... before parliament returns from its 53 day hiatus - after sitting for only 12 days following Steve's October surprise election - due to what the NYTimes headline referred to as :
"Canadian leader shuts Parliament in bid to keep power"
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How's that coalition slagging going, by the way? Just the last couple of days worth :
Calgary Herald : Coalition power play no longer makes sense to grits
NaPo : The coalition is dead.
Guelph Mercury : Ignatieff should denounce coalition
NaPo again : Time to put coalition corpse to rest
Oh, sorry, scratch that last one. Wrong coalition - that one's from our coalition with the US in Afghanistan
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First prize, for the best gratuitous reference to Obama in the cause of slagging the coalition, goes to Don Martin in NaPo :
"President Barack Obama is right. It's time to set aside childish things.
Specifically for Canada, that means an end to that coalition..."
NaPo also snags second prize for "The opposition does not care about Canada" , a compendium of reader's comments - half of which blame the media for promoting the coaliton!
And so it goes ...
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With thanks to April Reign for the coalition logo
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9 comments:
Looking good, Alison!
That quote from Don Martin -- ROTFL. Man -- people get paid for that?
But may I ask: Parliament? What is this thing you call Parliament? I think I have a vague memory, maybe from last June, but I'm having trouble remembering much of them at all.
Slaggrrrs!
Steve's proroguey time has ended. Now, let's see how far Iggy bends over...
Love the spacious look, Alison!
Thanks! It was either this or a haircut. I never shifted over from old blogger and eventually the broken links and missing comments were just too annoying.
Very much doubt the coalition is go this time but the idea will gradually gain ground with people over time as the only way to have a functioning democratic government.
I would ignore the airheads who see the coalition as undemocratic and just do it.
Let 'em seethe. We've seen from 25 years of neo-liberalism that bitching and moaning is as far as most Canadians will ever go.
Iceland President asks leftist leader to lead coalition government of greens and social democrats following country's economic meltdown.
Tuttle
Tuttle : She will also be the first openly gay prime minister in the world.
Hey, Alison: hurry back to the globalization thread at BnR with that news, or I will continue to cannibalize this post. *wink*
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