Traduction de «un cheval une alouette » (Français → Anglais) :

Mr. Speaker, a budget bill is not a catch-all that the government can stuff with whatever it wants, yet the Conservatives' Trojan Horse makes cuts everywhere: employment insurance, fisheries, pensions, science, the environment, immigration, and the list goes on.

However, to quote a popular Hungarian saying, unless it is implemented, it will be worth as much as horseshoes on a dead horse.

The old structures that we have had up to now remind me somewhat of Don Quixote’s beautiful horse, Rosinante, which thought it was a racehorse.

This debate reminds me of a fairground carousel, on which sometimes a Turkish, sometimes a Croatian and sometimes a Macedonian horse rides by.

Agriculture Mr. Grant McNally (Dewdney—Alouette, Canadian Alliance): Mr. Speaker, I have the pleasure to present two petitions on behalf of my constituents, the first one being signed by 66 individuals who are against the slaughter of horses and the sale of horse meat for human consumption.

However, with this Liberal government a whole range of far more advanced strategies is often employed, such as: appointing a committee to study the dead horse; arranging a visit to other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses; lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included; reclassifying the dead horse as living impaired, which is politically correct; harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed; providing additional funding aimed at increasing the dead horse's performance; doing a productivity study to see if a lighter rider would improve the dead horse's performance; declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to t ...[+++]he bottom line of the economy; lowering the expected performance requirements for all horses so that dead horses are included; and finally and most important, promoting the dead horse to a Liberal cabinet position.