LIBERALS REFER TO HILLIER AS HARPER PROP
Topic: February 16, 2007
"So Defence Chief of Staff Hillier, do you deny being a prop for the conservative government?"
"Of course I do! Just because during the decade of darkness where we saw budget cuts as threats to our Canadian way of life happened to have occurred during a different reign of backboneless leadership, does not mean I'm a prop to the great and glorious Stephen Joseph Harper."
"So you're blaming the budget cuts by the Liberals during the nineties as the reason our troops are dying in Afghanistan?"
"I didn't say that. I just said that we were denied money for equipment and training. How can you train and be ready for a war if you take the funding away? Just because we weren't at war with anybody at the time didn't mean we shouldn't be."
"Did you stop to think that it may have been because at the time there was a deficit of over 40 billion dollars created by the previous Conservative government and that the Liberals were trying to clean up?"
"No comment."
"Will you comment then on perhaps that there was also a public outcry given the behaviour of some of your soldiers in Somalia the time?"
"No. Except we reject any parallels drawn to that and abuse allegations in Afghanistan."
"Are you going to run in the next election?"
"I couldn't say, but I will say, anybody who questions Mr. Harper about anything, must be a Liberal, a communist or worse... an NDP!"