Green lights for Elizabeth May! She is the election debates. YES!!!!
The forces of evil (Harper and Layton) have been vanquished…or at least they are humbled and brought to heel...by the power of engaged and enraged citizenship. Good start Canada. Now keep it up for the rest of this unnecessary and expensive election.
This is what can happen when citizens take back the power from the politicians and the patricians. This election is not the private property of the politicians and the political parties. Elections are about citizens deciding what is important going forward and who they dare trust to move us forward in the best way possible.
Good start Canada. Now keep up the good work and let Harper know we don’t buy his phony excuses about why we are paying $400,000,000 for an unnecessary election. It is not appropriate for him to screw us around just because he wants majority and has his heart set on breaking and bankrupting the Liberals...just for his personal political and power hungry purposes...and the hell with democracy.
Tell Duceppe he was right to move off the national stage as he thought to do earlier this term. The option open to him now is not the leadership of the Quebec PQ but to get off the national political stage entirely - and preferably PDQ!
Tell Layton to quit worrying if May is eating his political lunch – she is! Deal with it like a statesman not an henchman. If Layton is so delusional that he thinks we will buy his pretense that he is the Canadian Obama, he doesn’t know Jack…but we Canadians do! Give him a reality check.
Stephane – you need to start getting busier and bolder about explaining what will be the dire consequences to Canada if Harper get to have his way with us...not just a majority government...if any kind of Harper government.
Thoughtful progressive Canadians can't afford to abdicate our responsibility for active political engagement. It is our duty and our obligations to define OUR sense of democracy and not delegate it to Harper.
Cynicism is not an option – unless you want Harper to take over everything and control all of us like he does his caucus. Harper will end up ruling over us like a mini-me combination of George Bush and the Dick known as Cheney.
BTW:
Observation on the stupidest media question the campaign so far…to Steve Harper about what kind of vegetable he would be…if he were one! Most telling political answer given in the campaign so far! Harper’s reply to the stupidest question! He would rather be a fruit…! He is right. He would not be sweet and colourful as he aspires and alleges. He is a fruit, a prickly pear…pure and simple...but without appeal. (sic).
I'm appalled she is allowed. The rule is simple - you need an elected MP to participate. This was the case for the Bloc, Reform, and provincially the Wild Alliance. Now watch all the fringe parties come in and the debate lose all relevancy, much like this blog.
ReplyDeleteThe Greens has a sitting MP in the former Liberal who went Independent and then joined the Greens.
ReplyDeleteYour objection has been met. The Greens should be in the debates and the Conservatives should be out of power.
I can't wait to see Harper dance around trying to justify his ineptitude on the climate change file. He is still a denier who has moved to political correctness as a compromise position.
I think the whole idea of having an elected MP rule for the Televised debate is ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteIt is important to take a look at a party's current status in terms of a broad spectrum of indicators, such as:
1. Popular support in previous elections;
2. Nationally funded election campaign;
3. Candidates running in more than 90% of ridings;
4. Evidence of a comprehensive election platform (could be based on a review of the party's literature - but not based on the opinions of the other parties...this is subjective, so should be loosely defined, but still able to sort single-issue parties from parties that intend to actually govern).
Good luck to Elizabeth May and her Greens. I think they don't have the experience to form a government yet, but I sure hope they get the experience to work in Parliament! Given our choice, it might just be better to have a party will less experience in power, than one with all too much (and therefore able to use our country to their own advantage).
An elected MP should be someone who actualy ran under the Green umbrella during the election. Not someone chnaged his mind after the election. Under this logic, if the pot party leader can get someone stoned enough to switch parties he can then enter the leaders debate. Give me a break.
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Check your logic - point being is the Greens don't have an elected MP.
ReplyDeleteShame on all the leaders for letting this fringe leader in the debates.