I found this fascinating Liberals responsible for the election war chest turned down a desperate plea for nearly $3 million for new advertising in the last week of the campaign because internal polls showed Canadians had rejected Michael Ignatieff and the party wanted to save a few bucks, QMI Agency has learned. A request for [...]
Liberal Party
What I learned
Local MPs performance don’t matter much : NDP’s Vegas candidate won, their English speaking candidate in a 98% francophone riding won, Ken Dryden and Lawrence Cannon lost. Never bring down a minority government when you are behind. Ignatieff thought it was because Canadians weren’t paying attention to him, in truth, we just didn’t like him [...]
The Campaigns in Saskatoon
I was looking for a list of nominated Saskatoon candidates for the federal election and I realized that none listed, even the Liberals don’t have a complete list of nominated candidates on their site (same thing happened under Stephane Dion) and while the NDP don’t have a list of their candidates anywhere. So after spending [...]
My political worldview
Economically (apparently I prefer deficits) and on defence spending I agree with the Conservatives but on Senate Reform, Quebec, and Moral Values, I am with the Liberals. It’s kind of a fun survey but I realized that locally I find myself politically at odds with four of the city councillors at the left end of [...]
Justin Trudeau’s political sacrifice
Angelo Persichilli’s Toronto Star column is a scathing attack on the leadership of Michael Ignatieff (and a shot at the political instincts of Justin Trudeau). What’s more, Pierre Trudeau was surrounded by skilled and intelligent individuals, like Mitchell Sharp, Marc Lalonde, Keith Davey, Jim Coutts, Dennis Mills, Patrick Gossage and others who had a lot [...]
Why being a politician is no fun
Great post by David Atkin And now we have Stephen Harper’s rock concert. For the last several weekends, the prime minister has been having some buddies over to his house to play a little music in the basement. They managed to put together a decent little five-song set and thought it would be fun to [...]
Preston Manning was right
According to Warren Kinsella anyways The second lesson of that historic night is this: As long as the Bloc Québecois exists – and as long as vote-rich Ontario remains split between Tories, Grits and New Democrats – no party will be able to win a majority in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Stephen Harper [...]
Meet Michael Ignatieff
I am not sure if these make a big difference (anyone remember the Stephen Harper sweater vest commercials) but this does show a picture of Michael Ignatieff that isn’t often shown in the media. I am actually a little surprised that other political leaders haven’t done similar videos. Unless I missed something it was one [...]
