Musings —06.02.2016 01:12 PM
—Goodbye Canada AM
I loved going on Canada AM, back when JC was PM. I’d face off against David Miller (for the NDP), or Line Maheu (for the Alliance/Reform/whatever they were called that week), or Dan Tisch or whoever (for the PCs).
Canada AM was where I did this good-natured little jab, too. Became a Trivial Pursuit question, that one.
Anyway, goodbye Canada AM. And here’s a clip from way back when that a reader found (don’t know how). O that we were all young again, etc.
I remember your appearance like it was yesterday……”In the past day or so, we have learned that Stockwell Day apparently believes that the world is 6,000 years old, Adam and Eve were real people and – my personal favorite – humans walked the earth with dinosaurs. I just want to remind Mr. Day that The Flintstones was not a documentary. And this is the only dinosaur that recently co-existed with humans. [Holds up stuffed Barney dinosaur]”
– Liberal activist Warren Kinsella on CTV’s Canada AM
Of course the effect was withering…..I was a PC’er at the time, and this, along with Mr. Day’s ill fated jetski/wetsuit appearance at his first news conference, gave me hope our struggling party would live to fight another day……barely, but it did…..