I take it back, this week American politics are not way more interesting than Canadian ones! Our federal election 7 weeks ago was pretty dull, especially with the fascinating goings on south of the border. The Conservatives, led by Steven Harper, who were already in power with a minority government, won again. Still only a minority, but a larger one this time.
Now, only 7 weeks into the term, the government may be brought down by a non-confidence vote. Hard to believe isn’t it? Two things have set the other parties against Harper and his right-wing crew: Firstly, no significant plan for spending to stimulate the recessed economy (yes they finally admitted we’re also in a recession). Admittedly it is controversial whether to spend, how much to spend, and most importantly, what to spend it on, that’s true.
But what really p–ed off the opposition parties was that the Harper government reversed a law that gave each party $1+ for every vote they received. It doesn’t sound like much money, but when you add it up it is. It actually makes up about 2/3 of the revenue of the opposition parties, but much less for the ruling Conservative party.
So the 3 opposition parties are out for blood, and have made an agreement to form a coalition group, and to ask the Governor General to dissolve the Conservative government and appoint this very disparate coalition group as the governement of Canada.
Pretty cool huh? Maybe good things will actually get done for a change if this happens, because they’ll all be compelled to co-operate, rather than act as from an adversarial position as they usually do.
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Canadian politics…not so boring anymore
I take it back, this week American politics are not way more interesting than Canadian ones! Our federal election 7 weeks ago was pretty dull, especially with the fascinating goings on south of the border. The Conservatives, led by Steven Harper, who were already in power with a minority government, won again. Still only a minority, but a larger one this time.
Now, only 7 weeks into the term, the government may be brought down by a non-confidence vote. Hard to believe isn’t it? Two things have set the other parties against Harper and his right-wing crew: Firstly, no significant plan for spending to stimulate the recessed economy (yes they finally admitted we’re also in a recession). Admittedly it is controversial whether to spend, how much to spend, and most importantly, what to spend it on, that’s true.
But what really p–ed off the opposition parties was that the Harper government reversed a law that gave each party $1+ for every vote they received. It doesn’t sound like much money, but when you add it up it is. It actually makes up about 2/3 of the revenue of the opposition parties, but much less for the ruling Conservative party.
So the 3 opposition parties are out for blood, and have made an agreement to form a coalition group, and to ask the Governor General to dissolve the Conservative government and appoint this very disparate coalition group as the governement of Canada.
Pretty cool huh? Maybe good things will actually get done for a change if this happens, because they’ll all be compelled to co-operate, rather than act as from an adversarial position as they usually do.