Ottawa

As Confucius once said

This week should not pass without some note of the Prime Minister’s altogether profound answer to a question from the Liberal leader on Wednesday. Mr. Ignatieff presented what he saw as a series of recent foreign policy failures on the part of Mr. Harper’s government and then wondered how Mr. Harper could “explain this pattern of obstruction, indifference and missed opportunities.” The Prime Minister stood and here, in this place of crude and disputed words, mused both profoundly and indisputably as follows.

Mr. Speaker, of course the opposite is totally at variance with that.

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