Posc Student

I have to agree with the others on this. Just because someone has built a good life for themselves doesn't neccessarily mean they've lived a privelaged life. Even if they have lived a privelaged life what does it have to do with anything? Danny Williams for instance grew up better off then most families in St. John's and went on to be a rhode scholar and is worth over $200 million, and he's was able to connect with ordinary people better then probably 95% of politicians. While the problems in the Liberal Party go deeper then just the leader they still need a strong leader to fix all their other issues. I believe Dominic LeBlanc was the party's best choice in 2008 and while I'd still be fine with him as leader I'm not sure how charismatic he is to really engage people. He probably has a less controversial background then many of the other candidates though.

My thought exactly.

After a strong start it now looks like the Liberals may have a bad election and Michael Ignatieff will be gone in no time. Who's going to be the next to lead the Liberals though? They need someone who will stay on for a number of years and possibly a number of elections in order to rebuild. They also need a leader who will bring the party back to the centre. There doesn't really seem to be a clear leader for the Liberals, or really any party, but who within the current caucus or outside the caucus could be the next leader?

I'd like a result similar to this. The Conservatives would have a majority and we'd have a more stable government, but with only a four seat majority the Conservatives would still need to be a bit careful. The Liberals would have the time to have a leadership convention and rebuild and the NDP and Bloc would likely be forced to choose a new leader before the next election.

It's not really that Ignatieff does not support it, he voted for it several years ago. What he has said is that Canada already has low corporate taxes compared to other G8 countries and that the money could be better used. He believes that when the economy is good you cut taxes and when it's bad you keep them the same. I don't know how I feel about his whole theory but I think it's quite clear.

What a svary thought.

The party has successors and without a majority Harper will be gone, he has not done the party any good. The Conservatives should have a majority, they've had the sponsorship scandal, Dion, and now Ignatieff. Harper cannot win over the east, in 2008 the party just barely won more seats then the Liberals.

Not yet because he's still close to a majority. If he can't win a majority on his fourth try, and with the Liberals at their lowest level in history the knives will be out.

I like her, Iggy gave her the shaft after Nannygate which was a shame.

It could still happen, we have two weeks and they only need a dozen seats. They're polling well in Ontario so as long as they hold their seats elsewhere and make gains in Ontario they could win. While the NDP are polling well in Quebec their numbers have changed very little in other parts of the country and they are even lower in places. 20% support for the NDP with 23% plus in Quebec would mean they have gone down elsewhere in Canada.

The Liberals may be better off with a Conservative majority. Ignatieff would resign, the party could have a proper leadership convention, with an election 4 years away the race would be open to a wider range of people because with a minority it's kind of harder for someone outside caucus to run, the winner would have plenty of time to rebuild and figure out who they're going to be from now on. A majority would be interesting for the NDP as well. Jack Layton would almost definitely resign, even with a breakthrough in Quebec and possibly the ROC, due to his age. We'd see over the next few years if the NDP pick another likeable leader or not and if an unpopular leader or just someone people are indifferent about can actually maintain the support they say under Jack. Is the NDP only popular now because of there leader or because of there policies? Also if they to manage to have a breakthrough in Quebec we could possibly see the end of the Bloc as a dominant force, or like Quebeckers have done before they may flirt with the NDP give them some seats and then give them the boot.

Nanos has been showing lower then usual polling results for the NDP since the begining of the campaign, they went up after the debate but have tumbled again. You're correct other pollster are showing that they're doing okay in the province, though most of the recent polls we've seen from other pollsters were conducted last week when Nanos had them higher. Some new polls in the morning will show what's been going on over the last few days.

The Nanos poll is 300 a day for 3 days, 900 people, and they've been polling since the begining of the campaign and the NDP have been low the whole time, they went down to 8% at one point.

Ignatieff is an extremely bright man, and probably wouldn't be a bad prime minister, but the fact is there is way to much dirt on him. The man is really a celebrity in parts of the world and has written so much over the years, a lot of those things he has written though are controversial. It's one thing to say Harper used to say this or that but when you actually have tv interviews, commercials and books on Ignatieff it's hard to cover things up. ------------------ As well while the NDP are gaining in Quebec we also have Nanos, who were on the mark in their 2006 polling, showing them at 12% in Ontario. While strong polling in Quebec could start an orange wave if it does not the NDP may only win a few seats in Ontario, which could make Quebec gains almost pointless. It will be interesting to see what happens to Layton, while his deputy leader wants to give him the boot it would be hard for Layton to leave if he won a record number of seats. A new NDP leader could cause them to go down the drain, the party only does well when they have a popular leader because they can make the public believe they are more honest then the Liberals and Conservatives. I'll be excited to see if the CPC or Liberals start running attack ads against Layton, while the leaders attack him in speeches there are never tv or radio ads attacking him. With Layton now so popular it will be hard for Harper or Ignatieff to bash him without fasing backlash themselves.

I don't live in Nova Scotia, thank god. Nova Scotia now has the highest taxes in the country, one of the highest tuition rates and what do you get out of it?

Are those under the poverty line any better off though? The government gives them back so much money but their taxes were still raised.

Here are the hightlights of Kathy Dunderdale's first budget as premier.

Yes hardcore liberal shill. What was the HST risen to again?

What stage of dementia would you say they are unable to vote at? There are lots of people with dementia who are functioning well enough that they can easily make a decision on who to vote for based on their values. I don't see how voting could be abused? They are still voting by themselves, what's the difference in me taking a person with no knowledge of politics to vote and saying vote for this party?

A loan guarantee costs $0 for the federal government but it saves millions for the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia, who both rquested it. Jean Charest could have easily asked for the same thing. You're also one to talk about bashing another society, you're doing just that. Standard "Quebec bashing", where do you people get this stuff too? The only difference in Quebeckers is that the majority of you speak french, which people speak in all other parts of Canada and around the world. I will never understand why people in Quebec think "their culture" is any different then other parts of Cabnada.

What are you talking about?

The government of the day bought an equity stake in Hibernia, they've easily made all their money back and now don't want to give up the equity stake. You should probably look up what a loan guarantee is seeing it costs $0. Equalization doesn't make much difference to us now seeing our government knows what to do with our money unlike yours. You live in the biggest welfare province there ever was with you corrupt socialist governments that cry separation anytime something doesn't go your own way.

Bob Rae will never be leader of another political party.

Newfoundlanders who always want money?

Who's leading?