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<strong>Title: </strong> <a href="/link.php?id=30379" target="_blank">Chretien advises Dion to trigger election: analyst</a> (click to view)

<strong>Category:</strong> <a href="/news/topic/1-political" target="_blank">Political</a>
<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=WDHIII" target="_blank">WDHIII</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-02-17 10:03:26
<strong>Canadian</strong>

   

Of course Ole Jean wants an election, he sees how low the Liberals have sunk and knows they need a new leader and an election loss is the only way to get rid of Dion.

Make no mistake my liberal friends, the LPC has no hope in hell of forming the next governement!!

I keep hearing how Harper has pissed off the Maritimes and Ontario, but like everyone else they know that Harper is a leader and has the guts to stand behind his decisions.

   

who knows why chretien made this recomendation to dion . not sure why chretien would want an election but many different reasons are possible .

and i wonder how ready the liberals really are for an election at this time ?

but if they want a fight they can have one and cpc will be much better prepared and is expecting an election so it won't exactly be a surprise .

   

got news for you stokes..M. Chretien is a big fan of M.Dion.. he supports him and I am sure is a good advisor... M. Chretien said the timing is right.. he is a seasoned and experienced parliamentarian. I think he knows his shit and he is right.. The liberals have shored up this government long enough.. its time to put up or shut up..

   

If the Liberals are LUCKY they'll form a minority government, if not they'll just slink back and find another faceless leader that doesn't measure up to Chrietien's legacy.

   

I think the mood of the country is changing and I dont really think that people are all that satisfied with the tories.. anyway it will remain to be seen. but I think Dion should shit or get off the pot as they say..

   

Unfortunately for the CPC the Libs don't need luck on their side. Despite all the perceived weakness of Dion, the Libs consistently poll either slightly above or below the CPC and never is the CPC is majority range.

Given that shouldn't Harper be worried about his position if he cannot sucessfully defeat a Liberal party in such a weakened position.

Isn't it also true that by not winning a majority in the next election it as good as a loss because they will be forced to accept budget, social, economical, and Afghan war positions of the other parties.

A minority CPC gov't can be viewed therefore as a loss as they will not be able to enact any legislation they want.

Who has more to fear?

   

Chretien. Definately a man Canadians can trust.
From the faiding dictators failing hands, the manilla envelope full of taxpayers money is thrown to the latest of the made men. Steeped and schooled in the lies and illusions of Bay street, he'll say whatever is needed to retake the crown.

As if 13 years of bullshit wasn't enough of a reminder.

   

yeah Dion should listen to that old goat, he can give him a couple of pointers on how to milk millions from taxpayers to give to his buddies or maybe show him how to spend 13 years in power and accomplish absolutely fucking nothing....

   

actually ridenrain.. chretien was one of the best PMs we have had.. next to Pierre of course and laurier,, Mckenzie King,, Louis St, Laurent.. I would put his ethics up against Mulroney any day... he ran this country well and we came out of a major deficit left by I am not a crook mulroney to a very large surplus... that the current PM et al are dwindling away to their cronies as we speak...

   

Conservatives Lying to Canadians about Liberal Spending Priorities: McCallum
February 17, 2008
OTTAWA – The Conservative attack on Liberal spending priorities is a big lie designed to distract from their total lack of a plan to address the impending economic slowdown, Liberal Finance Critic John McCallum said today.

“As a former Chief Economist for the Royal Bank of Canada, I am appalled at the shoddy costing, and more worryingly, at the dishonesty of the Conservative document released today, which they claim to be an accurate accounting of our spending commitments,” said Mr. McCallum.
Mr. McCallum was responding to a 67-page document released by the Conservatives that disingenuously claims that Liberal spending priorities would drive Canada into a deficit.

“This document is nothing more than a mish-mash of miscalculations, misrepresentation and misinformation designed to distract from the Conservative government’s laissez-faire approach to managing the Canadian economy.”

Mr. McCallum cited the following as examples of the dishonesty of the Conservative costing. They:

• describe the cost of the Liberal demand for corporate tax reductions as “unknown,” despite the fact that Conservatives actually included this measure in their Fall Economic and Fiscal Update;
• grossly over-estimate the cost of the 30-50 Plan to Reduce Poverty in Canada, claiming that the entire Plan would be paid for in the first year, and not over 5 years, as was actually committed; and
• double-count the Liberal commitment to invest $1 billion in manufacturing jobs and technologies, claiming we will both create the Advanced Manufacturing Prosperity Fund and match the Ontario government’s manufacturing fund.

“If this counts as valid financial analysis for the Conservatives, Canadians are right to be worried about their ability to manage our country’s finances,” said Mr. McCallum.

Mr. McCallum underscored the fact that Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion has repeatedly made clear that a new Liberal government’s number one fiscal priority would to keep Canada’s books balanced.

“A new Liberal government would continue the sound fiscal management that Canadians have come to expect from us, after the previous Liberal government delivered the longest string of surpluses since Confederation,” he said.

Mr. McCallum pointed out the Liberal fiscal record is in stark contrast to the record of current Conservative Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who was a Finance Minister in the Mike Harris Conservative regime that left Ontario with a $5-billion deficit.

He pointed to Mr. Flaherty’s two years of incompetence as the federal Finance Minister, citing a devastating broken promise on income trusts and damaging policy flip flop on interest deductibility. He also noted that Industry Minister Jim Prentice had to introduce the document, because Mr. Flaherty’s credibility is in tatters following his admission that he violated Treasury Board rules by providing a $122,000 un-tendered contract to a long-time Conservative crony.

Mr. McCallum said instead of fabricating and misrepresenting Liberal priorities designed to meet the needs of Canadians and secure Canada’s economic performance, the Conservatives should start worrying about the mess in which Mr. Flaherty’s laissez-faire economic stewardship has left Canada’s economy.

“After two years of Conservative government, manufacturing sales have plummeted to a three-year low and Canada’s trade surplus has shrunk to its lowest levels in nearly a decade,” said Mr. McCallum.

“The Harper government inherited the strongest economy and most robust fiscal situation of any G-7 country, and it squandered Canada’s economic good fortune in just two years, spending the cupboard bare. And the best they can do is start a campaign of lies designed to discredit the stellar economic and fiscal record of the Liberal Party.”

   

have you ever experienced a doubling of your vision, confusion, or a numbness centered on side of your body?

   

chretien was a horrible pm , he only won majorities cause the conservative vote was split and ndp was very weak at the time . if not for those factors he never would of won such large majorites .


only the most partisan liberal would think he was a great PM .

   

bullshit ryan... get off what ever it is you are smoking...

   

..... looks like its not to hard to meet your standards for good prime ministers, they can just sit on their assess for 13 years over tax people, then use the surplus to bring down the deficit and call that good governing ?

   

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