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Stéphane Dion finds God
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Aug 25, 2008 01:56pm |
| Category | Perspective |
| News Date | Aug 25, 2008 01:00pm |
| Description | Last week, the leader of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition — Liberal chief Stéphane Dion — sat down with me for a one-hour interview on my TV program, The Michael Coren Show. Within the first 10 minutes of the discussion he made several mentions of God. These weren’t passing phrases or clumsy slang but obvious, absolute references to the entity so fashionably unfashionable in left-wing circles these days. You could have knocked me down with a Gospel tract!
He was, for example, anxious to “reconcile people with God’s environment” and was committed to the planet “given to us by God.” Which is somewhat surprising. The deity is not a popular debating point for Liberal leaders. Actually, the Supreme Being is mentioned by ambitious Liberal politicians about as often as Brian Mulroney’s good points. So I was rude enough to ask Mr. Dion if he was doing this — sounding religious — because he had been told that the station on which my show appears each night, CTS, was faith-based. Frankly, I expected him to deny, obfuscate or simply lie. It says a great deal about the man’s integrity as well as his innocence that he replied on air with a simple, “This is true.” A pause, then, “I have been told that this is important to the people who watch this show.”
Which is why he had mentioned God more often in the space of five minutes than most Liberals do in five parliamentary sessions. In fact, his people had it wrong. Although the network itself is broadly faith-based, much of its schedule has no religious content at all, and my program is a current affairs show with an audience of more than 200,000 people, the majority of whom do not identify with any particular faith. We feature social activists, politicians and authors rather than pastors, priests and bishops. But the point is that Stéphane Dion was badly advised and — this is important — willing to tell the truth about that advice on national TV. |
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