Odd that, especially as we are the Official Opposition and have a broad based membership across the Country. The Canada @ 150 meetings are continuing through the summer -- Ontario in the next couple of weeks. We'll have a fully costed policy platform for the fall in plenty of time for the next plausible election date.
The Liberal Party isn't going away any time soon.
So why the media uproar? Well, Canadian news is a bit slow (I wish I could say that for international news). And it's hard to be the opposition in a minority -- compromise is a continuing necessity -- and choosing the "hill to die on" is a dispiriting thing.
But the fact is and remains the Liberal Party is the viable alternative to the CPC and we reflect the broad middle that is Canada -- from blue to red Liberals.
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Jim Travers in the Star wrote an article that was not very pleasant for Mr. Ignatieff. Bloggers are talking about leadership, again. I think it was not right for Ignatieff to say he would vote for Kenney's bill on immigration but then the caucus screamed and now he has decided not to vote for it...huh?
Too bad most other Canadians don't get that.
Many of whom either whine about "Harper lite" or the butt of Con jokes of the worst kind that Jane and Joe at Timmy Hortons are swallowing hook, line and sinker.
Fall is in a short time from now. Time is a luxury we don't have.
Unless you know something the rest of us don't, Harper can well get his majority this fall...and we'll never be rid of him, as the first thing he will do is cut off that 1.95$/vote subsidy.
As for polls today, never can be trusted entirely and even if we did trust polls, Harper has a propensity for bouncing back and in short order. Teflon Steve.
I realize now that Coalition or bring Chretien back are just quick fixes that will backfire in short order as well. But, something has to give here.
What I'm not getting is a few big ticket items on Steve's attack ads can't be counteracted?
Steve blows on about coalition, well, how come the liberals don't hit Harper and Layton over the head with their potential for coalition of some kind. The letter of 2004 to bring down Martin was certainly indication of that willingness.
The other thing is Steve is touting himself the hero of the economy in Canada today. It's largely in part thanks to Paul Martin. How come Liberals don't bring that up to answer the Harpercons? Yes, I realize Martin isn't that well liked in the party but it is time for the party to put their differences aside and work together on how best to counter act Steve's attack ad war machines.
Lastly, is there any way they can escape out from under ADSCAM? Iggy wasn't even in the country when the sponsorship scandal took place, yet Conservatives and their cheerleaders are determined to keep it alive and well and to make Iggy own it.
Sky is falling because the LPC is letting others define them.
Policy planks Ignatieff.
Moral compass please.
Not being the conservatives isn't good enough!
Iggy has turned out to be even worse than the hapless Dion, now that takes some doing.
re: The Liberal Party isn't going away any time soon:
maybe not, but at this rate, it's not going anywhere, in the foreseeable term, either; and as Kinsella pts. out, it's likely that it will lose the voter subsidy after the next election, so -- and this was why there was almost a first coalition -- that could effectively kill it off in the longer term, if you old guard keep on this business as usual, see/speak/do no evil pace, no?
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Not being the conservatives isn't good enough!
Why not? Given how terrifying Steve is, along with his evangelicals and the likes of Charles McVety pullling major strings, it should be.
Why are our expectations so high anyway?
We want Iggy to vote against Harpercon on some issue as to trigger an election as we know full well the numbers favour another Harpercon win; perhaps and more likely, a Harpercon majority. Now if you're conservative, then yes, I certainly understand why you would want Iggy to throw down the gauntlet, to be rid of pesky things like opposition parties.
But those who are center/left of center? I'm not getting that.
We keep ridiculing him; he's too Ameicanized, too ugly, too intellectual, too harperlite (ironic given that many 'progressives' when they say things like that leave the impressin they prefer Full blown Harper over Harperlite; don't get the logic behind that rationale at all)
We practically want Iggy to charge in like some white knight, throw daggers at Harper, jump through flaming hoops and get a make-over oh yeah! And reform parliament with Steve still running the theatre and anything short of all that, Iggy just doesn't deserve our support.
If Steve gets his majority, we'll be referring to today that we were lamenting about as the good ol' days.
Even the NDP is shifting center and after their latest with the gun control, they're proving to be more and more friendly to Harper.
We should stop having high expectations and really make the choice; who is the lesser of the two evils? "harperlite" or the real "harper"?
Another blogger once said if we no longer showed respect or support for the opposition, they too will go away.
Jimbo, the "Liberal party isn't going away" as you quite correctly suggest. It merely needs to return to its roots, its traditional values. Today's Liberal Party really isn't worth saving. The Canadian public have said as much, again and again and again. Eventually you IgLibs are going to settle down and figure this out.
Even though I am not generally a Liberal supporter I still that they are much closer to the general values and principle of most Canadians. The Liberals aren't having trouble coming back from their sponsorship days because Canadian values have changed, they are having trouble because they have apparently forgotten what it means to be a political party. Create a serious platform is perceived to be a change in the corrupted political culture of the country and, given how fed up most Canadians are with the bullying, corruption of this present government, the Liberals could be back in no time. But it is like they don't want to do anything but sit around and wait until the Conservative self destruct.
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