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The Politburo-style selection of Michael Ingatieff as their new leader - with a group of Liberal elites doing the selecting - was a fascinating glimpse into the Ottawa party's sense of democracy. Of course, Albertans, who have been on the receiving end of anti-West Liberal prime ministers in the past like Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chretien, know all about that offensive organization. The National Energy Program and the Kyoto Agreement are the two most obvious examples of federal Liberal regimes enacting legislation designed to deliberately harm Alberta's hydrocarbon economy. So it was with some interest last week to hear Ignatieff...

OTTAWA – A new poll suggests that a proposed Liberal-NDP coalition under Michael Ignatieff's leadership isn't much more palatable than an alliance under Stephane Dion. The Canadian Press-Harris-Decima survey found that only 32 per cent of respondents favoured a coalition led by Dion, with 59 per cent opposed. Asked if they would support a coalition led by Ignatieff, 38 per cent were supportive, with 50 per cent still opposed. The poll found that almost 70 per cent of those surveyed felt Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives should stay in power, although 41 per cent blamed them for last week's political...

Let's be clear about something. The ECONOMY has NOTHING to do with the not so silent coup that is taking place as we watch history...need a name for it? remember Adscam? Call this one COUPSCAM. It's a perfect name for what's happening on several levels and it is so Canadian..So bilingual. So au bilingue. COUPSCAM. A coup that is dressed up as a bid by the opposition to help the economy. Of course it is not anything close to that, as we learned over the weekend when we heard the tape of Jack Layton telling his caucus, that he had...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is taking his message to the airwaves tonight in a bid to convince Canadians he is still the best choice to lead the country. Harper is scheduled to make a national televised address at 7 p.m. It's the latest development in the political storm in Ottawa after the Liberals and NDP parties formed a coalition, with the support of the Bloc Quebecois, in an attempt to topple the government and take power. The Conservatives have vowed to do whatever it takes to keep the government afloat.

The difference between the US system and a parliamentary democracy is that, in the latter, events can turn on a dime (as Mrs Thatcher discovered in 1990). In Canada, in October, Stephen Harper's Conservative Party was returned to office - not with a majority in the House of Commons but nevertheless with an increased minority. By contrast, Canada's formerly "natural governing party", the Liberals, got their lowest percentage of the vote since 1867, shriveling away to their Toronto heartland with a few redoubts in the Maritimes and the Yukon. Stephane Dion, an unpopular eco-obsessive with an ascetic mien and poor...

http://www.petitiononline.com/CANADIAN/petition.html Over 20,000 strong already and it grew by 5,000 signatures in the last hour

An online website is urging Canadians to stand-up against the Liberal-NDP-Bloc Quebecois coalition. The site, rallyforcanada.ca, is urging people to turn out for rallies across the country Saturday to object to the opposition pact to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative minority government. Aside from rallies in Ottawa on Parliament Hill and outside Queen's Park in Toronto, the site calls for rallies in Halifax, Montreal, Kitchener, London, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. But one rally isn't waiting for the weekend. Peterborough Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro called a noon-hour rally today outside Peterborough's city hall. "We will...

Canadians are fighting back as the left and the MSM plan a coup with the Bloc, a Quebec separatist party to overturn the Canadian election of just 6 weeks ago. The 3 left parties in Parliament are upset that the PM Harper planned to stop the robbery of having the taxpayers pay for the political parties election campaigns. There are protest rallies being planned in Ottawa and across the country. http://www.rallyforcanada.ca/ http://twitter.com/rallyforcanada and there is a Facebook page ‘Support Canadian Democracy: National Protest’. There is call for Canadians of honor to fly the Canadian flag upside down across the country...