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Hi Everyone. I trust you're here and paying attention. Narff!
At any rate. Seems the Great White North (you know, where Terence and Philip live) is having an interesting election. :/
Why would it be interesting, you'd say? And I'd say damned good question!
The answer would not be what you've been led to believe. The answer is that it is sea change election. Not a sea change about the ruling Tories, but between the Liberals and NDP. Coles notes for non-Canadians, the NDP are the holdovers from the Bolsheviks of the 20s (extremely recent evidence, opposition to international trade), the Liberals are the ones who ruled Canada for much of a century by convincing people only they stood between rule from Stalin on the left or the Pope and the Arch Bishop of Canterbury on the right (evidence, election results from Borden to Harper).
All that's been tossed.
Now we have the NDP running on a balanced budget and the Liberals promising to run up deficits. How the world turns.
The rub is, the Liberal Party of Canada can in no way, shape or form allow an NDP government to pass a Throne Speech (that's how we roll up here, we make Speeches from the Throne, other subjects of the Crown will be familiar). If they allow an NDP government to breath for even a millisecond they will be destroyed. Their reason for existence (remember, standing between Stalin and Pope Hitler) will be undone. People might just say, this isn't so bad.
So, you read it here first ladies and germs, Conservative minority government with the Liberals failing to show up for any confidence votes in order to prop up Harper for at least 2 years while they figure out how to give the NDP the knife.
This has been your election night in advance, you're welcome.
At any rate. Seems the Great White North (you know, where Terence and Philip live) is having an interesting election. :/
Why would it be interesting, you'd say? And I'd say damned good question!
The answer would not be what you've been led to believe. The answer is that it is sea change election. Not a sea change about the ruling Tories, but between the Liberals and NDP. Coles notes for non-Canadians, the NDP are the holdovers from the Bolsheviks of the 20s (extremely recent evidence, opposition to international trade), the Liberals are the ones who ruled Canada for much of a century by convincing people only they stood between rule from Stalin on the left or the Pope and the Arch Bishop of Canterbury on the right (evidence, election results from Borden to Harper).
All that's been tossed.
Now we have the NDP running on a balanced budget and the Liberals promising to run up deficits. How the world turns.
The rub is, the Liberal Party of Canada can in no way, shape or form allow an NDP government to pass a Throne Speech (that's how we roll up here, we make Speeches from the Throne, other subjects of the Crown will be familiar). If they allow an NDP government to breath for even a millisecond they will be destroyed. Their reason for existence (remember, standing between Stalin and Pope Hitler) will be undone. People might just say, this isn't so bad.
So, you read it here first ladies and germs, Conservative minority government with the Liberals failing to show up for any confidence votes in order to prop up Harper for at least 2 years while they figure out how to give the NDP the knife.
This has been your election night in advance, you're welcome.
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