Pot, Palin and prorogation: Stephen Harper gets grilled on YouTube

[Spazito]

After being called a “pansy” by a cartoon Sarah Palin, Stephen Harper's experiment with YouTube might yet leave him pining for the parliamentary press gallery.

By late afternoon Friday, the response to the Prime Minister's pitch this week to hear from Canadians via the popular video website yielded 1,200 questions. They hit on a wide variety of topics, including many Mr. Harper likely won't be eager to address like legalizing marijuana and 9/11 conspiracy theories.

It often wasn't so much what they asked – it was how. Many did Marshall McLuhan proud, using the medium of do-it-yourself video to ask tough questions, while lampooning Mr. Harper with stinging messages. His controversial prorogation of Parliament was a prime target.

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Mr. Harper has been criticized for avoiding the national media – and its tough questions – by taking his message directly to Canadians through advertising or local media.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pot-palin-and-prorogation-stephen-harper-gets-grilled-on-youtube/article1499227/

The article doesn't point out a key aspect of this ploy by harper and that is only the 'top-voted' questions will be asked. Instead it leaves the impression all the questions are on the table. I wish, lol.

[HeresyLives]

1. He'll give a standard boiler-plate answer

to only the questions he likes, and that will be the end of the experiment.

[Spazito]

2. Yep, my guess is these are the "questions" he will answer...

- foreign investment
- tax breaks for corporations
- climate change
- reducing the deficit

His answers will be boiler-plate for sure and merely regurgitations of what has already been said about the budget.

Given this statement on the YouTube site:

"Submit your questions for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his response to the Speech from the Throne and the recent budget."

any questions deemed not relevant to the "Speech from the Throne and the recent budget" will be ignored.

I think the harper cabal is going to regret doing this as there will be a backlash by the same participants they want to "woo".