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diaryland: sirilyan.diaryland.com: entry for 2004-02-15 (02:19)
In which our plucky young hero writes the civics text.

Just for the record, I am shocked and appalled that Alexa McDonough and Stephen Harper have criticized the government for having spent $1 million to bring Triumph the Ed The Sock Maybe-Ripoff to Toronto. These traitorous turncoat politicians don't understand the job of the opposition in a parliamentary system. Here, in bullet points so simple even a New Democrat (audible sneering noise) can understand them, are these duties:

• Rubber-stamping every decision the government makes.
• Agreeing every government expenditure was money well spent.
• Eschewing all opportunities to criticize.

The duties of the opposition most certainly do not include:

• Raising the chance of the allegation of the admittedly-slim non-impossibility that perhaps just possibly something the government did might have been a smidgen of a tenth of a half-speck of a mistake, especially in the traditionally rock-solid field of English-French relations in Canada, which any fool knows have always been perfect but especially perfect in the years 1980 and 1995.

(All of the above, of course, applies ten times as much when it involves the government paying a million dollars so that a hand puppet can tell people, in not quite so many words, "I'm such an ignorant little dipshit I actually think Quebec and France are the same country.")

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