Scribbling some perspective on Canada, Ottawa and whatever else crosses my mind…
…in advance of next year’s Federal election.
I was just cruising through Twitter and found this:
Looking through the followers of this anonymous account, there is a veritable who’s-who of the Ottawa conservative Twitter attack dawg crew.
Same ol’, same ol’….
David is and has been a very effective and responsive MP. And as the next year unfolds, you can be sure that I’ll be doing what I can to return him to the Hill for another term.
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… but this may bite Justin’s butt after he is elected PM.
However, critics can no longer point to a lack of direction or policies… This is a doozy!
Good on him, this is the type of leadership many Canadians have been waiting for.
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…huh?
Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey called the decision disappointing.
“Fifty two thousand people in Etobicoke-Centre followed the rules, cast their ballots and today had their democratic decision thrown into doubt,” he said.
Well, no, Mr. DeLorey. Some of those 52,000 voters in the riding did NOT follow the rules and that is why the election results have been overturned. The judge’s ruling in this case is an intrinsic part of the democratic process.
Got a problem with that?
Bring on the by-election!!!!
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Once legal appeals, in this case, at the SC level, are exhausted.
This election will provide a bit of an insight about whether or not the good folks in Etobicoke Centre have been paying attention to the goings-on of that 3 ring circus called the Harper government. And in turn this may provide an indicator about the feelings of Canadians on the broader scale (outside of Alberta, that is).
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One year ago today, a minority of Canadians elected a Harper majority government.
So, what have I learned?
What did I miss?
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Kinsella’s column in the Sun today pretty much sums up what I and other like-minded progressives have being saying since May 2.
You don’t like the fact that Harper thumbs his nose at Canadian voters in Newfoundland, Quebec who gave the boot to Smith, Manning and Verner? You don’t like what Clement is saying about program cuts after his boss emphatically stated during the election campaign that cuts to the PS would be achieved through attrition? Well:
You get what you pay for, folks. You get the government you vote for. Suck it up.
Gonna be a long four years. But, at the end of it, Harper will be gone and the Cons will be decimated. Canadians had a brain-fart this time. But they will have had a strong dose of antacid by the time 2015 rolls around.
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