A new government in Canada. Although the Liberals are still in power for the 4th time, they have a minority government and will now be forced to form a government with one of the other existing parties, most likely the New Democrats....
PostPosted:Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:28 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>For those who do not quite understand the politics behind this: The Liberals hold 137 of 308 seats, which is the most of any of the parties by a good number. However, because they do not hold more than half the seats they will not be able to make any decisions without having to deal with the oposition parties. For example, they might make a deal with the New Democrats who hold 22 seats (which would give the Liberals 159, more than half of 308), but this will force them to adopt NDP policies in order to make that alliance between them; this happened before, and that is why we have our current Health Care system (of course now technology is vastly improved and more expensive); Paul Martin promised to greatly lower waiting time, the NDP will work with him and force him to do just that, or else likely Martin will be screwed on many of the policies he would wish to implement. The NDP is also much more a party for the people, so should the Liberals back down on any of their promises, then it will probably drive support away from them and into the NDP.
The Conservatives, they are essentially enemies of the Liberals, they hold 91 of the 308 seats and are second place. They were all set to win the election, the party was formed by the merger of two other parties, The Progressive Conservatives (a very left party) and the Reform party (a very right party). If they kept all their voters, they would have won, however, due to Stephen Harper's radical comments some of which include wanting to double the military budget, wanting to shrink down the government by cutting taxes and spending, and even remarks such as "We are heavily against child pornography and will toughen laws upon it" something that was completely unrelated and irrelivant to what Canadians care about, child pornography is not at all an issue in this country (as it might be in some places like Japan, Russia, South America, and Southern Asia), and Paul Martin just said "Every party here is against child pornography, do you really believe that anyone here would not be?"; essentially the comment made by Harper (Conservative candidate) was like "We're against murder", everyone is against murder; anyways, the media is saying that it was his child pornography statement that made Canadians feel that he was too radical and wasn't as in touch with Canadians as other parties. The other theory (by the Conservatives) is that the Conservative Party has been around since the merger in March, and that the Liberals took advantage of this by having an election at the end of June to sabatoge them; this theory is quite ridiculous for one reason, the Conservatives have lost support over the past month, they were ahead in the polls at a time, and if voters stuck to their and Progressive Conservative votes, the Conservatives would have won. The Conservatives can't win an election now.
The Conservatives are now seen as just the third version of the Alberta born party, first called "The Reform Party" then they changed their name to "The Canadian Alliance" by attracting a few people from other parties, and now they call themselves "The Conservatives" which they did by absorbing the Progressive Conservative Party. They're an old party, just with a new name. Many of the Progressive Conservative candidates left the party at the merger and became Liberal candidates; that was a fairly strong statement.
My opinion: The Liberal Party will be in power for a long time, but I believe that the NDP will only grow from heere, in 5 more years they might have as many as 50 seats, the popular vote showed that they had a fairly large support throughout the country.</div>
The Conservatives, they are essentially enemies of the Liberals, they hold 91 of the 308 seats and are second place. They were all set to win the election, the party was formed by the merger of two other parties, The Progressive Conservatives (a very left party) and the Reform party (a very right party). If they kept all their voters, they would have won, however, due to Stephen Harper's radical comments some of which include wanting to double the military budget, wanting to shrink down the government by cutting taxes and spending, and even remarks such as "We are heavily against child pornography and will toughen laws upon it" something that was completely unrelated and irrelivant to what Canadians care about, child pornography is not at all an issue in this country (as it might be in some places like Japan, Russia, South America, and Southern Asia), and Paul Martin just said "Every party here is against child pornography, do you really believe that anyone here would not be?"; essentially the comment made by Harper (Conservative candidate) was like "We're against murder", everyone is against murder; anyways, the media is saying that it was his child pornography statement that made Canadians feel that he was too radical and wasn't as in touch with Canadians as other parties. The other theory (by the Conservatives) is that the Conservative Party has been around since the merger in March, and that the Liberals took advantage of this by having an election at the end of June to sabatoge them; this theory is quite ridiculous for one reason, the Conservatives have lost support over the past month, they were ahead in the polls at a time, and if voters stuck to their and Progressive Conservative votes, the Conservatives would have won. The Conservatives can't win an election now.
The Conservatives are now seen as just the third version of the Alberta born party, first called "The Reform Party" then they changed their name to "The Canadian Alliance" by attracting a few people from other parties, and now they call themselves "The Conservatives" which they did by absorbing the Progressive Conservative Party. They're an old party, just with a new name. Many of the Progressive Conservative candidates left the party at the merger and became Liberal candidates; that was a fairly strong statement.
My opinion: The Liberal Party will be in power for a long time, but I believe that the NDP will only grow from heere, in 5 more years they might have as many as 50 seats, the popular vote showed that they had a fairly large support throughout the country.</div>