Jobs 101: Did Iggy stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?

I watched the interview where Ignatieff so gleefully proclaimed that if elected Prime Minister, he would live in a hotel for his first term. In that same interview, he accused the government of focusing on the deficit over jobs, which he spoke with such passionate zeal that you'd have thought that he just figured out how to split the atom!

First his statement is obviously false, that the government is putting deficit reduction over job creation; what do you think that whole 30 billion dollar Economic Action plan was supposed to do? The entire purpose of the stimulus was to create jobs, which it did. Infrastructure projects which required the hiring of new workers, the need for steel and resources then increases demand in those sectors, on a large scale from coast to coast to coast.

Then more people have jobs, the more people there are in the economy spending money, which once inventories have cleared leads to new job creation and innovation. It is a process, and you just cannot arbitrarily stick a fork in it at any given moment and pronounce it done, especially when most of the leaders at Copenhagen have reason to envy how Canada has weathered the global downturn. We are doing far better in recovery than most industrialized countries, and maybe that is why we have a target on our backs. To suggest that this government is putting the deficit over jobs is absurd! And all that money, which Iggy demanded we spend last January, was the biggest contributor to our current deficit!

I can't even begin to tell you how many times I have listened to this man auditioning to lead my country make ridiculous comments that remind of the quote from Stealer’s Wheel, "I've been trying to make some sense of it all, but I can see it makes no sense at all." Which puppet master told him to say that, Donollo or Kinsella, or did he happen upon this pearl of wisdom while he was staying at a Holiday Inn Express?

I would love to see This Hour Has 22 Minutes do a series of Ignatieff Holiday Inn sketches. This whole hotel gaffe, likely a planted question, only reinforces the notion that Iggy is just visiting. I wonder if that question was spontaneous, pre-approved, or requested. Either way, it was a dumb idea and Iggy should have said that it is the last thing on his mind.