PolitiCanucks

Our representatives in DC may be the best politicians that money can buy, but in this era when all public statements are first privately run through the PR people they have lost some of their rhetorical luster over the years.

Thankfully, there's Canada.

Yes, our neighbors to the north (or east, for my Alaskan readers) still have a way with their words. For example, much to his chagrin, former Immigration Minister Joe Volpe, a contender for leadership of the Liberal Party, had to return over C$16,000 (about $15K US) when it was discovered that the contributions came from adolescent children related to the chairman of a drug company.

Had this been Washington, the strongest zinger from the other side may have been some comment about a "culture of corruption." Not Ottawa. Not New Democrat legislator Pat Martin.

"The Liberal Party is like an egg-sucking dog ..." he said, "they dig under the fence to get at that money and they just can't be cured. With an egg-sucking dog, all you can do is put them down."