Moley - three days to go!

4:35PM - Jason Kenney, Conservative Party Deputy House Leader and campaign spokesperson is my star of the day. Turns out he was recorded speaking at an Albert Pro-Life conference in April of last year saying some awfully strange things. Here is a sample:

"[A] society which may have the outward appearance of being a democracy but which systematically violates these inalienable rights can become, and I quote John Paul the Second, 'a tyrant state'"

"A democracy which allows, which alienates those inalienable rights, which violates the inviolable dignity of the human person, which denies fundamental rights, like the right to life, is in a certain sense, no longer a democracy"

"Mr. Harper says if a Private Members' Bill were to come forward and were to pass on a free-vote basis that of course he would accept the will of Parliament"

"Paul Martin actually said, this was very little covered, that he, as Prime Minister in this Parliamentary democracy would disregard the will of Parliament as expressed in the adoption of a law through a Private Members' Bill on abortion"

To hear his speech for yourself, go to http://www.liberal.ca/news_e.aspx?id=11446

8:43AM - It was Stephen Harper's turn last night to be grilled in painful ways by the audience on the National. One of the most interesting moments on the show was the following exchange:

PETER MANSBRIDGE: "Have you traveled extensively?"

STEPHEN HARPER: "I actually haven't traveled that extensively, Peter. I've traveled a lot in Canada. Not so much around the world. I've been in North America and Mexico and parts of Europe, but not large -- there are large parts of the world I haven't been. My wife's different. My wife has travelled virtually everywhere in the world. I tell people she made quite a pilgrimage, drove from Johannesburg to Cairo for six months. I get a much more accurate read on the realities of life in other parts of the world from Laureen."

Hmmm. So looks like Laureen will have to join her husband in Cabinet meetings when they discuss 'foreign affairs'. "Stephen, ...no, no, Timbuktu is not a real country. And yes, Turkmenistan is different than Turkey. Yes, I know they sound the same."

Who was that other guy who ran to be the leader of a G8 country without ever having travelled...Yeah, that Dubya guy. I am just saying...