"If my grandma had wheels she'd be a tractor"
You can't say Canadian politics isn't exciting. The West (read Alberta) will always always hate the liberals (and why not the NDP while they're at it) and this only gives them more fodder.
It's unbelievable what has happened in the past week in Canadian federal politics! The opposition (Liberals) plus the NDP and the Bloq will unite to bring down the Conservative minority government. It was overly obvious when Harper called the snap election in October that if he had any chance of renewal it would not come about when Obama was in power in the US. Somehow, I fell that election, having ripples the world over, would lead to more candians voting Liberal. One only has to see the kind of commoradery that Mulroney and Regean had or Chrétien with Clinton, despite their differences, it only serves Canada well for her PM to have good relationions with the American president. Hence, it was Harper's best bet to get the Canadian election over with before the American.
The worst thing is that Harper is such a two-faced politician. A few years ago he threw a coalition with the Bloq on the table when the Liberals were the minority government, much to the dismay of many Canadians, and now he berets the Liberals and NDP for making a deal with the devil when actually the coalition is only between the Liberals and NDP and the Bloq has agreed to support them in a non-confidence vote! And then he goes on to say that what they are planning is unconsitiutiona and illegal. Somehow I never heard the word coup in any discussions, I don't see how making a coalition is illegal. Now we have to wait unti the 26th of January since the GG has suspended parliment! oh Stephen!
It's unbelievable what has happened in the past week in Canadian federal politics! The opposition (Liberals) plus the NDP and the Bloq will unite to bring down the Conservative minority government. It was overly obvious when Harper called the snap election in October that if he had any chance of renewal it would not come about when Obama was in power in the US. Somehow, I fell that election, having ripples the world over, would lead to more candians voting Liberal. One only has to see the kind of commoradery that Mulroney and Regean had or Chrétien with Clinton, despite their differences, it only serves Canada well for her PM to have good relationions with the American president. Hence, it was Harper's best bet to get the Canadian election over with before the American.
The worst thing is that Harper is such a two-faced politician. A few years ago he threw a coalition with the Bloq on the table when the Liberals were the minority government, much to the dismay of many Canadians, and now he berets the Liberals and NDP for making a deal with the devil when actually the coalition is only between the Liberals and NDP and the Bloq has agreed to support them in a non-confidence vote! And then he goes on to say that what they are planning is unconsitiutiona and illegal. Somehow I never heard the word coup in any discussions, I don't see how making a coalition is illegal. Now we have to wait unti the 26th of January since the GG has suspended parliment! oh Stephen!
