Comments on: What now, Coalition?

By: magpie mayhem

magpie mayhem — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:27:45 +0000

Mark Francis: Yeah. Some comedy script writer needs to do one on Ms Jean’s courtesy call to P.E. Obama which, of course, starts with the punch line: “Queen’s Representative in Canada speaking”. The nature of the office of G.G. might have predicted the response we got, not to mention the timing was good. The Obama crew will be starting up around the same time as Cdn parliament resumes and – shudder – change will roll out nice and smooth across the continent. Beijing York, the real coup is in the Con vs Coalition dust-up coming together on cue to divide the grassroots along tried and true lines. Yes the Cons whipped up separatist hysteria. But why was it that the Coalition’s 3 wise men couldn’t find the High Road with GPS? One school of thought has it that all the characters played their parts exactly – right down to the producer of Dion’s home movie, rated 5 stars.

By: Beijing York

Beijing York — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:42:36 +0000

The NDP-LIB coalition desperately needs a better PR manager/adviser. The coalition idea was being treated as novel and thoughtful for the first few days until Harper unleashed his PR machine and twisted everything around. Seriously, there were a few days there where conservative media pundits were calling Harper toast and suggesting he resign. That in itself was, no pun intended, quite the “coup”

By: Mark Francis

Mark Francis — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:16:52 +0000

I believe that it is possible, given Harper’s sudden conciliatory tone after meeting with the GG, that the trade-off Harper has made is that if he does not survive a confidence vote in January, if the coalition remains viable, he won’t get an election.

Sadly, due to the lack of transparency, we really have no idea what went on in that meeting.

The GG represents a gaping hole in our democracy, as does the unelected PM’s powers.

And don’t get me started about our barely representative parliamentary system.