idealisttotheend Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 If I may, I told you so. Liberals are leaning left to secure the votes they are losing to the NDP and differentiate themselves from the Cons. G&M on Liberal platform to be announced today Shorter CBC story -- same subject I just heard Mr. Layton talking about using the $7 dollar a day daycare program created in Quebec, now it is the showpiece of the Liberal platform. Yesterday I heard Mr. Martin use the phrase "a country where no one gets left behind" which is also something I hear from the NDP often (an exact quote I believe). Libs are plutting forward a "Peace and Nation building" role and pushing 'alternative' energy to be the norm. Heard those from the NDP too. If I didn't know better I'd say the Liberals just adopted most of the NDP platform, minus the missile defense opposition and the inheretance tax and scaling down most of the NDPs promises. It's fine with me, they are mostly good ideas in my estimation whoever is pushing them. Satirically though, it warms my heart that the Liberals are still adopting the platform of the party they most want votes from. No matter how things change some things always stay the same. Still it leaves a strategic problem for the Liberals. They can't attack the NDP too much because they need them in a minority situation but they probably see the danger of splitting the left vote and having the NDP take some of the centre vote as well. What will they do? Can the NDP stay relevant (PR, PR, PR)? Will the cons succeed in uniting themselves and dividing their enemies. Is Martin a Personian Liberal in his heart (like his father, I suspect so even with his record in Finance)? Elections are fun. Quote All too often the prize goes, not to who best plays the game, but to those who make the rules.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Reading from his platform document entitled Moving Canada Forward, Martin promised a $5 billion Quebec-style national child-care system. Describing it as a "signature element" of the platform, Martin said the program would create 250,000 licensed child-care spaces by 2009. "It is the single best investment we can make in the future and for the future," Martin said. "Quebec's experience is a real beacon for what can be accomplished." CBC STory I was going to say that this might be a mid-stream attempt to get some votes back from the NDP but on second thought this was probably in the works from the beginning. Will it work ? It's about image at this point, and PM PM can't really change his even with 7 weeks to go. But Harper won't be able to stay above the fray for the whole time, either. Quote Click to learn why Climate Change is caused by HUMANS Michael Hardner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGunner Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 The liberal platform is the typical red-book/1993 agenda that they used well to defeat the PC's and romp to a massive majority. The problem is, that most of this years platform is from that very 1993 book...in other words, their promises from 11 years ago were not worth the paper they were written on. I think Ontario voters just for a dose of this Liberal medication just recently. They promised a national daycare program in 1993 too. The nation needs to dismiss this platform as a book of lies. They never delivered in 1993, they certainly won't deliver this one either. Martin will be recorded in history as the Liberal to stabbed his party in the back, and squandered a huge advantage left to him by Chretien. Idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardner Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Martin will be recorded in history as the Liberal to stabbed his party in the back, and squandered a huge advantage left to him by Chretien. Idiot. Stabbed in the back ? How so ? It seems more the other way around, as Chretien left the steaming pile of adscam on his doorstep. Quote Click to learn why Climate Change is caused by HUMANS Michael Hardner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGunner Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Martin will be recorded in history as the Liberal to stabbed his party in the back, and squandered a huge advantage left to him by Chretien. Idiot. Stabbed in the back ? How so ? It seems more the other way around, as Chretien left the steaming pile of adscam on his doorstep. And who signed the cheques? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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