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Federal election thread

Posted 23 Jan, 2006 at 22:04 by matt in /World | Permanent link

As of this writing, it's looking like the Conservatives have a small plurality in the federal election, and hence we'll have a new minority government. This is not one of my preferred outcomes -- I don't like the Conservatives in their current incarnation, and distrust a lot of the ideas they've been tossing about -- but it could have been a lot worse.

What happens now? Presumably the Conservatives aren't going to form a coalition with the Liberals; the NDPs, even if they could get along, aren't large enough to take a majority; so if the Conservatives are going to make a formal coalition, it's got to be with the Bloc. That seems unlikely, both because the Conservatives had a stronger showing in Quebec than expected -- and hence represent a real competition to the BQ -- and because of the rhetoric that Harper was tossing around back in December. The theory, then, is that the Conservatives will try to get support on an issue-by-issue basis, trusting that the other parties won't want to rock the boat and plunge Canada into another election anytime soon.

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Stephen Harper scares me.
Posted 2006/1/24 13:28:37 by Wendy
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It's spring time for Harper in Calgary!
Winter for Martin's red Grits!...

Still workin' on the rest of that.

Only 1 'R' in Alberta.
Posted 2006/1/27 10:33:06 by Kael
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