Myron Thompson Questioned About Quebec As Nation
November 27, 2006 · By George Freeman
This exchange between Myron Thompson and a CTV reporter is pretty funny. CTV was fishing for a disgruntled Albertan to embarrass Harper. They didn’t get it, but not for lack of honesty.
Question: Can you tell me in terms of all this debate going on about the Quebec nation, what do your constituents say?
Myron Thompson: You know, I haven’t heard a thing yet.
Question: What does it mean to you then, this whole notion of …
Thompson: I don’t have any comment because I haven’t figured that out just yet.
Question: You mean?
Thompson: I haven’t figured out exactly what it means.
Question: What do you think it means?
Thompson: I don’t have any comment because I don’t know yet. I don’t even know what to think.
Question: How are you going to vote?
Thompson: I don’t know that.
Question: Are you struggling with the idea?
Thompson: I don’t struggle with anything. When you get to be my age, it is a struggle to get down here to work, you know, so I don’t struggle with these issues, so…
Question: What about your constituents, what do they think?
Thompson: I haven’t heard a thing yet, nothing yet. I’m waiting for the emails and the phone calls and so far, zero.
Question: But you don’t have much time to think about this!
Thompson: Honey, I don’t have much time to live probably. I’m getting pretty old you know.
Well I thoroughly enjoyed that posted exchange…rofl…
Good on you Mr. Thompson.
Sophisticated reporters look at Thompson and see an easy touch. The truth is that he’s been around Ottawa for almost 14 years; he knows how to handle these media types.
Thompson called David Akin “honey”?
I probably should have been more clear in the original post. This exchange is between several reporters and Myron. I was not one of the reporters in this particular scrum but watched the videotape after the fact. And sophisticated reporters do not see an easy touch in Mr. Thompson — what they see is a sophisticated politician who knows who to catch a feeling or a moment using plain language that anyone can understand. That’s why he’s a press gallery favourite. He speaks his mind in plain simple language.