The recent narrative of the Liberal Party's furor over in and out-gate is now rallying around their allegation that the Tories "stole" the 2006 election. Paul Martin is not to blame for the loss, the Tories simply bought the election with fraud. This allows them to justify their loss by some alleged criminal activity rather than their own futility. Whatever helps you guys sleep at night. It is similar to how they claim that Iggy is not unpopular because he's a douche, but rather because of clever Tory attack ads. The Liberals seek narratives that absolve them of personal responsibility for their futility.
Are they alleging that they only lost because of "in and out" fraud by the Tories in 2006? After learning how Elections Canada interpreted the law, the practice was stopped in 2008. What happened? Did the Liberals storm back into power? Not exactly, the Tories won a larger minority. They stopped "in and out" transfers, and won more seats.
Winning...
The Liberals have yet to acknowledge they LOST both elections. The Canadian electorate could not possibly have rejected their party, they think.
ReplyDeleteThe reality is that the Liberal Party went from 172 seats in 2000 down to 135 seats in 2004. That's a loss of 37 seats.
Then in 2006, the Liberals lost another 32 seats, going down to 103.
In 2008, the Liberals lost again -- 26 more seats.
The Liberal Party has been on a losing streak. Time they owned up to it, regrouped, and live to fight another day -- hopefully by 2030!
-- Gabby in QC
I think the sooner the Liberals can embrace that they lost the election and that Canadians seem to be moving away from the party because of their lack of content rather then because of some grand conspiracy it may very well be the first step in them heading in the right direction.
ReplyDeleteI'm sick and tired of the C.B.C and C.T.V I just spent the last 30 minutes listening to power and politics what a joke! they are complaining about everything.It all most seems the big babies (Libby Davis is big) think the sky is falling because of all this trivial stuff that's happening.This trivial stuff there complaining about happens all the time in Parliament. but now the media because of a pending election is joining the BS. Please hurry up Sun news,and those cable providers better anti up soon.
ReplyDeleteHey, that's the way it is. A Liberal's screwups, misdeeds and shortcomings are ALWAYS someone else's fault.
ReplyDeleteNO QUARTER
Mike D, I'm watching Power & Politics too, but I'm getting some chuckles out of it because:
ReplyDelete• I now know why Terry Milewski almost always wears an overcoat when he does reports -- to camouflage his portliness.
• I saw Scott Brison bristle at being reminded about the email he sent out re: the income trust decision back in 2005. Yeah, OK, he was eventually cleared, but he DID send out the email, which ended with the significant "I think you will be happier very soon ... this week probably" Scotty was not beaming during P&P.
• It proves to me once again that Evan Solomon can't control the panels, power or not, which he supposedly moderates, allowing as he does participants to talk over one another and make unfounded accusations. Who understands what they're saying? So, who cares?
• It confirms how fixated on an election journalists and pundits are. I'm beginning to suspect they suffer from a different kind of dysfunction, one which begins with e______n and ends with n.
-- Gabby in QC
The only Canadian election stolen occurred in 1997, where the Liberals led by Jean Chretien won a bare majority with 155 seats. That '97 election was when Adscam funds were being distributed to campaigns in Quebec by the Liberals, who had cash flow problems and could only run the campaign with misappropriated funds.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to say exactly how many seats were affected in that election, but we learned during the Gomery inquiry that Adscam funds were used for van rentals, office supplies, and one would imagine campaign advertising.
Most of the Adscam money used during the campaign wasn't even listed on expense declarations made to Elections Canada, yet EC chose not to investigate and pursue charges, despite the fact they would have still been legally able due to the fact crimes were committed which extended the timeframe they could investigate and lay charges.
I guess they stopped blaming the NDP now eh?
ReplyDeleteLiberano$ are so intitled to their entitlements, they can't face this one tiny fact. Canadians don't want lying ,thiefs in Govt anymore.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the CPC should say the election wasn't fair because of ABC campaigning by Danny Williams...they won but it could of been a majority. Panic stricken coalition of losers and media.
I here the speaker the Liberal that he is ruled against the tories to. 2 I see. I wonder what the polls show for the conservatives I hope there high enough to to get a majority so we can clean up EC.and the News media.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of the people the CBC/CTV and media are cheerleading to get into govt.if anyone REALLY cares, look at the Coalition denying 12 witnesses to appear in the kangaroo court on the In & Out...(spread this around to friends because the media are hiding this)...
ReplyDeletehttp://climbingoutofthedark.blogspot.com/2011/03/opposition-and-msm-going-back-in-time.html
I only ever watched P&P during the commercial breaks of the Michael Coren show. Since Coren has recently moved to 11PM, I don't think I'll ever bother to watch P&P again. I wonder if others feel the same.
ReplyDeleteWhy did Elections Canada rewrite the rules after the 2006 election then try to apply them retroactively to only the Conservatives?
ReplyDeleteMore than a touch of bias;
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=b92b618d-d777-4539-b553-c34b3a5b0376&p=1
The LPC stole the 2004 election,
ReplyDeletewith $40 million in stolen taxpayer money.
Tories patting each other the asses here. Is this what you do when you defraud and launder money?
ReplyDeletehaha that really worked out well for old AlGore.
ReplyDeleteHey anon we're going to pat your asses too, with steel-toed boots!
Speaking of defrauding and laundering, Anony....could you find out where the $40 mil is - you know that little "scandal" that elections canada decided NOT to investigate????
ReplyDeletespeaking of stealing elections.....you guys take the cake on that one.
Nice try though...
Obviously there wasn't a crime committed.
ReplyDeleteAs for cake, get ready to put at least 4 files in the cakes you send to the tories who're going to end up doing jail time.