[IvanT]

What's interesting me is that Mackay fella selling out at the PC leadership campaign. He may well have driven the proverbial final nail into the PC coffin, and the Alliance could well stand to benefit the most. The PC party's (and Orchard's) stubborn insistence on not uniting the right may well backfire on them. It's possible they've inadvertantly united the right by virtue of all the true right wing members defecting to the Alliance because of the party's behaviour.

Now that's a true Canadian method of uniting, if I do say so myself.

[headsonpikes]

Don't forget there's a lot of relatively right-wing folks who vote Liberal. If the Liberals campaign to the left, so to speak, to meet the criticisms of the PCs and NDP, many of these Ontario voters could be driven to the Alliance.

Otherwise, it's going to be all Liberals, all the time, forever.

Aaarrgh!

[-YYZ-]

I've said for some time now that I would vote for the Aliiance/Reform in the next Federal election (if I thought it would do any good in my riding). They seem to be the only party who, if they took power, might actually make some of the reforms that this country's political systems need. This despite the fact that their social conservatism is galling to me. I fear, however, if they did ever take power we would quickly find that they would be as unwilling as all the others to do anything that would diminish their power or reduce their perqs.