Or you could insert any other Tea-baggin’ connie name and that would do just fine.
“I think you Albertans know what I’m talking about. Even today, you have to regularly put up with lectures from the little group in central Canada, mostly made up of people who cannot resist a subsidy when they see one.”
Funny man, he is, I mean, rip roaringly hysterical, that Junior Peladeau. Like Alberta big oil never received any government subsidies and I guess he never remembered that Alberta once upon a time did receive equalization payments…never mind, it’s a common omission, I’m sure many Cons in and out of Alberta prefer to forget.
Like absolute free speech, public subsidies are for me and mine and the rest of you mere mortals, fuck off! You pay your taxes to us and not the other way around! What nerve you have even thinking you’re entitled to anything that would take away from me and mine!
Oh, and on the official hiring of Ezzy Levant, I guess Pierre-Karl would need government subsidies to have a bigger legal team than the National Enquirer.
H/T Impolitical
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Subsidy: a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like.
So… like the time he begged the federal and provincial governments for money so he could build an arena for the failed hocky franchise he wanted to give himself for Christmas?
And it’s not as if the publishing industry has ever taken any government money.