Power politics?
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Set aside for a moment the prime minister’s combativeness. That isn’t in the national interest.
Disregard the lack of focus and the absence of policy that the leader of the opposition, in his Olympian detachment, projects.
There were times that the Liberal party and the Conservative had principles. There was even a time when it was reasonable for Canadian voters to worry whether the Conservative party had a secret agenda, which it would implement when it came to power.
It is in power now, and it is no secret that it has no agenda. In fact, it has no more idea what it is doing than the Liberal party or the NDP. The only principle it works by is that it wants to remain in power.
As governments go, that is not a bad principle. The problem is that, in the current circumstances, it is a particularly expensive one for the Canadian taxpayer and probably a disastrous one.
The current government has committed itself to a spending regime in order to buy Canada out of a recession. It has only spent about half of the committed money, but, according to the Bank of Canada, the country is already heading out of recession. The remaining money will not take Canada out of recession; it will take us into inflation. Canada’s parties are threatening an election. An election would prove a disaster for Canada. When was the last time that an election did not result in more government spending?
What Canada needs is a new Grand Coalition in the German model. Not a Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition, but a Conservative/Liberal coalition. You tell me what particularly separates the Liberals and the Conservatives in terms of policies, and then I’ll be persuaded why my idea is a silly one.
Disregard the lack of focus and the absence of policy that the leader of the opposition, in his Olympian detachment, projects.
There were times that the Liberal party and the Conservative had principles. There was even a time when it was reasonable for Canadian voters to worry whether the Conservative party had a secret agenda, which it would implement when it came to power.
It is in power now, and it is no secret that it has no agenda. In fact, it has no more idea what it is doing than the Liberal party or the NDP. The only principle it works by is that it wants to remain in power.
As governments go, that is not a bad principle. The problem is that, in the current circumstances, it is a particularly expensive one for the Canadian taxpayer and probably a disastrous one.
The current government has committed itself to a spending regime in order to buy Canada out of a recession. It has only spent about half of the committed money, but, according to the Bank of Canada, the country is already heading out of recession. The remaining money will not take Canada out of recession; it will take us into inflation. Canada’s parties are threatening an election. An election would prove a disaster for Canada. When was the last time that an election did not result in more government spending?
What Canada needs is a new Grand Coalition in the German model. Not a Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition, but a Conservative/Liberal coalition. You tell me what particularly separates the Liberals and the Conservatives in terms of policies, and then I’ll be persuaded why my idea is a silly one.
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