I forget whom to tribute it to,but I read someone's remarks about it being too bad if there is an election called,cause it's SO much fun watching the Liberal party scurry around....So whoever said it first ,I salute you .(and almost agree with you!)
Posted at 2005-04-27 21:49:40 [PermaLink]Damian: Not sure what these guys will try next? Just ask for something. I'm sure if you get angry enough, they'll be happy to oblige. Tax cuts AND spending increases AND debt reduction AND balanced budgets AND money for NL AND money for ON AND money for SK AND money for....
Posted at 2005-04-27 22:11:11 [PermaLink]How about enough money so we can all go on the Western Standard cruise?
Posted at 2005-04-27 22:21:16 [PermaLink]Prime Minister Paul Martin says corporate tax reductions are still possible, despite his budget deal with the NDP, but only if the Conservatives throw their support behind the move.
Amazing. You'd think someone in trouble because of a payoff scandal would have better sense than to offer payoffs to more people...
I see that Bono is filming a video in Vancouver. He should write a new hit song - PROMISES MADE, PROMISES BROKEN. It would go platinum within a couple of days just from Canadian sales.
Posted at 2005-04-28 01:34:42 [PermaLink]Kind of reminds me of California Governor Grey Davis' last minute desperate attempts of staving off a recall vote. There is no mistaking the unmistakable odor of flop sweat coming from a politican going down in flames.
Posted at 2005-04-28 01:45:20 [PermaLink]The long nights in the North have to have affected the thought processes of the people up there.
Posted at 2005-04-28 02:25:04 [PermaLink]Shall we send Arnold up north, to save Canada now?
Posted at 2005-04-28 02:41:57 [PermaLink]Arnold isn't Constitutionally barred from being PM of Canada, is he? Once he's done in CA he can establish residency up there and take over.
Posted at 2005-04-28 02:50:14 [PermaLink]One nice thing about it is that they seem to have gutted the Canadian Armed Forces to the point where Martin can't use the Army to hold on to power.
Posted at 2005-04-28 04:45:27 [PermaLink]Martin is beyond desperate. The Liberals have a simple reason for entering a deal with the NDP and it has nothing to do with good government. The Liberals are afraid to face the people, and well they should be. The "deal"is all the more evidence that the opposition should move to bring the government down. There is no sound policy here, just the money of taxpayers being spent to keep the Liberals in power.
It's really all Martin can do for himself right now. In his best-case scenario, he scrapes up enough votes to defeat a non-confidence vote and he gets 10 months to campaign for the next election. Since testimony will end in June, he hopes the Canadian public will start to forget about their disgust with the, now daily, revelations from Gomery.
In the worst-case scenario he can blame an immediate election on the Conservative vote against a budget they had promised to support. Add to this the benefit of being able to point out to the entitlement-addicted public all the nice new social spending they won't be getting because of the mean Conservatives.
He has past experience to believe that getting into bed with the NDP won't hurt him very much. He won the last election by promising lots of new social spending, but more importantly, by demonizing the Conservatives. He will follow the same path this time. Instead of running on being honest or increasing the prosperity of our country and all Canadadians (as the Conservatives would do, in my opinion) he will simply tell Canadadians that the CPC are more evil, and they hate gays and children and they have a hidden agenda to make Healthcare only available to the rich. People were stupid enough to buy it last time.
What Canada needs to do is put Don Cherry in charge! He'd be a PM who could get things changed for the better. Except he doesn't need the aggravation. But wait--he could produce "Great Parliament Fights" to complement the great Hockey Fight videos!
Posted at 2005-04-28 11:23:34 [PermaLink]Delaying the vote now would leave the Liberals in charge of the scandal investigators. It is as if the Fox was left in charge of the chicken coop. We need a majority Conservative government to dig even deeper into other areas too. We all know that if the Liberal party remains in power that the whole thing will be swept under the rug. Here they are now bribing the voters with our own money in full view of all of us.
Posted at 2005-04-28 12:23:28 [PermaLink]Mel; that's always worked for Toronto voters.
Posted at 2005-04-28 12:53:51 [PermaLink]I have said it before and I will say it again: You cannot spell "Liberals" without "lies" and "liars" and, counting Chretien's threatened lawsuit because Gomery is "picking on him", "libel"
Sad thing is, if they actually had an election right now, the Toronto Star, CBC et al, would rally and label the Conservatives a dangerous "radical" party and we would end up with a Liberal majority
I watched City TV last night and they made sure they interviewed plenty of people who were worried about the Conservatives...
The Canadians have been living in a socialist/pacifist dream world for years. Remember when other countries listened to what they had to say? No? Well, it WAS a long time ago. The sad thing is they still think is listening. They've always suffered from a deep national inferiority complex and define themselves according to some notion they have of the U.S. Whatever we are, they proudly proclaim they are not. Its politics are roughly the same as the English faculty of a major university. It is effectively a one-party state, sort of like Cuba (a country it greatly admires). That single party is run by shadowy men of wealth who it turns out were involved in the food-for-oil scandal and the UN corruption. It is a tradition in Canada for the prime minister to retire a wealthy man, Cretin or whatever his name is, being the most recent example. This is done somehow on government salaries. Wink. Wink. If it comes to that, we should pick and choose who we let into the union.
Speaking as an American, I dislike the Liberals, but I 'm not sure I'd be so quick to trust the Conservatives. They might be more honest, but they also seem to be chaotic and disorganized. if they take over, I just don't see it being a solid party; it seems prone to wild swings and sticking their feet into their mouths.
Of course, I still have no idea if the conservatives could really take over even if the Libs took a beating. This might really just fragment the government too much to make a serious coalition for the foreseeable future, except as a momentary convenience. If the Liberals lose heavily, it also may spark a mass exodus to other left-wing parties.