Liberal NDP Coalition Government
Apollo @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:37 am
mixedfarmer mixedfarmer:
good thing about elections in canada , it is a secret ballet
Pssst.... mixed farmer. Unless your real name is mixed farmer, your vote will still be secret.
EyeBrock @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:40 am
mixedfarmer mixedfarmer:
good thing about elections in canada , it is a secret ballet
What a cop out. You post all your partisan crap on here but won't stand up for your supposed convictions.
Your either too young to vote (which would explain your infantile posts) or you were too lazy to vote as it's obvious you didn't vote.
HyperionTheEvil @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:08 pm
Canadaka Canadaka:
They are talking on Mike Duffy Live about IF the conservatives win this election, which they most likely will, that some people are suggesting the Liberals and NDP should form a Coalition and take down the goverment on the first confidence motion. Then go to the Govenor General and ask her to sweear in a Liberal NDP Coalition Government.
They also make the point that since Dion's job will most likely be on the line and that layton has had numerous trys and the NDP hasn't moved much, they might have reasons to do this for self preservation reasons as well.
Being a fairly left-wing Liberal I would personaly support this and is pretty much the only way the NDP will ever get a cabinet minister. But i think the chance of this happening are probably below 10%.
But without some sort of merger or Coalition in the future, with the emergance of the greens and the bloc not going away, I don't see how any party will be able to get a majority anytime in the forseable future, so a Coalition might be the only way to form a stable government.
This is not without president and is within the realm os the possible. I think its happened 2 times in Canada's history and I think has happened for Provincial goverments.
They also make the point that since Dion's job will most likely be on the line and that layton has had numerous trys and the NDP hasn't moved much, they might have reasons to do this for self preservation reasons as well.
Being a fairly left-wing Liberal I would personaly support this and is pretty much the only way the NDP will ever get a cabinet minister. But i think the chance of this happening are probably below 10%.
But without some sort of merger or Coalition in the future, with the emergance of the greens and the bloc not going away, I don't see how any party will be able to get a majority anytime in the forseable future, so a Coalition might be the only way to form a stable government.
This is not without president and is within the realm os the possible. I think its happened 2 times in Canada's history and I think has happened for Provincial goverments.
Sorry there maybe have been precedent decades ago but that has no bearing on the present. Canadians voted and they voted for more conservatives that anyone else. If the left wants to run the country bad enough they can hoin parties pick a leader , topple the goverment and take thier chances
romanP @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:47 pm
Canadaka Canadaka:
They are talking on Mike Duffy Live about IF the conservatives win this election, which they most likely will, that some people are suggesting the Liberals and NDP should form a Coalition and take down the goverment on the first confidence motion. Then go to the Govenor General and ask her to sweear in a Liberal NDP Coalition Government.
They also make the point that since Dion's job will most likely be on the line and that layton has had numerous trys and the NDP hasn't moved much, they might have reasons to do this for self preservation reasons as well.
Being a fairly left-wing Liberal I would personaly support this and is pretty much the only way the NDP will ever get a cabinet minister. But i think the chance of this happening are probably below 10%.
They also make the point that since Dion's job will most likely be on the line and that layton has had numerous trys and the NDP hasn't moved much, they might have reasons to do this for self preservation reasons as well.
Being a fairly left-wing Liberal I would personaly support this and is pretty much the only way the NDP will ever get a cabinet minister. But i think the chance of this happening are probably below 10%.
Even if I don't particularly like the taste of a Liberal or NDP government, I would support this. I think it is time that we opened the door to a Parliamentary system more like Germany's, which seems far more democratic than what we have.
EyeBrock @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:49 pm
It's like you are all on the same page!
Wow, all the LOSERS want to change how we vote. What a strange coincidence!
RUEZ @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:51 pm
tritium tritium:
Actually I am more of a Ralph Klein fan, and still have personal letters from him 
Love letters?
romanP @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:52 pm
RUEZ RUEZ:
If the Canadian public felt that either Dion or Layton were fit to govern they would be voting more for them then the Conservatives.
People have to vote at all in the first place. This election had a very low turnout, and the results you see today would probably be quite the opposite if more people voted. Instead, we have the easily fooled tools that vote Conservative for no good reason I can discern, and the scared old people who vote Conservative because they're scared and old and want it to be 1952 again.
RUEZ @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:52 pm
EyeBrock EyeBrock:
It's like you are all on the same page!
Wow, all the LOSERS want to change how we vote. What a strange coincidence!
Wow, all the LOSERS want to change how we vote. What a strange coincidence!
Yup, not a word for 12 years of Liberal governments and all of a sudden the system is broken.
romanP @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:54 pm
Canadaka Canadaka:
Unless Harper can learn to work with the other parties in parliament more so than he did this last parliament.
I wouldn't bet on it. His complaint was that Parliament was dysfunctional. What he forgot to mention is that his party literally wrote the book on how to make Parliament dysfunctional. Everything comes up sour grapes in Stephen Harper's world.
RUEZ @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:56 pm
romanP romanP:
RUEZ RUEZ:
If the Canadian public felt that either Dion or Layton were fit to govern they would be voting more for them then the Conservatives.
People have to vote at all in the first place. This election had a very low turnout, and the results you see today would probably be quite the opposite if more people voted. Instead, we have the easily fooled tools that vote Conservative for no good reason I can discern, and the scared old people who vote Conservative because they're scared and old and want it to be 1952 again.
What evidence do you have that those that didn't vote would have voted for someone other then the Conservatives? All your petty name calling is making you look like a little crybaby.
EyeBrock @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:56 pm
romanP romanP:
RUEZ RUEZ:
If the Canadian public felt that either Dion or Layton were fit to govern they would be voting more for them then the Conservatives.
People have to vote at all in the first place. This election had a very low turnout, and the results you see today would probably be quite the opposite if more people voted. Instead, we have the easily fooled tools that vote Conservative for no good reason I can discern, and the scared old people who vote Conservative because they're scared and old and want it to be 1952 again.
Or maybe they voted Tory because they don't agree with the Liberals or the NDP.
It's no different to Chretien winning with 38% of the vote when the right-of-centre vote was split between reform and the PC's.
Sour grapes roman. Kettle and pan and all that.
Toro @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:07 pm
romanP romanP:
People have to vote at all in the first place. This election had a very low turnout, and the results you see today would probably be quite the opposite if more people voted.
This is incorrect.
A typical poll is representative of the population within 3% of the estimate 95% of the time. A poll has 1000 people.
13.5 million people voted. Out of a population of 33 million, a sample of 13.5 million is statistically accurate to virtually 100%.
romanP @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:20 pm
Chumley Chumley:
Canadaka Canadaka:
The Bloc held the balance of power in this last government as well.
Can someone explain to me why the Bloc is a federal party?
Because we live in a democracy.
EyeBrock @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:39 pm
Unlike Zimbabwe. You from there Roman? Or are you just trying to be cool by having a repressive african regime's flag on your name?
romanP @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:18 pm
EyeBrock EyeBrock:
It's like you are all on the same page!
Wow, all the LOSERS want to change how we vote. What a strange coincidence!
Wow, all the LOSERS want to change how we vote. What a strange coincidence!
Politics isn't about winning, it's about playing the game. Those who just want to win should pick up a hockey stick or a football instead.