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Posted by Scott Tribe on December 14, 2009, at 1:48 pm |
..and why I mentioned in the prior blogpost of mine that the pressure needs to be kept on them on the Afghan detainees story. The first poll taken after the Afghan detainee flap and the revelations by Colvin and then the sudden reversal by General Natynczyk that yes, there was evidence that Afghan detainees had been tortured shows public opinion starting to turn against the Cons:
Conservative Lead Narrows as Liberals Bounce Back
The governing Conservative Party is still leading in Canada, but the Liberal Party has gained support, according to the Canadian Political Pulse, conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion in partnership with the Toronto Star…Across the country, [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on September 17, 2009, at 3:09 pm |
I was given a hint from an LPC member last night that this maneuver might occur, but that person wasn’t really sure the Liberals would go through with it. The party apparently decided to do so, however, and I think it’s a very clever strategy on forcing the NDP to make some choices:
The Liberals have offered to speed passage of Tory EI legislation, hoping to rob the NDP of its rationale for propping up the Harper government. The Liberals proposed Thursday that the bill – worth up to $1 billion in extended employment insurance benefits for about 190,000 long-term workers – be whisked through all stages of the legislative [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on September 8, 2009, at 7:30 pm |
At least, that’s what it appears to me to look like, as these statements and actions from Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe today seems to indicate he and his party doesn’t intend to support the Conservatives on any non-confidence vote (at least, not beyond any theoretical Ways and Means Motion trickery the Conservatives might try to table in order to blame the Liberals for killing the Home Renovation Tax Credit, as Mr. Duceppe has said his party would vote for that). I don’t see a lot of wiggle room here from Monsieur Deceppe’s statement today to back off a “no-confidence in the government vote” by the Bloc:
A federal election [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on September 1, 2009, at 10:55 am |
A lot of sound and fury from some NDP’ers about the Liberals holding a fundraiser in Sudbury; the main beef being because it was a high priced event (550$ to attend) and somehow, that’s inappropriate because of a strike that has nothing to do with the Liberals in the first place.
A couple observations: I’m sure the NDP wouldn’t have uttered a peep about this fundraiser nor express their moral outrage if Sudbury happened to be a Conservative-held riding, rather then an NDP one. Apparently, they feel threatened in this riding. I’m also sure that if the NDP could find people willing to pay 550$ a pop to listen [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on August 17, 2009, at 11:43 am |
I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but as a followup to my post of yesterday about how I felt the NDP delegates shot themselves in the foot by not even bringing the proposed name change discussion to a vote, we now have other delegates, including NDP MP Joe Cromartin when talking to the Toronto Star, accusing those opponents of the name change of an indirect filibuster so this motion wouldn’t even come up on the floor for discussion (read more). [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on August 16, 2009, at 2:17 pm |
So apparently, the NDP Convention “ran out of time” to discuss the question of whether to change the NDP’s name to just the Democratic Party. It wasn’t prioritized as an important issue, and delegates declined to change the order of votes to make it higher priority. So, apparently, it goes off to some committee of the national leadership to consult about (in otherwards, they’ll try to bury it and forget about it).
I’ve had one NDP delegate/blogger, Tyler Kinch, try to argue with me on Facebook that the NDP “spent time debating policies that will bring jobs back to Canada” and prioritized that. Right, but did any of those [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on August 3, 2009, at 8:57 am |
At the upcoming NDP Convention, there seems to be a move afoot to drop the “new” from the NDP’s name and just change it to the Democratic Party. I presume this might be not just a nod to the fact the party isn’t really ‘new” anymore (being as they’ve had the name since 1961), but perhaps trying to get some subliminal good will vibes from their potential namesake in the US, what with President Obama being popular and all.
Not that anyone from the NDP cares what I have to say on the matter, but if you’re going to change your party’s name, why not change it to the [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 2, 2009, at 9:25 pm |
NDP MP Chris Charlton needs better talking points then what she used on CTV today.. or the NDP does… because the reaction she gave was utterly hypocritical. (Read more) [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on September 28, 2008, at 11:42 am |
A couple of thoughts on the NDP this Sunday AM.
- Danielle posted a blogpiece at her site yesterday challenging Jack Layton’s premise that only he could stop Harper, by asking any NDP blogger/supporter to come up with 100 ridings they think the NDP could win, that would at least propel them to Official Opposition status. So far, responses from NDP partisans have been in short supply. Heck, I’d be even more lenient then Danielle: I’d take a list of 75 ridings the NDP thinks it can win in.
- A rhetorical question on my part: I, like others, am still rather sceptical even in the worst-case scenario for [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on July 8, 2008, at 5:22 pm |
Since Blogging a Dead Horse was crowing this morning about how Ipsos-Reid shows somehow that Canadians are sceptical about the Green Shift (a notion that Red Tory by the way refutes rather convincingly over at his blog), I thought it only appropriate to mention the Harris-Decima poll talked about in the Star which shows that Canadians want aggressive action on climate change by a wide margin (and no Mr. Harper, being aggressive doesn’t mean agreeing to non-binding targets).
I’d add that I find that its regrettable that the NDP and its partisans continue to charge at the Liberals Green Shift plan rather then go at the Conservatives, who absolutely [...]
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