Posted on 01/23/2006 6:03:23 AM PST by fanfan
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Reuters is right. In a parliamentary system, the "winning" party cannot create a government on its own unless it wins an outright majority of the seats in government. Since this is not likely to happen in Canada (but it could), the Conservatives would have to create a governing coalition by joining one of the other three major parties (Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois). Since these three parties represent varying degrees of big-government Marxism (and in the case of Bloc Quebecois, big-government Marxism in a world in which Canada as it is currently constituted doesn't even exist), you can be sure that a Conservative "victory" today is likely to be pretty subdued in the long term.
Did Fox News Channel in Canada have anything to do with it?
Ping.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
They can still go to France...
I hate to rain on everyones parade, but never underestimate the power of vote fraud. The liberals in Canada are in a lot of places in government where serious harm can be done. I'm hoping for the best, but expecting the worse.
That's exactly my point. Layton's New Democratic Party is the most radically Marxist of the three major liberal parties, so you can be sure that whatever comes out of that coalition is likely to be either largely inconsequential or highly schizophrenic in nature.
When George W. Bush "opened the door" to Ted Kennedy we got the No Child Left Behind Act. Are you suggesting that Canada would do well to imitate this kind of sh!t?
I was wondering where you were.
I had worries that you had been kidnapped by Liberals with ties to the radical, extremist, ultra-left wing US Democratic party. ;~)
Yes...indeed you are correct and I do understand the basics of a parliamentary system, Yank though I am. However, my point was that if the situation was reversed, and the lefties were coming in as the conservatives are now, Reuters would--in all likelihood--have left off the adjectival "limited" from the subject "government."
This is big news for the USA and yet (even fox) the media is giving it only passing mention.
Fox attempted to say Canada is independent minded. It was as if they were doing damage control.
Fox did a pitiful passing story. Pathetic at best. (as if juan williams or mccuddy reported the story)
This conservative victory is getting all the attention of a marriage amendment vote. (in other words NONE)
"If this happens, now where will whiny American libs threaten to go when elections don't go their way?"
lol... I just sent an email to my liberal sister (who jumped on the band wagon of leftists who said they were going to move to Canada), asking her the same question.
You can get a live audio feed on http://www.cfrb.com, a Toronto talk radio station. Same feed is on shortwave CFRX 6070 kHz. Results will start at 9:30pm EST. Also, there should be regular updates posted at canoe.ca, ctv.ca and canada.com.
We started the election 5 to 8 point behind and all history and the media running against us....
IT IS A TREMENDOUS VICTORY TO BEAT THE GOD DARN GRITS EVEN IF IT IS BY MINORITY.
THE LIBERALS GOT A MINORITY LAST TIME AND THAT WAS A CERTAINLY A DEFEAT FOR US WAS IT NOT?
Perhaps the biggest difference between the two is that the Liberal Party could get 35% of the popular vote and gain a clear majority in parliament, while the Tories would have a difficult time getting a clear majority even with 45% of the populat vote. This is because the Tories tend to win their seats by a wide margin -- but they win fewer of them . . . while Liberals win their seats by narrow margins -- but they win more of them.
Me too.
Any one have any extra Valium?
"Amazing Liz Thompson story in today's Gazette (registration required). Killer quote: "Ghislain Maltais, a former Quebec Liberal MNA who is working for Tory Lawrence Cannon in the Outaouais riding of Pontiac, estimates hundreds of Liberal organizers are working for the Conservatives in Quebec..."
"Was on CFRA this morning, and I got asked as I have been too many times in this election about SES. My advice to Steve Madely: read Ipsos. Here's the Ipsos release headline from last night, in case you don't want to read it all: "Conservatives On Cusp of Majority
Liberals and Bloc Battle it out for Offical Opposition As NDP Makes Impressive Gains." Heres their seat model: "Conservatives -148-152; Liberals - 62-66; NDP - 34-38; and Bloc - 56-60." Heres their poll percentages: "Conservatives 38%; Liberals 27%; NDP 19%; Bloc 12%; Green 4%." HERES THEIR SAMPLE SIZE: 10,500, Margin of Error +/- 1%. Got that? A SAMPLE SIZE OF MORE THAN 10,000 CANADIANS WHO ARE COMMITTED VOTERS. A M.O.E. OF ONE PER CENT. PLEASE, PLEASE, LETS STOP TALKING ABOUT SES. THEYRE GREAT PEOPLE AND ALL THAT. BUT STOP. STOP, I BEG YOU."
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