Posted on 01/23/2006 8:03:44 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps
If JimRob, etc. approve this is the Live Thread for the Canadian General Election, on January 23rd, 2005.
We have a while to go before the returns start coming in, but I thought the thread needed to get up and running.
Tokyo Rose is now talking.
From what I've read (and I am a major novice when in comes to Canuck politics), the Bloc HATE the Liberals. Assuming Harper is nice to Quebec, they are willing to give him five full years to govern and not support any non-confidence motion.
The Tories will have to co-operate with someone. The question is who, as every other party represented is left-of-centre. The Libs are the most centrist party we've got.
" I hope heads roll at the CBC "
Can you say ' Privitization ' ?
I kow you can and so can the Conservative party.
that's for absolute sure!!
I think so too. Martin is history. Belinda won't replace him either.
The NDP are flaming liberals. Olivia Chow of their party just promised to eliminate child poverty. Maybe if they and the liberals didn't conspire to bring in tons of unskilled, uneducated single mothers with 5 kids from Jamaica, we wouldn't have so much damn child poverty in this country.
He'd better get permission from algore to use that speech. Otherwise he may be sued for plagiarism.
You know how suit happy them libs are.
That's what I'm saying. Grand Coalition = Tories + Liberals, similar to Germany.
What a great couple of days! The Left Wing gets cancelled, The Stillahs headed to the Super Bowl, and now the Liberals in Canada get ousted. :o)
She sounds a bit like Hillary.
"Could someone rank these parties from right to left? "
Conservative Party = Small ' c ' for conservative
Liberal party= left wing neo to full socialist party.
NDP= extreme socialist, neo-marxist to full blown
communist.
Green party= Looney-kazooney marxist/Gaia party.
As I recall, the numbers were a lot closer in 1925.
And Alito gets confirmed later in the week.
Looks like Michael Ignatieff will be the next leader for the Libs. FFWIW he won't be PM, I expect Harper to pull a majority next time à la Diefenbaker.
Ah! Sorry, I misunderstood.
Really, really doubtful.
Yes I think they'll work together to a degree. It might hurt the Liberals tho. The NDP don't ever stand a chance of becoming a Federal Leadership Party.
"From what I've read (and I am a major novice when in comes to Canuck politics), the Bloc HATE the Liberals. Assuming Harper is nice to Quebec, they are willing to give him five full years to govern and not support any non-confidence motion."
A CBC commentator was saying that the BQ losing votes will make it harder for the Quebec sovereignty movement. This makes sense. I also think the CPC winning is going to make things hard for the western canada separatist movement too. Now the west will have much more of a say in Ottawa politics where before it was feeling powerless. On many fronts, Canada is much better off as a nation, starting tonight.
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