VIDEO: Olivia Chow mock-debates Mark Critch on 22 Minutes
Between her recent “interview” (read: long-form ad) with campaign booster Warren Kinsella on Sun News and last night’s mock parry-and-thrust with comic Mark Critch on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, mayoral hopeful Olivia Chow has proven herself more than capable at handling softball questions in phony debates.
Calling Chow a “frontrunner” in the mayoral election, Critch “grilled” her with one simple, and maybe at one time unnecessary, question: “Are you on crack?” Chow ‘fessed to smoking pot as an arts and philosophy student, and attempted to make a case for aboveground transit as Critch yelled over her.
Chow handled the interview pretty gamely, making jokes about her own discomfort and playing up her image as a member of the terrifying Downtown Toronto Elite. (“What rest of Canada?” she asked Critch when pressed about the nation’s perceptions of Toronto. “Is there such a thing?”) Also: she appeared sleeveless, which as WORN Fashion Journal pointed out a while back, is pretty much her thing.
The segment is embedded above.
Can’t tell who was harder on Ms Chow. Warren Kinsella or Mark Critch, they are both satirical journalists right?
Can’t tell who was harder on Ms Chow. Warren Kinsella or Mark Critch…