Dion Meltdown!

After 3 takes the want to be PM of our country still can't understand this simple question: If you were Prime Minister...

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News & Politics

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• Canadian
• election
• Liberal
• Dion
• meltdown
• Mike
• Duffy
• CTV

[cookerg]

Politicians get asked lousy questions all the time, and it's an opportunity to say what you want to say directly to the audience, instead of being trapped into saying what the interviewer may or may not want you to say. Dion should have been able to do that.

See Elizabeth May's smackdown of Mike Duffy for a good example of that. She refused to play his little game and answer questions as he framed them. Instead she said what she wanted to say.

[cookerg]

I like Dion and am sorry he didn't do better. It was very sleazy, and clearly partisan of ATV to release this tape.

At the same time, Dion should also blame himself. A more skilled and confident politician would have ignored or even exploited the vagueness of the question, and simply given the answer he wanted to give.

[student431]

30 day plan.... great job man hope thats still not ur coalition plan cause if that happens omg wow. man ur soo fucking dumb

[124otterstreet]

Mr. Dion came across as a gentleman struggling with the english language. Mr. Regan needs to know that it is impossible for Mr. Dion to give a "barn burner speech in english." I do not question Mr. Dion's abilities, nor his competencies in other areas. Mr. Regan could have been honest and said, "we are at the end of the campaign Mr. Dion is tired, did not understand the question, and has a track record to show that this was an isolated incident. The truth Mr. Regan, just the truth.

[124otterstreet]

This is a no brainer. Mr. Dion is not fluently bilingual. That is it.  No excuses needed just the truth. Mr. Dion is not fluently bilingual.

[purplecorn2]

Stephane Dion misunderstood the verb tense (he understood the conditional past instead of the conditional future). Not impressive, but I heard Stephen Harper and Jack Layton make much more elementary French mistakes in the French leaders' debate (wrong genders, wrong tenses, anglicisms, etc.)

I am more concerned about the substance of his answer: he will ask a bunch of people if they have any ideas. Rather, he should push for a real Canadian securities regulator instead of 13 useless ones.

[steveofunk]

If you cant understand the people Mr. Dion, you shouldnt be leading them. God forbid we have him as our PM. What happens when he doesnt understand a question on the international stage? All the liberal spinsters should leave Duff alone...Thank God for journalists like him that have the integrity to tell it like it IS and not back down from political disinformation and strong-arming. Good job Duff and CTV. ~ A Concerned Canadian.

[steveofunk]

If you cant understand the people Mr. Dion, you shouldnt be representing them. God forbid we have him as our PM. What happens when he doesnt understand a questions on the international stage?

[steveofunk]

Wow...I hope this opens peoples eyes. Agreed, regardless of how stunned & confused Dion was with the tense of the question, certainly he could manage some intelligent response. Liberals have been critical of Harpers handling of the recent bank & stock crisis and the reporter simply wanted to know what he would have done differently. Not 2.5 yrs ago... Dion really hasnt a clue...thats why he couldnt answer. Dion doesnt even have a plan 4 the economy until 30 days AFTER hes...Prime Minister LOL!

[dustyskates]

Journalist with an agenda. He wants to make a splash at the expense of another. Very poor question. He says 'if you were PM TODAY what would you HAVE DONE differently from Harper' then when Dion asks if it was for the past 2.5 yrs he says no 'if you were pm today and the past 2 yrs' Then changes it again to say something with a totally different meaning when he sees Dion is struggling. I will not be voting Liberal, but this reporter is a joke and didn't even show respect...not very Canadian.