Angry in the Great White North

Go the the Liberal Party website.  Along the top navigation, select Team, then Members of Parliament.  A page with a map of Canada is presented:

Select Quebec.  You get a list of Liberal MPs in Quebec:

Click on Stephane Dion's name, and go to the MP profile for former Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion:

From there, follow the link to his website, stephanedion.ca.  Stephane Dion's website, still directly linked from the Liberal Party website, is registered by the Federal Liberal Association of Saint-Laurent/Cartierville.  On the left, at the top of the navigation area, is the link to the website for his now discredited Green Shift tax grab, rendered in French ("Le Tournant Vert"):

If you are at work, perhaps you should stop here.  But if you are confident that no one is looking over your shoulder, click on the link to Le Tournant Vert.

The page you reach is entitled "Cuopon [sic] Code for Fleshlight device, Order fleshlight masturbating sleeves".

Oh dear.

The first sentence of the page reads "The end cap is a little tricky, and for me, I had to adjust and re adjust to the proper ammount [sic] of suction, pressure."

You see, it looks like a regular flashlight but instead of batteries...

OK, you get the idea.

Hey, you Liberals managing the websites and domains and links.  Have a bit of respect for Stephane Dion, and for your party in general, and keep an eye on your old domain names.  Consider registering the name for ten years.  For crying out loud, who was giving you advice on how to manage your digital political presence?

I was in the meeting that dealt with this, as well as the raft of domain names which the party snapped up surrounding this name. All of them were legally registered, of course.

Oh yeah.  Garth Turner.  Never mind.

I wonder what the Liberal reaction to this should be.  When two digits of a phone number to a government hotline for lobster fisherman were inadvertently transposed, listing a phone number for a phone sex service, the Liberals were not impressed:

A toll-free hotline that was supposed to help ailing lobster fishermen access government assistance turned out to be a sex line - yet another example of Conservative government incompetence, Liberal Fisheries Critic Gerry Byrne said today.

"I don't think this is the kind 'stimulus' lobster fishermen were looking for from their government," said Mr. Byrne. "I wish it was a laughing matter, but when the fishing industry has been devastated by Conservative neglect, this is hardly the help our fishermen need.

Is this the same thing?  Maybe not.

The lobster hotline typo was clearly a mistake.

If a typo is incompetence, what do you call losing track of your registered domain names and having them scooped up by purveyors of sex toys?  And it's not just any domain, but the domain that once explained the policy that was the heart and soul of your former leader's short spell as leader.

And yet, I'm not sure I would call this incompetence on the part of the Liberals.  Directing people who think paying a tax on everything will help the environment to a site about masturbation sort of makes sense.   I've always thought that ill-considered and expensive environmental policy was the form of self-indulgence favoured by people looking to make themselves feel good for a few minutes without actually accomplishing anything.

*snort*