Okay, so perhaps he’s a little biased in his observations of the Liberal campaign. But you gotta admire the mathematical take that New Democrat MP Charlie Angus has on last weekend:

Mr. Speaker, we are learning today from the media that the ballots are being counted again from super weekend in Quebec. Let us see how super it was.

In the last convention the Liberal Party claimed 500,000 members. Now the party is claiming 200,000 members. The fascinating thing is when we look at the details in that story that only 10% of Liberals in Quebec even bothered to come out and support. When the Liberals are talking about a mandate of 30% for one frontrunner, 20% for another and 17% for the third, are we not talking about 3% of Quebec Liberals and 2% and 1.7%?

I ask myself why? It is because that party remains habituated to ethical lowballing. One leadership candidate is parachuting jobs into the public sector. There are two–count them, two–leadership candidates who are signing up the dead. And don’t get me started on kiddygate.

What I would like to say is that the nation is watching and what are they seeing? They are seeing the ethical floaters in the Liberal toilet that just will not go down no matter how much they claim to flush.

Incidentally, that last sentence is probably the closest thing you’ll ever get to “toilet humor” in the House of Commons. I’m not entirely certain of its propriety, so perhaps I could hear from others to answer whether that last sentence should qualify Charlie for a Ken Epp Award.

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