Non-Confidence Vote.
The only thing that has changed since the vote in May is Jack Layton. At first he was the only one that 'got it' about how a Minority Government works. I guess his polling showed that if an election was held he would get the balance of power and could form a ruling coalition with the Liberals. He has the most to lose and the most to gain if the vote goes his way. Sadly, Harper and the Conservitives didn't really try to get anything done but bring down the Liberals. That is certainly their perogative but why would the opposition parties play in to the Liberals hands like this? We were going to have a vote in March or early April anyway. The economy is just now starting to falter and by Spring '06 its unhealthiness will be quite evident to everyone. With a poor economy the Liberals will be pounded but with a seemingly strong economic platform to run on I'm predicting a Liberal minority with the small possibility of a Liberal majority. If either of those scenarios happen Harper will have to go and maybe a moderate like McKay can take the helm and bring the Conservatives into the 21st century.
The only thing that has changed since the vote in May is Jack Layton. At first he was the only one that 'got it' about how a Minority Government works. I guess his polling showed that if an election was held he would get the balance of power and could form a ruling coalition with the Liberals. He has the most to lose and the most to gain if the vote goes his way. Sadly, Harper and the Conservitives didn't really try to get anything done but bring down the Liberals. That is certainly their perogative but why would the opposition parties play in to the Liberals hands like this? We were going to have a vote in March or early April anyway. The economy is just now starting to falter and by Spring '06 its unhealthiness will be quite evident to everyone. With a poor economy the Liberals will be pounded but with a seemingly strong economic platform to run on I'm predicting a Liberal minority with the small possibility of a Liberal majority. If either of those scenarios happen Harper will have to go and maybe a moderate like McKay can take the helm and bring the Conservatives into the 21st century.
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I just keep preaching that the "alternative" - a Conservative Minority - will last about 12 seconds. Aside from the plethora of policy issues that reveal The Conservatives as a complete anachronism (policy styled after an illusory post-WW2/pre-globalization perception of a sustainable socioeconomic reality), we will just be back to square one, but I guess we will know why we are there. I think Jack Layton has played things well despite Harper's assertions that the Liberal-NDP coalition was "undemocratic" (does that not reveal a complete misunderstanding of what democracy is?) - Jack has made most efficient use of his limited political power.
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