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About That Conventional Wisdom

CPC LPC NDP GP BQ COMPAS 51 20 10 6 8 Ipsos 46 23 13 8 9 Ekos 44 24.1 14.5 8.1 9.2 Poll of Polls 47 22.4 12.5 7.4 8.7 Seat Projection 206 40 15 0 45 POP QUIZ: Which party leader has the Globe and Mail not called on to resign? Is it [...]

Posted 05 December 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

The Critics Continue to Rave!

Montreal Gazette: The idea that two parties totalling 114 MPs can supplant a governing party with 144 seems surreal precisely because it is alien to the Canadian tradition; not illegal, but not quite the Canadian way, either. Our constitution, much of it unwritten, includes an element of tradition and practice, and nothing like this has [...]

Posted 02 December 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

May I Suggest a Name?

Since we’re looking to jolly old England for our Constitutional precedents, why not use the perfectly serviceable Liberal Democrats?

Posted 01 December 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Prime Minister Dion

So let’s get this straight: Stephane Dion is going to be the prime minister; the coalition is going to last “at least one year”; and there will be a Liberal leadership contest in May of next year. So the Liberals intend to impose not one but two unelected Liberal prime ministers on the nation?

Posted 01 December 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Survey Says…

National Post: Right now, certain childish high spirits are expressing themselves boisterously in favour of a Canadian government of the left — one specifically supported by a party pledged to Canada’s dissolution. The claim is that even though the Conservatives have signalled a willingness to negotiate on the funding issue, Mr. Harper has lost all [...]

Posted 01 December 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

An Honest Question

Is it possible that the opposition parties–all opposition parties–had an agreement in principle to bring down the government and form a coalition prior to Thursday’s economic update? And that the political funding amendment was merely a very, very opportune trigger?

Posted 01 December 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Thoughts on the Economic Update

Let’s get this out of the way: I wouldn’t have done it–at least not like that. If at all, I’d have amended the public funding mechanism by equalizing it among parties reaching a certain threshold of the popular vote (say 5%), and then lowering the per-vote amount of the subsidy. There are all sorts of [...]

Posted 30 November 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Service Advisory

(1) I’m having trouble with comments. Until I find a workable solution, you’re welcome to e-mail comments to me, and I’ll post them at the bottom of the applicable post. (2) I’ve developed a new legal statement which has been published at the bottom of the page for some months. It reads as follows: All [...]

Posted 30 November 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Post-Election Political Advice

From Dave Barry: You know what I miss? I miss 1960. Not the part about my face turning overnight into the world’s most productive zit farm. What I miss is the way the grown-ups acted about the Kennedy-Nixon race. Like the McCain-Obama race, that was a big historic deal that aroused strong feelings in the [...]

Posted 24 November 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Unintentional Self-Parody Watch

Get ready for a lot more of this when Iggy’s in charge.

Posted 18 November 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °