Can I start over?
Where the hell is Dion’s address to the nation?
If these guys can’t get a tape to the television networks, how the hell do they expect to govern a country? Clearly somebody couldn’t find the “focus” controls.
UPDATE: Did anybody else notice the book in the top left of the screen during Dion’s speech – it’s called Hot Air. It seems terribly appropriate to the content of the speech itself.
Did anyone else notice the “dark clouds over the Parliament Buildings” graphic used on CBC? Pretty cool.
Partisanship and the Coalition
If, as he has been accused, Stephen Harper was battling the coalition out of sheer partisanship, it would be the wrong political strategy.
Allowing the Liberals and NDP to go ahead and make a deal with separatists would be to their long-term detriment for whatever perceived short-term hold on power that might provide them. This would be a short-term problem, but in the long-term, this would be HUGE for Conservatives!
So why the negative reaction? Is he trying to “cling” to power for power’s sake?
First of all, without the support of at least one other party, he doesn’t really have power anyway, so the question is something of a farce.
No, the reason why Stephen Harper is fighting this coalition is because he cares about his country. Allowing this coalition to go forward will be a MASSIVE boost to separatist groups across the country – not just in Quebec. In the West, who elected 80% Conservative MPs, there will be a feeling of betrayal. In Quebec, people will be justified in voting for separatists (since, it seems, it is a path to power after all). It would prove that electing separatists works not only in opposition, but also in Government. There remains no more reason not to vote separatist – even for non-separatists, it just makes perfect sense to vote Bloc.
Furthermore, we are in the middle of an economic storm. Replacing the largest party in Government with a hodge-podge government made up of socialists, liberals and separatists is a simple recipe for instability. Today Mr. Harper extended the olive branch to the Liberals (who, frankly, have the most to lose if they move forward with this deal), and was told to forget it.
So all the poison of the economic update was taken out, the Liberals were invited to contribute to the Conservative economic plan, but still they are interested in bringing down the government for short-term power, long-term anger from Canadians, destabilizing national unity, and providing unstable government in the middle of the poorest economy since the Great Depression.
Never underestimate the power of arrogance.
The Most Powerful Person in Canada This Week
Want to bet she thought she’d be cutting ribbons and shaking hands with schoolchildren when she took this gig.
Now she will decide the outcome of the most contentious constitutional crisis to face Canada since The Charlottetown Accord.
Do You Think It Is Easy To ?
As Borat said: “If you do not vote for him, he will take power.” This, it appears, is also true of Stephane Dion.
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Not only do we kick out the winners and replace them with the losers, but we bring the people who were elected to destroy the country into the governing coalition. Am I reading this right?
Have the Conservatives become so EVIL that they are now worse for our country than the very people who are making no qualms about their ambitions to destroy the country?
In other countries, when democracy fails like this, people start shooting.
Let’s just hope that cooler heads prevail.
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