Now is the time to call an Election!

[madmax]

No it's not, we just had one. It's time they earned their money and do what they were elected to do.

I thought they could use the next 7 weeks off fully paid with all parlimentary perks and privledges. This is a tough time, CHristmas is coming, then New Years, and alot of those gala events and holiday travel are ahead. It's time our Parlimentarians had some time off. They work real hard, and sometimes, well, the people who work there, you know, the other MPs, well they are pretty difficult. I find that MPs behave much better when on a trip to Bermuda or Mexico. A trip to Europe is nice too. It is great to be with the family. Things are tough right now. No time to be in Canada. Didn't you know, housing prices are falling, industry is leaving, and as mentioned today Record Unemployment Jump. This is no time to be in the house. Have you never played hot potato? That is the economy, and I think, if we wait long enough. It will get better. Apparently all the MPs are going to Santa Clause to put a strong economy in their stockings. Apparently last year, they mistook the lump of coal as an sign that Global Warming doesn't exist or does exist, and they started fighting about it. So this year they are asking Santa Clause to come up with a clear solution to the economy, and not screw it up like last year.

In the meantime, its holiday season for all the parlimentarians. None of them want to meet the locals. They know the public is mad as hell at them. So, it is very important that there wages continue and their pension contributions and well, Bernier has a new traveling companion to try out.

Politicians were elected to prorogue parliment. This is good. See, I think they are going to like this so much, they will do it again. There is alot more time to think about important issues when your in France or the UK, and far less distractions.

For this reason, MPs aren't interested in an election. Life is good.

And yes, someday, maybe late January, they can come back to work and do their job, which is, how to get the electorated distracted enough to buy another pack of gum on their tab.

Anyone foolish enough to think that the public wants another election, I mean the public, not partisan hacks, will triple compound the efforts of Harper and Dion.

Now is the time to deal with the economy. We look like a bunch of jackasses to the world. We are supposed to be a Gobal leader. I can just see Canada report to the G8.

Well, we just closed parliment. What do you think Gordon Brown?

[jdobbin]

I don't know whats holding him back?? Harper would be a Majority sitting PM!

Maybe he is nervous about the the fact that only 20% of Canadians want another election. Think that might be affecting him in just the slightest?

[madmax]

Yes i agree!

You have Great Ideas.

[Shady]

Thank you Dion! Thank you Layton! Thank you Duceppe!

A more incompetent group of politicians one could not find.

OTTAWA - Almost three-quarters of Canadians say they are "truly scared" for the future of the country and a solid majority say they would prefer another election to having the minority Conservative government replaced by a coalition led by Stephane Dion, a new Ipsos-Reid poll says.

The poll also indicates Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives would romp to a majority victory with a record 46 per cent public support if an election were held today.

Link

[wulf42]

You have Great Ideas.

why because i agree with the poster??..............i guess you didn t get the message the other night about personal attacks from the moderators....so either keep to the topic or go away!

[blueblood]

Maybe he is nervous about the the fact that only 20% of Canadians want another election. Think that might be affecting him in just the slightest?

I'd say he's waiting to release his budget parameters and hit them with a one-two punch.

[wulf42]

Thank you Dion! Thank you Layton! Thank you Duceppe!

A more incompetent group of politicians one could not find.

OTTAWA - Almost three-quarters of Canadians say they are "truly scared" for the future of the country and a solid majority say they would prefer another election to having the minority Conservative government replaced by a coalition led by Stephane Dion, a new Ipsos-Reid poll says.

The poll also indicates Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives would romp to a majority victory with a record 46 per cent public support if an election were held today.

Link

Damn straight.........the three stooges couldn't have helped Harper more........lol!!!

[wulf42]

I'd say he's waiting to release his budget parameters and hit them with a one-two punch.

Harper is using the time to get his ducks in a row, he will be ready for them in January.........the three stooges were hoping to topple the CPC

before they had time to realize what was happening, well it didn t happen and it backfired on them!

[madmax]

why because i agree with the poster??..............i guess you didn t get the message the other night about personal attacks from the moderators....so either keep to the topic or go away!

Follow your own thread back. You stated that you want to see the Prime Minister dissolve parliment and call an election. You clarified that position again. You want an election and under this scenario, no matter how much I disagree with having an election, I can say and say it again.

you have great ideas.

[reasonoverpassion]

First of all, I'm no Harper supporter. But the possibility for a CPC majority looks increasingly dim. The simple reason is Quebec. Harper has been doing a lot of work in Quebec. Lgically he knows the path to power is building a coalition of Canadian made of the following groups:

(1) The reminants of the PC supporters in Altantic Canada (10 Votes)

(2) Fortress Alberta (28 Votes)

(3) B.C Interior and Frasier Valley (20 Votes)

(4) Sask and Manitoba (20 Votes)

Thats 78 votes, essentially the base he has to work from now. He weaker in Atlantic Canada that he should be...

OK Westerners-- 78 seats 154 needed to win, Let look at Ontario

Already have 44 Ontario seats in tradional support areas, Rural Eastern and Southern Ontatio. Need to make gains in the "905" Toronto bedroom communties, need to make gain in smaller Ontario cities such as London and Kitchener. Almost hopeless in 416, Hamilton, Windsor, Ottawa--these areas are really hard for the CPC

Need 20 seats more out of Ontario

Thats 142. In Quebec appeal needs to made to "soft nationalist" voters in rural areas. This where the real damage has been done, denouncing BQ supporters etc. Almost anyone who would vote CPC in Quebec probably voted BQ at one time on another. He will be hard pressed to hang on to the 10 seats they have in Quebec.

Now thanks to Harper's overblown rhetoric, they have been cut off and are back in the arms of BQ who looks the "true defender" of Quebec

No majority for the CPC. Election was held today--another Conservative minority around 145 seats, in reality.

[eyeball]

The chance of any federal party ever getting a majority in Canada is slimmer now due to Quebec voting preferences. Its time to embrace the horror, it looks like regional representation is inevitable in a FPTP electoral system such as ours. Quebecers have simply embraced this sooner than anyone else is all.

Personally I wish we could just get rid of provincial governments altogether and divide their responsibilities between federal and local authorities. There are just to many forces all trying to pull the country in too many directions at once and something's going to break. I think its either going to be the country or the provinces. Whatever it is though all our little local areas will be the ones who pick up the pieces.

I see lots of options but the one I don't see is that Canada will ever be the same again. Like a labouriously created sand Mandala, nothing lasts forever. I think Canadians need to be a little more Zen-like about letting go of their attachment to this because the harder they try to hang on to it the more it will hurt when they finally can't.

Edited December 6, 2008 by eyeball

[BC Viking]

Perhaps getting his Resume updated would be a good idea. Only problem; can't provide good references.

[M.Dancer]

If there was another Election, and Harper is not given a Majority, does that mean that the Opposition would be given a mandate to form a Coalition Government? What do you think?

Yes...if both sides (CPC and the opposition) ran on that plank.