Thursday, October 7, 2010

Bloc--NDP: He Said He Said

Well it would appear that the coalition partners have different narratives about how their unholy union came to pass. There is the NDP version, and the Bloc version; where the Dippers are now calling Gilles Duceppe a liar. You have the Dipper claiming that they were going to roll with the NDP platform, and Duceppe claiming his would become coalition policy. Will this war of words drive a wedge between the coalition founders? Maybe that's the whole point, hindsight being 20/20, the Dips and Libs realize that their union with the Bloc was toxic and they want to try and put some distance between them? But ultimately unless the Liberals and NDP can win enough seats to have a 2 party coalition, they are going to need the Bloc. Best play nice boys and girls...

8 comments:

  1. I wonder if the coalition partners have not met in a secret cave somewhere and with the media help, come up with this plan to diss each other to throw us off their plan to overthrow the govt, or form a coalition after the next election.
    When one looks back at the last campaign we should have known something was up when not one of the coalition members threw one glove or insult at any of them. And neither did the media. It was 4 against the PM all the way. And does anyone really believe the promise Dion made to retire, if he became PM. Liberals are not known for keeping promises.
    All we can hope for is their pretend attacks on each other drive their voters to our side.

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  2. MaryT, I agree with you that all this contradicting each other is just a ploy to throw the public off guard. The media is playing right along the way they're supposed to. Then claim that Conservatives desperate invoking fear and are seeing boogey men were none exist.

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  3. Coalition leader Michael Ignatieff will be in Edmonton tomorrow as will the PM. I wonder whose crowd will be bigger.

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  4. The coalition of losers had no fiscal plan, other than a 30 day consultation period,
    as I remember it.

    Then Iffy took the reins with his 'coalition if necessary' theatrics, and had a team (including Don Drummond) working on an alternate budget.

    ''...The Liberals are drawing up their own provisional budget in the event that opposition parties defeat the Conservatives over the Jan. 27 stimulus package and install their own coalition government.

    ...Mr. McCallum said his plan would run deficits -- as the Tories are planning -- to offer stimulus but would have a "credible track back to a balanced budget."

    OMG! The Liberal Alternate Budget would run a deficit.... HOW BIG?
    I would like to see that budget.

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/article966191.ece

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  5. Mary T, it is strange how LibDipBloc ranting about EI in QP came to an abrupt end,
    once Flaherty reminded the House that the Liberals 'stole' $54B from the EI fund and left the cupboard bare.

    A Union in Quebec took the Chretien Libs to court over the EI raid.
    Duceppe seems to have let the issue die.

    Is there a pact between the coalition parties?

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  6. you mean they are actually consorting in private to test the new GG (now and after the next election) ? - zounds, we must be paranoic - that they gang up in front of every microphone against the government, and drag the MSM with them - now it is pure heaven to watch the Bloc set the record straight

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  7. Given the chance to boot the government and install themselves instead the opposition would coagulate. All their differences would be put aside for the greater good. A socialist will hang himself for the greater good.

    As always the interesting question is what shadowy role the media is playing in all this. What would we find if the CBC's books were opened for all to see?

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  8. QP was boring and predictable.

    same same same

    Is Homecare within federal jurisdiction?

    The only Liblog comments on this new policy were 'it will paint the Cons as meanies if they attack it'.

    Wow, there's a stand motivated on principle, eh.

    6 back to back surplus', with majority govts,
    no Homecare.
    Why were Liberals so mean and uncaring from 1993-2005?

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