The Conservative Party of Canada, or as I like to call it, the Conservative Party wahahahahaaa-yeahright, has handed the Liberals their ticket to ride.
Good thing the Conservatives’ “let’s stick with just being fiscal conservatives” and “let’s forget about social conservatives and our social foundations—and all them other head-scratcher conservative ideas” plan is working out so well for the Conservative Party. This “Be JUST like the Liberals, and forget all our ideals!” thing just might pan out! Vote Liberal! Or Liberal Two! Who cares?! As long as someone gets into power so we can give them half our money! And then they can continue to tell us what we can watch on TV! A chicken in every pot! More free abortions for all! Gay marriage! State-run everything!
Jane Tabor, the senior political writer at the Globe and Mail, which given the apparent shift in political spectrum in Canada from left to more left, you’ll see as either a “lefty” paper or a “righty” paper in Canada based on whether you’re a full-out Marxist or not, lays out the plans for us as she sees them.
PM’s aides plot tax cut, then election
OTTAWA—Senior officials are plotting a long-term strategy that will see Paul Martin’s government focus on a narrow agenda over the next year, deliver a tax-cut budget in the spring of 2006 and then call an election on it.
The Prime Minister will attempt to concentrate on governing in just three major areas—the economy, the environment and global issues, according to a senior government source.
This new and focused approach would attempt to answer critics who have called Mr. Martin indecisive and labelled him “Mr. Dithers.” It would allow him to deliver in the three areas, “global, green and the economy . . . where he is comfortable and Canadians are comfortable with him,” the source said.
Liberals believe Finance Minister Ralph Goodale’s budget, and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper’s support of it, have bought them a full year of governing.
This would give them time to craft a tax-cut budget that could help them win a majority at the polls in the spring of 2006, according to a senior Liberal.
Since winning a minority government in last June’s election, Mr. Martin has faced criticism for seeming to jump from file to file and failing to set priorities.
The opposition has been calling him a ditherer since a stinging article appeared in The Economist magazine entitled: “Mr. Dithers and his Distracting Fiscal Cafeteria.”
But government officials were thrilled with Mr. Harper’s immediate reaction to the budget, committing his Tories to supporting it.
“Let me just declare there’s nothing in this budget that would justify an election at this time,” he said within minutes of Mr. Goodale wrapping up his budget speech.
The Conservative support, which ensures that the budget will pass and the government will not fall, now gives the Prime Minister some breathing space.
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