RON MACLEAN
So House of Commons Night in Canada is unexpectedly in Guelph after the NHL trade deadline, in which nothing much happened except the Canucks' trading Cody Hodgson to Buffalo.
DON CHERRY
Yeah well I think it's a good move. The Canucks already had too much skill. What they need is brutality, particularly if they're going up against Boston again.
RON MACLEAN
Doesn't that imply the Stanley Cup is a war of attrition and not a contest of skill?
DON CHERRY
I don't see the difference.
RON MACLEAN
Which gets us back to the current robocalls crisis, which as the Prime Minster says, might be a matter of "sore losers."
DON CHERRY
Well I agree that losers are losers. On the other hand, faking - taking dives - is not in my opinion part of the game of parliamentary democracy.
RON MACLEAN
So now we have evidence of calls interfering with the electoral process - an offence under the Elections Act - phoning voters to tell them - fraudently - that their polling stations had changed.
DON CHERRY
You make it sound like there's something wrong with that.
RON MACLEAN
It's illegal!
DON CHERRY
Well...OK.
RON MACLEAN
And now, nobody has done anything wrong.
DON CHERRY
All I'm saying is there have always been dirty tricks in Canadian parliamentary democracy.
RON MACLEAN
FRAUD??!!
DON CHERRY
I think you're hitting a small nail with an awfully big hammer.
RON MACLEAN
How is fraud a "small nail?"
DON CHERRY
Look, the Criminal Code of Canada is really a series of assumptions, open to debate.
RON MACLEAN
What do you think of the Nuremberg Principles?
DON CHERRY
I heard it's a good movie.
RON MACLEAN
So that's us from House of Commons Night in Canada, live from Pierre's Poutine in Guelph.
DON CHERRY
I like this town.
RON MACLEAN
Are those gravy stains on your tie?
DON CHERRY
Absolutely!
