RON MACLEAN
So we're back on House of Commons Night in Canada with a torrid wrap-up to the current session, Justin Trudeau having called the Minister for the Environment, Peter Kent, "a piece of shit." That's pretty inflammatory language, Grapes, and we've talked before about respect in the game of Parliamentary Democracy, so what's your take on Trudeau and his apology.
DON CHERRY
He's got nothing to apologize for.
RON MACLEAN
But it's not parliamentary language, as Trudeau himself said, and apologized for without reservation.
DON CHERRY
Yeah, OK. So he wasn't Churchill, who could've got the point across in parliamentary language just as cutting, but not everybody can be Winston Churchill. The fact is that Kent's comment was the definition of - how you say in Yiddish - chutzpah. The government refused to let opposition members be part of the Canadian delegation to Durban, then Kent complains that they were't there.
RON MACLEAN
How is that chutzpah?
DON CHERRY
I read the definition of chutzpah is somebody who kills their parents and then complains about being an orphan.
RON MACLEAN
That's a pretty inflammatory statement all by itself.
DON CHERRY
Hey, I didn't make it up. It's like I said about Pat Martin: if I have to choose between bad language with honourable intentions, and smarmy PR language with evil intentions, I'm gonna take bad language every time.
RON MACLEAN
Merry Christmas.
DON CHERRY
Now you're the one being inflammatory.
RON MACLEAN
Moi?
DON CHERRY
Vouze.
