With the present leader on the barbeque circuit it should be a lame duck.....
Excrement-hiding bird championed as Liberal symbol
Updated Thu. Aug. 30 2007 1:18 PM ET
Canadian Press
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- The beaver is one of Canada's national symbols and now a senior Liberal wants to make the puffin the symbol of the country's self-proclaimed natural governing party.
Liberal deputy leader Michael Ignatieff says the industrious little seabird -- with its black and white plumage, distinctive striped beak and orange feet -- is a "noble'' creature that exemplifies Liberal values.
"It's a noble bird because it has good family values.(People might question whether abortion, same sex marriages, etc. are examples of good family values.) They stay together for 30 years,'' (Possibly because no one else will have them.)Ignatieff said Thursday outside a Liberal caucus retreat in the Newfoundland capital.
"They lay one egg (each year). (One year it the Sponsorship Scandal. Another year it the HRDC scandal, Another year it the Chretien golf course. I am sure others can give us other examples for the other 14 years.) They put their excrement in one place. They hide their excrement. (Yea in Ottawa or Quebec and they try to hide it but the Auditor General usually finds it) ... They flap their wings very hard and they work like hell. (But they never seem to able to get off the ground and fly.)
"This seems to me a symbol for what our party should be.''
Ignatieff was charmed by the birds during what was supposed to be a whale-watching tour for Liberal caucus members Tuesday. The MPs and senators saw no whales but did get a close up view of a colony of puffins nesting on a rocky offshore island.
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