Angry in the Great White North

Here is the video:

Watch the Baird portion. It gets repeated twice. Jason Cherniak's voice-over even says "You can say that again."

Indeed.

Here is the Laird quote from Hansard:

Hon. John Baird (Minister of the Environment, CPC):

Mr. Speaker, in recent years, Canadians became very used to Mr. Dithers, the leader of the Liberal Party. Now we see Liberal members showing up at committee and what we have is Mr. Delay. They want to study it for months. Canadians have had enough of that.

I wanted to look for some wisdom on Kyoto to find out what Kyoto was all about and here is what I found:

I think our party has got into a mess on the environment. As a practical matter of politics, nobody knows what (Kyoto) is or what it commits us to.

Does the House know who said that? The deputy leader of the Liberal Party said that.

The deputy leader would be Michael Ignatieff. Not only does he criticize his own party, Ignatieff criticizes the Kyoto Accord, and the ill-defined commitment to the accord made by the Liberal Party.

By editing the clip, Cherniak scrubs all meaning from Baird's words. He then layers on new meaning by placing the quote in his video. In other words, he delivers a message that is not true. He tells us Baird is criticizing the Conservatives even though Baird is clearly not doing anything of the sort. We call that lying.

Cherniak calls it "artistic license" in the comments.

If I were John Baird, I'd be considering some sort of action.

Cherniak is a lawyer. I really thought he would have more respect for the truth, and for the consequences of lying.