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Title: One man, bravely battling the Canadian "politeness" stereotype.
Post by: daveB from Oakland on February 12, 2010, 07:38:11 PM

Audio gold:

http://www.archive.org/download/AbelLeblancOutburst/abelleblanc.mp3

Context:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/12/canadian-politician.html

Title: Re: One man, bravely battling the Canadian "politeness" stereotype.
Post by: NJL on February 12, 2010, 09:32:06 PM

Don't mess with him.  He'll turn the New Brunswick legislative assembly into a car wash.

Title: Re: One man, bravely battling the Canadian "politeness" stereotype.
Post by: buffcoat on February 12, 2010, 10:32:58 PM

I work with a French-Canadian fellow who sounds very much like the first voice on that tape.

What's this dude so mad about?  I don't care about anything that much.

Title: Re: One man, bravely battling the Canadian "politeness" stereotype.
Post by: daveB from Oakland on February 12, 2010, 11:18:40 PM

Quote from: buffcoat on February 12, 2010, 10:32:58 PM

What's this dude so mad about?  I don't care about anything that much.

Here's my interpretation of events: This LeBlanc dude flips the bird, and the rest of the Legislative Assembly seems deeply shocked by the general concept of "Anger".

And then LeBlanc, in his sputtering rage, seems deeply shocked by the general concept of "Hypocrisy".

All of this reminds me of the plot of the recent Ricky Gervais film "The Invention of Lying".

(A movie which I did not actually see. But I read several reviews of it).