Yeah right... it's uh... "logical"
So long Caspar Milquetoast... we Conservatives are gonna miss ya...
Stéphane Dion announced his departure as Liberal Leader today, paving the way for Michael Ignatieff to take over as interim chief on Wednesday.Okay, Iggy... you're on deck.
"As the Governor General has granted a prorogation, IT IS A LOGICAL TIME for us Liberals to assess how we can best prepare our party to carry this fight forward," Mr. Dion says in his resignation letter.
And while we're at it... whatever happened to... "I'm no quitter!"?
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"Rae press conference 3 pm today. Will it be 'I'm toast' or 'I will fight'?"Hey, Bob... I've got a question... "Just how long does it take for a politician to abandon everthing he's ever believed in... and jump to another party?"
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Rae press conference 3 pm today.
Will it be "I'm toast" or
"I will fight" ?
I'm repeating myself here.
We Conservatives need to talk about Quebec.
Not about the Bloc, but about the 60% of Quebecers who voted federalist,
yet Bloc won 75% of the seats.
Quebec, in this Conservative government, is as under represented as
Western Canada would have been in a coalition government.
Time to reach across the isle and get Lib MPs elected in Quebec', but offer them what?
How do we correct this lopsided representation for Quebec?
If we don't do something, Quebecers will keep voting in more Bloc MPs.
Or the Libs/Dippers will unite in Quebec, which is my second best choice. What ever it takes to replace Bloc MPs with federalist MPs.
Danny gets his ABC, no need to reach out to Nfld, they got what they wanted, 60% of Quebecers did not.
When the Liberals picked the Bloc over the Alliance to be the Official Opposition with all the perks, status and resources, they laid the foundation for this mess we are in. The Bloc should never have been the Official Oppostion since they are not ready to replace the government at any time.
The Bloc might have faded away.
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thx, rich... -- main post updated --
and wilson... it's time for quebec to make a choice. if they really want out... they can give us back the fighter planes, the tanks and the passports... and pay off their share of the national debt.
i tell ya... the sovereign state of alberta is looking more attractive by the day.
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Steffie don't go, the Conservatives love ya man.
Neo, only 40% chose the Bloc.
And they are about to give Charest a majority.
It's pretty obvious they do not want to separate.
So how do we get off this merry-go-round?
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"wilson says... So how do we get off this merry-go-round?"
we who?
this isn't about most canadians... it's about a small percentage of the inhabitants of one province.
quebec just has to sack up and tell duceppe, parizeau and marois to get lost.
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The merry-go-round of the more federalist parties do to woo Quebecers,
the more Bloc uses these gestures to say to Quebecers
'see, without the Bloc here as a threat, no government would have even talked about the fiscal imbalance'.
During a radio show this Morning(dec 8 ) a Liberal backer kept mocking Harper for not having a plan which triggered the CoupScam by Jack and Gilles , but when pressed by the Host over the Coup-alition plan for the recession....they had no answer and said they wanted to wait until the jan 26 Budget and to see what Obama does for the Auto-Industry in the USA.
So basically , we didn't Plan to Fail...we just failed to plan .
"So how do we get off this merry-go-round?"
Wilson, the trick is to remove the oxygen $upply that comes with being an officially recognized caucus in the House.
Change the rules established by the House that defines official party status so that if a caucus wants recognition they must have actively campaigned in more than one province as well as have 12 seats in the house.
What else?
Remember what got the opposition so hot in the first place? Thats right, the funding from EC for parties.
Harper can argue that because some parties have no intention of ever campaigning in more than one region it creates an uneven playing field, but to be punitive to only that party would just as bad. Therefore the funding should be cut to make it fair to all parties and force all parties to provide representation to all Canadians.
Its one idea. But the essence of it is the same.
If the Bloc wants to sit in a House that represents Canadian interests, they should be reaching out to all Canadians not just some based on ethnic background..which seems to imply the Bloc is racist doesn't it....wheres the HRC when you need it?
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