At least someone is having fun during the Canadian election. It’s the Prime Minister’s head speech writer, Scott Feschuk, and he’s keeping a blog.
It’s great silly fun, mainly light-hearted banter, but with some interesting stories along the way, like why you should never miss the motorpool (second entry). Or inner sanctum stuff, like the internal mood in the plane after the Tories made hay of the Scott Reid remark (very bottom entry). Or the time he cleaned out Paul Martin at poker.
More open than you’d expect, especially compared to the rest of the pack. Sadly, the NDP is probably too earnest to keep one of these. The Tories do have a blog of sorts, but predicitably it’s just an anonymous, vitriolic, partisan mouthpiece.
No comment yet
Jeff K says:
January 2, 2006 at 12:10 pm (UTC 0)
I had the best antidote to the election yet. I was in Tokyo for a week and didn’t touch the internet or read Canadian news for a week. Btw, the Aqua Museum in Yokohama was interesting — it’s your blog so, if you’d like more info do write me @ myob10 … hotmail.com (or my real e-mail).
Laura says:
January 6, 2006 at 8:19 pm (UTC 0)
Agreed! We were all in Florida for a week (half of it at Disney; posts to come) and we had all but forgotten there even was an election here until we came back and found a sign on our front lawn. (We ordered one soon after the election was called, but I guess it was covered under the party’s 2006 election budget rather than the 2005 one!)