Cette guerre contre le cynisme ne sera pas de tout repos

«Harper campaigned on a promise of fixed election dates. He passed a law setting a fixed election date — Oct. 29, 2009. That's a nice date, isn't it? Specific. Concrete. Fixed. In Victoria during the last campaign, he said fixed election dates "prevent governments from calling snap elections for short-term political advantage." He said they "stop leaders from trying to manipulate the calendar."

When the bill was passed, the Government House leader, Peter Van Loan, celebrated: "Never again will the government of the day be able to play around with the date of an election for its own crass political motives."

Now here's the Prime Minister, and what's he doing? Manipulating the calendar! Why's he doing it? For short-term political advantage!

Whose motives was the government pursuing? Its own! And what kind of motives are they? Crass!

But it's not as though there's a law against that.

What's that?

There is? Well. Truth be told — and it might as well be, if only for novelty's sake — the Prime Minister is a mite sheepish about all this, although not sheepish enough to . . . you know . . . keep his word.»

Paul Wells, Maclean's

Comments

[Rédigé par : Sara-E]

Well, le positif dans tout ça, c'est qu'on sera peut-être content de pouvoir le sortir au plus criss? Sinon, ce serait gentil que tu changes la casse, Nicolas, car cet italique est fichtrement dur à lire... :)